Primary Area : Operations and Decision Sciences
Email : sachin@iima.ac.in
Phone : +91-79-7152 4877
Secretary : Hiren Shah
Phone : +91-79-7152 7952
Website : Personal Website
B.Sc. - Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Bhagalpur College of Engineering, 2001 - (Gold Medal)
M.Tech, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 2003
Ph.D, Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2009
METHODOLOGY
Operations Research/Decision Making
Integer Programming
Large-Scale Optimization (Decomposition Techniques)
Game Theory
APPLICATIONS
Operations Management
Operations Analytics
Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India
Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, India
University of Waterloo, Canada
Facility Location
Network Design
Large-Scale Optimization
Stochastic Optimization
Supply Chain Management
Operations - Marketing Interface
Operations - Marketing Interface: pricing, leadtime and capacity decisions
Product Differentiation/Price Discrimination
Current Research:
Facility Location Problems with Stochastic Demand and Congestion
Network Design/Flow
Large Scale Optimization (Decomposition Techniques)
Stochastic Optimization
Game Theoretic Models in Operations/Marketing
Operations-Marketing Interface: Pricing, Leadtime, Capacity Decisions
Professor , Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, June 2021–To date
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, July 2015–May 2021
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, June 2009–June 2015
Visiting Scholar , John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada, May–June 2016; May–July 2017; May-July 2018
Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada, Jan 2007–Dec 2008
Senior Associate Editor, OPSEARCH, Jan 2021- April 2024
Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part E, Jan 2022 - date
Assistant Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, Mar 2003 - Aug 2004
CNG Distribution for Sabarmati Gas Limited, 2017
Position paper on Managing Crowd at Places of Mass Gathering for National Disaster Management Authority, Government of India, 2012-13
Crowd Management for Maa Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, 2010-11
2009 - Best Student Paper Award, Canadian Operational Research Society
2008 - Fraser Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research, University of Waterloo
2008 - Honorable mention, Student Paper Competition, Canadian Operational Research Society
2007 - VP Academic & Provost Award, University of Waterloo
2004 - International Doctoral Student Award, University of Waterloo
2006 - Best Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo
2005 - University of Waterloo Graduate Merit Scholarship
2001-2002 - Indian Institutes of Technology Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Scholarship
2001 - University Gold Medal, Bachelor of Science (Engineering)