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Avijit Khanra
Fellow (PhD), IIM Ahmedabad
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences
Research Interest
Inventory control, Supply chain management
Production scheduling, Analysis of queues
Office
Room 306, DoMS Building
Department of Management Sciences
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Currently I am not accepting student interns and research associates.
Education
FPM (PhD), Production & Quantitative Methods, IIM Ahmedabad, 2014.
BE (Mechanical), Jadavpur University, 2005.
Teaching Area
Applied Probability
Operations Research
Operations Management
Professional Affiliations
Operational Research Society of India
Society of Operations Management, India
Selected Publications
Khanra, A. (2017). On the impact of suboptimal decisions in the newsvendor model. Operations Research Letters, 45(1), 84-89.
Khanra, A., Soman C., & Bandyopadhyay, T. (2014). Sensitivity analysis of the newsvendor model. European Journal of Operational Research, 239(2), 403-412.
Awards & Fellowships
Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Thesis Award for 2014-15 (by IIM Ahmedabad)
Industrial Finance Corporation of India Thesis Proposal Award for 2012-13 (by IIM Ahmedabad)
Professional Experience
Engineer/Manager (Manufacturing), Tata Motors Ltd, 2005-2009.
Sponsored Research
Large-scale Job-shop Scheduling (for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)