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1 NAME: DR. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA

2. . POSTAL AND E-MAIL ADDRESS.:

Associate Professor, Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques Area, Indian

Institute of Management, Prabandh Shikhar, Indore, MP, 453556, India

E-mail: utpalb@iimidr.ac.in, utpalb@ieee.org

3. EDUCATION

(i) Graduation, Mathematics, 1986, Burdwan University, 1st Class 1st Position in the
University.
(ii) Post Graduation, Mathematics, 1989, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,
1st Class
(iii)PhD, Operations Research, 1996, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

3B.DATE OF AWARD OF PhD DEGREE: 15TH June 1996.

4. TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Courses taught in PGP, EPGP, FPM level.)

(a) COURSES TAUGHT IN PGP, EPGP,FPM LEVEL

(1) Quantitative Techniques-I

(2) Quantitative Techniques-II
(3) Quantitative Techniques-III
(4) Data Analysis and Decision Making.
(5) Decision Analysis.
(6) Managing Uncertainty.
(7) Multi-criteria Decision Making.
(8) Stochastic Business Modeling
(9) Combinatorial Optimization & Meta-heuristics.
(10) Advanced Optimization.
(11) Preparatory Quantitative Skills.
(12) Advanced logic of Logistics.
(13) Non-linear Optimization
(14) Business Optimization
(15) Business Statistics
 (16) Problem Structuring and Decision Making
(17) Operations Research.
(18) Transportation & Logistics Planning

(b) New courses developed and taught across various programmes during (2009-2016)

(1) Data Analysis and Decision Making.

(2) Decision Analysis.
(3) Managing Uncertainty.
(4) Multi-criteria Decision Making.
(5) Stochastic Business Modeling
(6) Combinatorial Optimization & Meta-heuristics.
(7) Advanced Optimization.
(8) Advanced logic of Logistics.
(9) Non-linear Optimization
(10) Quantitative Techniques-I
(11) Quantitative Techniques-III
(12) Transportation & Logistics Planning
(13) Logistics Planning
(14) Business Analysis & Decision Making (Developed to be taught)

Courses taught in doctoral level in management

(1) Combinatorial Optimization & Meta-heuristics. (taught in 2010-11 & 2011-12)
(2) Advanced logic of Logistics. (Taught in 2012-13 & Offered in 2013-14)
(3) Advanced Optimization (Taught in 2010-11 & 2011-12)
(4) Non-linear Optimization ( Taught in 2012-13 & offered in 2013-14)
(5) Operations Research

(d) EXPERIENCE:

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
HE HAS BEEN TEACHING IN VARIOUS POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN
MANAGEMENT, EXECUTIVE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN
MANAGEMENT, AND VARIOUS RESEARCH PROGMMES IN MANAGEMENT
SINCE LAST 20 YEARS. FOR DETAILS PLEASE REFER TO THE WEB PAGE
LINK http://www.iimidr.ac.in/faculty/full-time-faculty/profile/?id=50

(6)
MENTOR: HE IS THE MENTOR IN INFORMS. HE IS ALSO A MENTOR
OF POST GRADUATE MANAGEMENT STUDENTS AT INDIAN
INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE FOR A LONG TIME.
(7) CONSULTANT: HE HAS REGISTERED AS A CONSULTANT/MEMBER,
IN VARIOUS LEARNED PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS FOR HIS
PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT/S.

8. RESEARCH

(a) PRESENT RESEARCH AREAS.

(1) MARKOVIAN DECISION PROCESSES

(2) ECONOMIC SCIENCES
(3) MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(4) HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(5) COMPUTER SCIENCE
(6) INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(7) DECISION ANALYSIS
(8) LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
(9) BUSINESS STATISTICS

(b) INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

HAS MORE THAN 25 YEARS OF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN DECISION
SCIENCE/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AREA. HE HAS PUBLISHED
VARIOUS ARTICLES IN ABDC AND HIGH IMPACT FACTOR JOURNALS.
HE REGULARLY DEVELOPS VARIOUS RESEARCH BASED COURSES AS
PER THE PRESENT NEED OF THE PEOPLE AND INDUSTRY AND
TEACHES IN VARIOUS POST GRADUATE, EXECUTIVE POST GRADUATE
AND VARIOUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES.

