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                                    Assistant Professor                                                                         Phone (office): +91 512 259 6647
                                    Department of Industrial & Management Engineering                       Phone (home): +91 512 259 8541
                                    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur                                             Fax:                +91 512 259 7553
                                    Kanpur-208016, India                                                                   Email:              pmehta@iitk.ac.in

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Research Fellow April, 2004-March, 2005

2010. Retail Shelf Stocking Policy with Supply Driven Demand Uncertainty (with R K Amit).

2010. Supply Contracts with Shelf Space Dependant Demand and Random Uncertainty (with Lokendra Devangan, Kripa Shanker, Sanjeev Swami ).

2009. Retail Shelf Space Allocation Policies with Demand Uncertainty and Inventory Level Dependent Demand (with Lokendra Devangan, Mohit Srivastava and Sanjeev Swami).

2009. A Coordinated Approach to Planning and Scheduling Decisions in Supply Chains with Multiple Supply Modes

(with Rohit Bhatnagar and Chee Chong Teo). International Journal of Production Economics. Accepted (subject to minor revision)

2009. Minimizing Completion Time Variance in Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem (with Pushkar Pandit and Prabha Sharma)

2009. Weighted absolute completion of jobs from mean completion time in single machine and permutation flow shop scheduling environment

(with Anjulika Gupta, Girdhari Mandal, and Prabha Sharma). Manuscript under preparation.

2008. Supply Contracts in Logistics: Case of Publishing Industry (with Niraj Gupta).

Fellow in Management (PhD), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, 2004.

Bachelors of Engineering (Honors) in Mechanical, Jodhpur University, India, 1994

Quantitative Methods for Decision Making (MBA): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Association of Asian Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS), Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur, December 06-09, 2009. .

12th annual conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, December 19-21, 2008.

2nd NTUS-IITK joint workshop in Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, April 5-6, 2008.

3rd Japan-India joint seminar on Production/Quality Control and Micro/Nano Manufacturing Science, Tokyo, March 10-14, 2008.

11th annual conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM), Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, Nashik, December, 2007.

1st NTUS-IITK joint workshop in Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, July 2007.

10th annual conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, December, 2006.

5th annual conference of the Singapore-MIT alliance, Singapore, January, 2005.

7th annual conference of SOM, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India, December, 2003.

6th annual conference of SOM, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India, December, 2002.

5th annual conference of SOM, S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, India, December, 2001.

4th annual conference of SOM, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, December, 2000.

Graduate student supervision

Doctoral:

K. S. Thyagaraj, on-going

Masters:

Rushikesh Kulkarni, 2006. Shelf space allocation models considering inventory level dependent demand.

Mohit Srivastava, 2007. Retail shelf space allocation and inventory policies with uncertain demand.

Aditya Joshi, 2007.Some new heuristics for solving multi-period assignment problems.

Pushkar Pandit, 2008. Minimizing completion time variance in permutation flow shop scheduling problem.

Girdhari Mandal, 2009. Minimizing mean absolute deviation from mean completion time in permutation flow shop scheduling problem.

Prashant Rai, 2009. Impact of aggregating supplies from single supplier to a cluster of producers: opportunities for Third Party Logistics service provider.

Lokendra Devangan, on-going

Ajay Jha, on-going

Trilochan Khambra, on-going

Lokesh Gupta, on-going

Awards and Honors

IIT-Kanpur Senate Citation for Teaching Excellence 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

Best Doctoral Paper Award at the 5th International Conference of SOM, 2001

Professional Activities

Conference Co-chair, 12th Annual Conference of Society of Operations Management, IIT Kanpur, December 19-21, 2008

Ad-hoc reviewer ins:
International Journal of Production Research

International Journal of Production Economics

                                      International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
                                      International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management
                                      International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management

European Journal of Industrial Engineering.

IIMB Review

Memberships:

INFORMS- Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, since 2005.

Society of Operations Management (Life Member)

Administration at IIT Kanpur

Co Coordinator, Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (VLFM) Program

Executive Committee, SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre, since 2006

Faculty Placement Coordinator, 2005-07

Invited Talks

DecisionCraft Analytics, Ahmedabad, 2004

Nanyang Business School Singapore, Seminar Series: Singapore-MIT Alliance, 2004

IIM Ahmedabad, Seminar Course in Operations Management, 2006