Dr. S Yamini
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Dr. Yamini S. Faculty of Operations and Analytics, Department of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Trichy - 620015, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: syamini@nitt.edu | yamini@alumni.iitm.ac.in |
BRIEF SUMMARY
Dr. Yamini is a faculty member of Operations and Analytics at the Department of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT). Before joining NITT, she worked at the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIMT) for three years as a faculty in the Operations Management and Decision Sciences area. Yamini holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. (by research) degree from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). She is a graduate of the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering. She has also worked for Cognizant Technology Solutions - Chennai.
She is a consistent performer with distinction throughout her graduation and has published papers in many reputed international journals. She has also presented her research work in various leading international conferences of repute and has received several commendable international awards. She has done projects for industries such as the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Chennai), Rane Brakes & Linings Limited (Chennai) and Integral Coach Factory (Chennai). She is a member of the Production and Operations Management Society (USA), EURO Working Group on Ethics & OR, Operations Research Society of India and Society of Operations Management.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
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Degree |
Institution |
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Ph.D. (Operations Management) |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai |
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M.S. (by Research) |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai |
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B.E. (Industrial Engineering) |
College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Mar 2020 – Present |
Assistant Professor, Operations and Analytics, Department of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli |
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Feb 2017 – Feb 2020
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Assistant Professor, Operations Management and Decision Sciences, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli |
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July 2011 – Jan 2017 |
Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
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Aug 2010 – June 2011 |
Programmer Analyst, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai |
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Ph.D. research work received the “Highly Commended Outstanding Doctoral Research Award 2018” by Emerald Publishers and EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development)
- Received the “Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award” in the 27th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society held at Orlando, USA during May 2016
- Received the “Highly Commended Paper Award” by Emerald Publishers in the 19th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIM Calcutta, India during December 2015
- Master’s Thesis was selected as one of the three finalists for the “EthOR Award” by the EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR in the 26th EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference held at Rome, Italy during July 2013
- Received the “Best Paper Award” in the Doctorial Consortium of the 16th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIT Delhi, India during December 2012
- Recipient of Half-time Teaching and Research Assistantship awarded by MHRD during M.S. and Ph.D.
- Received First graduate Scholarship from the Government of Tamil Nadu
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
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Coordinator of NITT Skill Hub Centre, Sponsored by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship under PMKVY 4.0 scheme
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March 2023 - Present |
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Organising Committee Member of EBSB Yuva Sangamam at NITT |
April - May 2023 |
| Faculty Advisor of Quiz and Debating Club of NITT (Unscripted and Balls by Picasso) | Aug 2025 - Present |
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Faculty advisor of Pixelbug and Filmsociety of NITT |
Aug 2023 - July 2025 |
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Faculty advisor of Music Club of NITT |
July 2021 – July 2023 |
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Seating and Logistics Committee Member of Institute Annual Convocation at NITT |
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Faculty Coordinator of the INACON’23 Business Conclave, NITT |
2023 |
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Faculty Coordinator of the Placement Committee at DoMS, NITT |
July 2022 - Present |
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Faculty Coordinator of the OpEx, Operations Club |
July 2020 - Present |
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Faculty Coordinator of the Corporate Relations Committee, NITT |
July 2020 - Present |
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Faculty Coordinator of the PhD Admissions at DoMS, NITT |
Jan 2021, July 2022, Jan 2023 |
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Faculty Coordinator of the MBA Admissions at DoMS, NITT |
2022, 2023, 2024 |
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Internal Complaints Committee Member at IIMT |
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 |
TEACHING INTERESTS
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
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G. Citybabu, S. Yamini, K. Mathiyazhagan and Armando Papa | Year – 2026 Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0: mapping the competencies from a technology, organization, and environmental perspective Journal: Journal of Knowledge Management [ABDC – A, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2026 Lean Six Sigma in Industry 4.0: framework, enablers, challenges and opportunities Journal: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing [ABDC – A, SCI Indexed] |