(c) NO. OF RESEARCH STUDENTS:

AT PRESENT THREE RESEARCH STUDENTS ARE ASSOCIATED TO HIM.

TWO OF THEM HAVE COMPLETED RECENTLY AND THE REMAINING
ONE IS ON THE FINAL STAGE OF HIS COMPLETION.

(d) REVIEWER:

HE IS THE REGISTERED REVIEWER OF VARIOUS REPUTED INTERNATIONAL

JOURNALS ON BUSINESS, HEALTH AND ECONOMICS. HE IS ALSO A
REVIEWER OF ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNUAL MEETING SINCE
LAST THREE YEARS.
(e) RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

1. U.K. Bhattacharya, Mathematical Model and Analysis for Management of Nursing

Staff, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting in TN, USA,
November13-16, 2016.
2. U.K. Bhattacharya, Analytics for Manpower Planning in Health Care Services,
Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015 to be held in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, During Nov 1-4, 2015.

3. U.K. Bhattacharya, Teaching Traveling Salesman Problem, Industrial Engineering

Journal, Vol. 8 & Issue No. 3, March 2015, Page 10-13.

4. U.K. Bhattacharya, Advertising Analytics, Shortlisted and accepted for presentation in

INFORMS Case and case teaching material competition 2014. The case was presented in
INFORMS Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, November 9-12, 2014

5. U.K. Bhattacharya, Solving K-Obnoxious Facility Location Problem on a Plane

Communicated for Publication.

6. U.K. Bhattacharya, A Mathematical Model for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a

Plane, Accepted for Publication in International Journal of Operational Research,
2015. IJOR is a Grade C Journal in ABDC Listing.

7. U.K. Bhattacharya, OR/MS in Analytics Age and Beyond: A Critical Analysis,

Communicated for Publication.

8. U.K. Bhattacharya, A center location model with stochastic demand points

Accepted for publication International Journal of Operations and Quantitative
Management.2015, Grade C in ABDC ranking.

9. U.K. Bhattacharya, A precise note on Obnoxious or undesirable facility

location problem, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VII & Issue No. 8,
August 2014.

10. U.K. Bhattacharya, An Alternative Multi-Objective Planner Formulation

of the Multiple Emergency Service Facility Location Problem, IFORS- 13-
18 July 2014, Barcelona.

11. U.K. Bhattacharya, A Multi-objective Formulation of the Center Location Problem

on a Plane, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VI & issue no 2, PP 9-12,
February 2013.
12. U.K. Bhattacharya, A New Center Location Model with Stochastic Demand
Points, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS annual meeting 2013 to be held
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during October 6th to 9th , 2013.

13. U.K. Bhattacharya, Algorithms for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a Plane,

Presented in INFORMS annual meeting 2012 held in Phoenix, Arizona, 14-17
October, 2012.

14. U.K. Bhattacharya, 2012, Location Models with Stochastic

Demand Points, OPSEARCH, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 62-77. Grade C
in ABDC ranking

15. U. K. Bhattacharya., , 2011., Critical Path Calculations for Bi-objective

Imprecise Parameter Project Scheduling Problem Journal of Fuzzy
Mathematics" Vol 19, No. 1 pp 27-34.

16. .U.K. Bhattacharya, 2011, A Multi-Objective Obnoxious Facility Location

Model on a Plane. American Journal of Operations Research ISSN: 2160-
8830 (Print) 2160-8849 (Online), Vol 1 (2), 39-45.

17. U.K .Bhattacharya, Pranava Tripathy, Shashank Bhansali, Vivek Edlabadkar,

2011, Investors Dilemma- Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. Industrial
Engineering Journal, Vol II (24).34-40.

18. U.K. Bhattacharya, 2009, A Chance Constraints Goal Programming Model for the
Advertisement Planning Problem, European Journal of Operational Research,
Elsevier, 192, 382-395. Grade A* in ABDC ranking. Impact Factor: 2.038

19. Organizing Committee member & attended, Asia Specific Operations Research
Society-2009 Conference held in Jaipur, from December 6-9, 2009.

20. U.K. Bhattacharya, A multiple objective vertex covering obnoxious facility location
problem on a plane. Accepted for presentation in the 23rd European Conference of
Operational Research held in Bonn Germany, during July 5-8, 2009.

