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Prof. Sushil Punia
Prof. Hemant Kumar PhD (IIT Delhi), Operations
Suman and Supply Chain
PhD (IIT Delhi), Operation Management Business
Research Analytics
Prior to joining VGSoM IIT Khargapur, Prof Hemant Prof. Sushil Punia is an Assistant Professor of
Suman was working as an Assistant Professor at Operations Management and Business Analytics
IIM Bodh Gaya. Prof Suman has also worked in the at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. He holds a Ph.D. degree
Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics from IIT Delhi and an M.Tech degree in Industrial
(DITL) at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Engineering and Management from IIT Kanpur.
which is the host of BRT+ Centre of Excellence. He
did Ph.D in applications of Operations Research Sushil has been a research member at Forecasting
& Analytics to Transportation Systems from IIT Laboratory (ForLab), (UK). He received the Ministry
Delhi. He is a Gold-Medal recipient for being the of Urban Development - TRIPP, IIT Delhi research
best graduating B.Tech student in the Department fellowship, and a postdoctoral research fellowship
of Industrial Engineering and Management at NIT from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a
Kurukshetra. He has also received several research recipient of Springer Nature’s Best Paper Award
awards for applying his research to the real-life (XXIII Annual International SOM 2019) and Emerald
problems of pressing concerns and high impact. Literati Award 2018. He has published in reputed
His areas of interest include Operations Research, high-impact research journals like EJOR, IJPR, DSS,
Analytics, Transportation Systems, E-Mobility, CAIE. His research article on Covid19 pandemic,
Smart Cities, Logistics Management, Humanitarian supply chain disruptions, and governmental policy
Logistics
decisions is one of the most downloaded articles
in the European Journal of Operational Research.
Also, it was highly cited in the literature and
covered by media, including Daily Mail (UK), during
the 2020-21 pandemic. Sushil has specific research
interests in building predictive and prescriptive
analytics decision models based on data-driven
optimization and machine (and deep) learning. His
present focus is on operations and supply chain
management, public healthcare delivery, smart
Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya
manufacturing (Industry 4.0), and sustainable
Ph.D. (IIITM, Gwalior) energy transition. His areas of interest include
Business Analytics & Operations and Supply Chain Management; Data
Information System and Decision Sciences; Public Healthcare; Smart
Finance & Accounting Manufacturing; Sustainable Energy; Public Policy.
Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya’s area of interest is
Business Analytics. Prof. Bhattacharya is proficient
in R and Python software. Prof. Bhattacharya can
handle complex business analytics problems with
varied applications.

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