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J Antony, A Kaul, S Bhat, M Sony, S Yamini, G Citybabu, EA Cudney | Year – 2026 Operational excellence themes: past, present and future Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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V. Kamala, S. Yamini, M.S. Gajanand and KR Jagadeeswaran | Year – 2025 Investigating the physical ergonomic risks associated with last-mile delivery personnel riding motorcycles Journal: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2025 Essential Skills for Lean Six Sigma 4.0 Implementation: Insights from a TOE-based Mixed-Method Analysis Journal: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management [ABDC – A, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2025 An exploratory study of critical success factors in Lean Six Sigma 4.0 implementation: the people, processes and technology perspective through DEMATEL-ISM approach Journal: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2025 A Qualitative Analysis of Customer Acquisition in Online Fitness Communities Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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V. Kamala, S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2025 Ergonomic Risks affecting the performance of Work-from-Home Employees in IT Industry: A Comprehensive Analysis Journal: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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Pranav Sanjay Sutar, Gaurav Kolte and S. Yamini | Year – 2025 Food supply chain disruptions and its resilience: a framework and review for resilience strategies in the digital era Journal: OPSEARCH [ABDC – C, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2025 The integration of retail supply chain and Industry 4.0 – A Bibliometric analysis and insights for future research Journal: International Journal of Services and Operations Management [ABDC – C, SCI Indexed] |
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Jiju Antony, Arshia Kaul, Michael Sony, Navjit Singh, Priya Vij, Shreeranga Bhat, S. Yamini and Alessandro Laureani | Year – 2024 A study into the themes of quality management: early findings from a global research project and agenda for future research Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2024 Integration and implementation of LSS 4.0 Practices: A perspective from manufacturing and service sector Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2024 Cognitive biases in decision making during the pandemic: Insights and viewpoint from people behaviour Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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Pranav Sanjay Sutar, Gaurav Kolte, S. Yamini, and K Mathiyazhagan | Year – 2024 Food supply chain resilience in the digital era: a bibliometric analysis and development of conceptual framework Journal: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing [ABDC – A, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2024 Lean Six Sigma 4.0–a framework and review for Lean Six Sigma practices in the digital era Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2024 Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 – A Bibliometric Analysis and Conceptual Framework Development. Journal: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2023 Impact of loss aversion on the newsvendor problem: A literature review and insights for the future researchers Journal: OPSEARCH [ABDC – C, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2023 A State of the Art of Lean Six Sigma in the Indian Context – 21st century: A Bibliometric Analysis Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2022 The implementation of Lean Six Sigma framework in the Indian context: a review and suggestions for future research. Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2022 Effect of manufacturer's flexible returns policy in a duopolistic competition Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2022 Supply chain contracts with price and effort dependent demand Journal: International Journal of Services and Operations Management [ABDC – C, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2021 A comparative study of returns contract with no returns contract under monopoly and duopoly settings Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2021 Inventory decision-making biases - A review and suggestions for future research Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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C. Gayathri, V. Kamala, M.S. Gajanand and S. Yamini | Year – 2021 Analysis of operational and financial performance of ports: an integrated fuzzy DEMATEL-TOPSIS approach Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2021 A Literature review on the anomalies observed in the newsvendor ordering decisions Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2020 Behavioral perspective of newsvendor ordering decisions: review, analysis and insights Journal: Management Decision [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2018 Mathematical model to mitigate planning fallacy and to determine realistic delivery time Journal: IIMB management review [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed] |
EDITED BOOK CHAPTERS
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S. Yamini| Year – 2021 Behavioural Operations Management: Trends and Insights. Book title: Emerging Frontiers in Operations and Supply Chain Management: Theory and Applications, Springer, Singapore. |
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R. Vidya, S. Yamini, A.C. Thomas, S. Singh, and S. M. Santhakumar | Year – 2023 An Insight Review on Cognitive Bias for Advanced Driver Assistance System Book title: The Future of Road Transportation, CRC Press |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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G. Citybabu, G and S. Yamini | Year – 2023 Identification of Critical Skills for Successful Implementation of LSS 4.0 Conference: 10th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India |
