The principal focus of the Production & Quantitative Methods (P&QM) area is to equip future managers with the necessary tools and techniques that would enable them to take evidence and fact-based decisions in improving business performance in an increasingly data-driven world. In order to achieve that in a business domain, managers should have the ability to assimilate and apply knowledge and skill-sets from diverse areas such as operations management, operations research, statistics and analytics in solving complex business problems. This is where the relevance of this area lie. Faculty members in the P&QM area have expertise in a wide array of disciplines like Operations management, Operations research, Business analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Public policy and Marketing.
The area offer core and elective courses in Operations management, Operations research, and Statistics across all the programmes of the institute. In addition, faculty members offer a wide array of Executive Education Programmes, both on-campus and online, that cater to a large number of working professionals from diverse backgrounds.
Faculty research interests in operations management are on strategic or operational issues related to manufacturing and service planning, supply chain coordination, shop floor scheduling and improving productivity of plant operations, design of operations, technological change and innovation, R&D capabilities, economics of flexible operations and process planning.
In operations research, faculty members have expertise in linear and integer programming, large scale optimization, combinatorial optimization, revenue management and network optimization. Interest in this area is both in modeling as well as in development of algorithms and heuristics for such problems. Typical application areas for research include finance, logistics, and the process industry.
Faculty research interests in statistics include modeling discrete and financial data, survey sampling, finite population inference, biostatistics, longitudinal and survival analysis, Bayesian inference, reliability analysis, time series analysis, statistical genetics, directional statistics, functional data analysis and stochastic processes.
The complete list of courses on offer with a brief summary of each is proved in the "Courses" link in the left under the area title. Names and official contacts of faculty colleagues are provided below.
| P&QM AREA MEMBERS | ||||||
| Sr. No. | Faculty | Office | Telephone | Secretary | ||
| PRIMARY MEMBERS | ||||||
| 1 | Prof. Tathagata Bandyopadhyay | tathagata@iima.ac.in | Wing 01H | +91-79-7152 4808 | Mr. P.G. Uday Bhanu uday@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4891 |
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| 2 | Prof. Dhiman Bhadra | dhiman@iima.ac.in | Wing 10C | +91-79-7152 4893 | Ms. Reji Pillai reji@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4871 |
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| 3 | Prof. Goutam Dutta | goutam@iima.ac.in | Wing 03H | +91-79-7152 4828 | Mr. P.V. Sethumadhavan pvsethu@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4851 |
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| 4 | Prof. Diptesh Ghosh | diptesh@iima.ac.in | Wing 12G | +91-79-7152 4917 | Mr. P.G. Uday Bhanu uday@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4891 |
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| 5 | Prof. Apratim Guha (on long leave) | apratim@iima.ac.in | Wing 01C | +91-79-7152 4803 | Ms. Sujatha Jayprakash sujatha@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4911 |
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| 6 | Prof. Sachin Jayaswal | sachin@iima.ac.in | Wing 08G | +91-79-7152 4877 | Mr. Hiren N. Shah hirens@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4851 |
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| 7 | Prof. Arnab.K. Laha | arnab@iima.ac.in | Wing 15G | +91-79-7152 4947 | Ms. Shylaja Deepak shylaja@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4820 |
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| 8 | Prof. Saral Mukherjee | saralm@iima.ac.in | Wing 13J | +91-79-7152 4929 | Ms. Sujatha Jayprakash sujatha@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4911 |
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| 9 | Prof. Debjit Roy | debjit@iima.ac.in | Wing 03C | +91-79-7152 4823 | Ms. Latha Panicker latha@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4531 |
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| 10 | Prof. Ankur Sinha | asinha@iima.ac.in | Wing 04G | +91-79-7152 4837 | Ms. Rini Vinod rini@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4311 |
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| 11 | Prof. Chetan Soman | chetan@iima.ac.in | Wing 04J | +91-79-7152 4839 | Ms. Kavitha Sudheeran kavithas@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4840 |
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| 12 | Prof. Karthik Sriram | karthiks@iima.ac.in | Wing 08E | +91-79-7152 4875 | Ms. Vanitha Mudaliar vanitham@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4820 |
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| 13 | Prof. Prahalad Venkateshan | prahalad@iima.ac.in | Wing 10D | +91-79-7152 4584 | Ms. Vanitha Mudaliar vanitham@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4820 |
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| SECONDARY MEMBERS | ||||||
| 1. | Prof. Arindam Banerjee | arindam@iima.ac.in | Wing 10H | +91-79-7152 4898 | Mr. P.V. Sethumadhavan pvsethu@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4851 |
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| 2. | Prof. Rama Mohan Turaga | mohant@iima.ac.in | Wing 06G | +91-79-7152 4857 | Mr. Suresh M sureshm@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4891 |
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| 3. | Prof. Sundaravalli Narayanaswami | sundaravallin@iima.ac.in | Wing 15B | +91-79-7152 4942 | Mr. Harshad Parmar harsad@iima.ac.in +91-79-7152 4941 |
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| Area Chairperson | Prof. Karthik Sriram | chr-pqm@iima.ac.in | Wing 08E | +91-79-7152 4875 |
| Area Secretary | Ms. Vinodini Raveendran | areasec-pqm@iima.ac.in | Wing 10A | +91-79-7152 4891 |
Academic Associates
| Sr. No. | Name | Office | Telephone | |
| 01 | Ms. Hetal Rao | Wing 11 K | +91-79-7152 4910 | hetalr@iima.ac.in |
| 02 | Ms. Dhara Shah | Wing 10 K | +91-79-7152 4900 | dharas@iima.ac.in |
| 03 | Ms. Shilpa Nagre | Wing 9 A | +91-79-7152 4881 | shilpan@iima.ac.in |
| 04 | Ms. Madhuri Jha | Wing 4 K | +91-79-7152 4840 | madhurij@iima.ac.in |
| 05 | Ms. Anjali Abichandani | Wing 13A | +91-79-7152 4921 | anjalia@iima.ac.in |
| 06 | Ms. Dhawani Shah | Wing 13K | +91-79-7152 4930 | dhawanis@iima.ac.in |
| 07 | Mr. Jaydeep Gohel | Wing 7K | +91-79-7152 4870 | jaydeepg@iima.ac.in |
| 08 | Ms. Najma Barkat | Wing 16A | +91-79-7152 4951 | najmab@iima.ac.in |
| Adhoc Academic Associate | ||||
| 01 | Mr. Amit Bachani | Wing 7K | +91-79-7152 4870 | amitb@iima.ac.in |