About me

I have been serving as an Assistant Professor at IIM Ranchi, India and Area Chairperson in the Area of Information Systems & Business Analytics. I served as a Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF) in the Management Science Division of Business School at the University of Edinburgh, UK (Feb, 2020 - Aug, 2021). I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering of IIT Kharagpur (India), and both ME and BE degrees from the Department of Production Engineering of Jadavpur University (India). 

I have teaching and research experience of four years and seven months (approx.) (See: Link) and industrial experience (See: Link) of nearly three years as a Senior Production Engineer in the Planning, Production, and Assembly division of a multi-national pump manufacturing company. My domain of research includes theoretical improvement and applications of data analytics using machine learning (ML), data mining (DM), and Operations Research (OR) approaches. In addition, I had my responsibilities in teaching assistance at the departmental level, and national level (NPTEL video lectures), in the national MHRD-funded project & international EPSRC UK project, and in judge-role in the Techno-Management Fest KSHITIJ 2019. 

In my other responsibilities, I have been serving as an Associate Editor in the journal "Machine Learning with Applications (MLWA)" (Elsevier), and "International Journal of Computers and Applications" (Taylor & Francis) and as an Editorial Board Member in the "Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC)" (Taylor & Francis). I have served as an Editorial Board Member in both the journals, "Social Sciences & Humanities Open" (Elsevier), and "Science Journal of Public Health" (See: Link). My research publications (31 journal papers, till date) (See: Link) appeared in different top-tier journals, including Accident Analysis & Prevention, Computers & Operations Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Cleaner Production, Knowledge-Based Systems, International Journal of Production Research, Safety Science, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. I been serving as a reviewer in 104 peer-reviewed top-tier journals, including Automation in Construction, Applied Soft Computing, and Computers & Industrial Engineering (See: Link). I have been serving as a member of several professional bodies, which are INFORMS, INFORMS Analytics Society, IISE, and IEEE. I have visited different countries, including the USA (2018, 2016), UK (2020-2021), Thailand (2023, 2022, 2018), and Singapore (2024, 2018) for attending international conferences, academic collaboration, and research works.