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G. Citybabu, G and S. Yamini | Year – 2022 Exploration of Lean Six Sigma in the Indian context: A Literature review Conference: 4th International Conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Applications, Anna University, Chennai |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2019 Behavioural aspects of inventory decision-making Conference: 10th POMS-HK International Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2019 Why stakeholders prefer performance-based contracting? Conference: 10th POMS-HK International Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2018 How manufacturers can keep up with retailers while making inventory decisions? Conference: 22nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIM Kozhikode, India |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2017 Effect of returns policy in a duopolistic competition Conference: 11th Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute International Conference, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India |
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S. Yamini | Year – 2017 Influence of returns policy on supply chain coordination Conference: 11th Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute International Conference, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2017 Mechanism design to mitigate the information asymmetry in a construction project Conference: 21st Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, Ahmedabad University, India |
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S. Yamini, Sundara Natarajan and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2016 A deterministic and probabilistic approach of intertemporal choices of individuals Conference: 20th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIITM Gwalior, India |
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S. Yamini, Sundara Natarajan and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2016 An experimental analysis of inter-temporal choices of individuals Conference: SPJIMR - POMS India Chapter Conference on Big Data Analytics for Optimising Supply chains, Mumbai, India |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2016 Mathematical model to mitigate planning fallacy and to determine realistic estimate of time Conference: 27th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management, Orlando, USA |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2015 Mathematical model to mitigate planning fallacy and to determine realistic estimate of time Conference: 19th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIM Calcutta, India |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2015 Economic view of planning fallacy to determine realistic delivery time` Conference: 26th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management, Washington, USA |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2015 Hidden Markov Model to identify the time preference of individuals Conference: 26th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management, Washington, USA |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2014 Contract with agents having imperfect memory and time inconsistent preferences Conference: 18th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Roorkee, India |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2014 Hidden Markov Chain model for Procrastinators Conference: 18th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Roorkee, India |
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S. Yamini, Kavitha, C., and Arshinder Kaur | Year – 2013 Analysis of effort induced demand on returns policies with retail competition Conference: 17th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Madras, India |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2013 Optimal contracts in construction projects to mitigate information asymmetry Conference: 26th EURO - INFORMS Joint International conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2013 A game theoretic framework to mitigate unethical behaviour in construction projects Conference: 26th EURO - INFORMS Joint International conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2012 Value of information for perfect monitoring of the contractor while designing contract in the construction Conference: 16th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Delhi, India |
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S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2012 Model for imperfect monitoring of contractor to reduce information asymmetry on the quality in construction Conference: 16th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Delhi, India |
CHAIR OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS / INVITED SPEAKER
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Yamini. S. | Year – 2020 Conference: 6th Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (INDAM 2020), IIM Tiruchirappalli, India, January 2020 |
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Yamini. S. | Year – 2019 Conference: 10th POMS-HK International Conference, City university of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 2019 |
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Yamini. S. | Year – 2017 Conference: 11th ISDSI International Conference, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India, December 2017 |
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Yamini. S. | Year – 2016 Conference: National Mathematics Initiative Workshop and Conference on Game Theory and Optimisation, IIT Madras, India, June 2016 |
INVITED TALKS / OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
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Guest Sessions at Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli for PGPM and PGPBM Executives, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade for MBA, Delhi, Neyveli Lignite Corporation for Executives, Thiagaraja College of Engineering, Madurai for M.Tech and Thiagaraja School of Management for MBA |
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Doctoral Committee Member, External Expert – College of Engineering Guindy, AU; Vellore Institute of Technology Business School; Amrita School of Business |
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Resource Person for FDP sponsored by ATAL and TIDITSSIA |
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Syllabus Committee Member – College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University |
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Question Paper setting – Anna University |
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Member of the judging panel of many Technical events and symposium |
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
- Life-time member of the Society of Operations Management
- Life-time member of the Operations Research Society of India
- Member of the Production and Operations Management Society
- Member of the EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR