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Vipin B
PhD (IIT Madras)
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences
Research Interest
Decision Theory, Behavioral Operations Management, Supply Chain Contracts, Optimization in Operations Management, Sustainable Operations, Healthcare Operations
Office
Room no: 212
Department of Management Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur 208 016, India
Specialization
Decision Theory, Inventory Theory, Supply Chain Management
Education
PhD, IIT Madras, 2017
M.Tech. (Industrial Engineering and Management), NIT Calicut, 2010
B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering), GEC Kozhikode, 2008
Teaching Area
Operations Management
Operations Research
Supply Chain Management
Topics in Decision Theory
Inventory and Supply Chain Theory
Professional Affiliations
Member, INFORMS
Member, IIIE
Selected Publications
Shukla, M., Vipin, B., Sengupta, R. N. (2022) Impact of dynamic flexible capacity on reverse logistics network design with environmental concerns, Annals of Operations Research (forthcoming)
Vipin, B., Amit, R. K. (2021) Wholesale Price versus Buyback: A Comparison of Contracts in a Supply Chain with a Behavioral Retailer. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 162, 107689
Chandra, D., Vipin, B. (2021) On the vaccine supply chain coordination under subsidy contract. Vaccine 39(30), 4039-4045.
Joshi, B. V., Vipin, B., Ramkumar, J., and Amit, R. K. (2021) Impact of policy instruments on lead-acid battery recycling: a system dynamics approach. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 169, 105528
Vipin, B., and Amit, R. K. (2019). Describing decision bias in the newsvendor problem: A prospect theory model. Omega, 82, 132-141
Vipin, B., and Amit, R. K. (2017). Loss aversion and rationality in the newsvendor problem under recourse option. European Journal of Operational Research, 261(2), 563-571
Book Publication Vipin, B., Rajendran, C., Janakiraman, G., Philip, D. (Eds.), Emerging Frontiers in Operations and Supply Chain Management: Theory and Applications, Springer, 2021.
Awards & Fellowships
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, 2015
Best paper award at the DoMS Research Symposium 2016, IIT Madras
Conference Presentations
Referred ConferencesDheeraj Chandra and B Vipin, A Hybrid Contract to Coordinate Rotavirus Vaccine Supply Chain in India, EURO 2021, University of West Attica, Greece
Dheeraj Chandra and B Vipin, Contract analysis for Rotavirus vaccine supply chain in India, EURO ORAHS 2020, University of Vienna, Austria
Deepak Singh Attri and B Vipin, On the competitive newsvendor problem: A prospect theory framework, BOC 2019, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Manish Shukla, B Vipin, and Raghu Nandan Sengupta, Multi-objective reverse logistics network design, EURO 2019, University College Dublin, Ireland
R K Amit, Aniruda S, Rajeev R Tripathi, and B Vipin, Stable allocation of profit in a Bayesian inventory game, EAGT Conference 2017, National University of Singapore, Singapore
B Vipin and R K Amit, Supply chain contracting with behavioral agents: Models and extensions, BOC 2017, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
B Vipin and R K Amit, Bounded rationality and supply chain contracts, TAPMI-Max Planck Winter School on Bounded Rationality 2017, T A Pai Management Institute, India
B Vipin and R K Amit, Loss aversion and rationality in the newsvendor problem under recourse option, MSOM 2016, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
B Vipin and R K Amit, Stochastic reference point and the newsvendor problem, IPDM 2015, WZB Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany
B Vipin and R K Amit, Decision bias in the newsvendor problem: A prospect theory approach, MSOM 2015, The University of Toronto, Canada
B Vipin and R K Amit, Newsvendor problem and pull-to-center effect: A prospect theory approach, BOC 2015, Cornell University, USA
Professional Experience
Project Officer, Center for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, IIT Madras, 2017
Ad-hoc Lecturer, NIT Calicut, 2011-12
In the Media
Research on lead-acid battery recycling
- IIT-K, IIT-Madras conduct study to help reduce lead pollution (The Times of India, September 10, 2021)
- Reducing tax, subsidies to formal recycling sector can help reduce lead pollution: IIT study (The Print, September 07, 2021)
- IIT researchers study policy tools to reduce lead pollution (The Hindu, September 07, 2021)