21. Chaired three technical sessions in the international conference on Globalization and
Emerging Economics held in August 11-13,2008 at IIM Indore.

22. U.K. Bhattacharya, 2007, Fuzzy Programming Algorithm with Linear and Non-linear
Membership Functions for a Stochastic Formulation of the Multi-objective
Transportation Problem, Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 541-551.
23. U. K. Bhattacharya, Facility Location with Randomly Distributed
Destination, presented in the 18th Annual Convension of the "International
Academy of the Business Disciplines" conference held in San Diego,
California, USA during April 6-9th 2006.

24. U.K.Bhattacharya ,B. Mohanty, J.K.Dev , 2001, Discrete Warehouse Location in

Imprecise Environment, , Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 251-258

25. Bhattacharya, U. and Tiwari, R.N., 1996, Interactive Fuzzy Multi-objective

Multi-facility Location Problem, Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, Los Angeles,
USA, Vol 4, No. 3,

26. Bhattacharya, U. and Tiwari, R.N., 1994, Impresive Weights in Weber Facility
Location Problem, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier, 62, 31-38, Impact
Factor: 1.749

27. Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N., 1993., Bi-criteria Multi-facility
Location Problems in Fuzzy Environment, Fuzzy Sets and Systems,
Elsevier, 56, 145-153, Impact Factor: 1.749

28. Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N., 1992. Fuzzy Multi-criteria
Facility Location Problem, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 51, 277-
287. Impact Factor: 1.749

29. Bhattacharya, U, and Khaneja, R.S., August 1998., Optimum Location of an

Industry Site: A Case Study, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. 17, No. 8,
7-11.

30. Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N., December 1995. A Multi-criteria
Facility Location Problem: An Interactive Approach, Industrial Engineering
Journal, Vol 14, No. 12,

31. U.K. Bhattacharya, The paper Fuzzy Multi-criteria Facility Location

Problem Authored by U.K. Bhattacharya, J.R. Rao and R.N. Tiwari has been
presented in the 23rd annual convention of Operations Research Sociaty of
India held at IIT Delhi in 1990.

32. The paper Bi-criteria Multi-facility Location Problem has been presented in the
24th Annual Convention of ORSI held at I.I.Sc Bangalore in the year 1991.

33. Facility Location Problem in Stochastic Environment has been accepted in

the 26th Annual Convention of ORSI held at Dept. of Business Administration,
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in the year 1993.
34. Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N, Fuzzy Multi-criteria Facility
Location Problem, Published in the monograph Fuzzy Multi-objective
Decision Making: Methods and Applications Written by Young-Jou Lai and
Chang-Lai Hwang, Springer Verlag, 1994.

9. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. U.K. Bhattacharya, Mathematical Model and Analysis for Management of Nursing

Staff, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting in TN, USA,
November13-16, 2016.

2. U.K. Bhattacharya, Analytics for Manpower Planning in Health Care Services,

Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015 to be held in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, During Nov 1-4, 2015.

3. U.K. Bhattacharya, Analysis for Management of Nursing Staff, Communicated for

Publication, 2015

4. U.K. Bhattacharya, Teaching Traveling Salesman Problem, Industrial Engineering

Journal, Vol. 8 & Issue No. 3, March 2015, Page 10-13.

5. U.K. Bhattacharya, Advertising Analytics, Shortlisted and accepted for presentation in

INFORMS Case and case teaching material competition 2014. The case was presented in
INFORMS Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, November 9-12, 2014

6. U.K. Bhattacharya, Solving K-Obnoxious Facility Location Problem on a Plane

Communicated for Publication

7. U.K. Bhattacharya, A Mathematical Model for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a

Plane, Accepted for Publication in International Journal of Operational Research,
2015. IJOR is a Grade C Journal in ABDC Listing.

8. U.K. Bhattacharya, A center location model with stochastic demand points

Accepted for publication International Journal of Operations and Quantitative
Management.2015, Grade C in ABDC ranking.

9. U.K. Bhattacharya, A precise note on Obnoxious or undesirable facility

location problem, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VII & Issue No. 8,
August 2014.

10. U.K. Bhattacharya, An Alternative Multi-Objective Planner Formulation

of the Multiple Emergency Service Facility Location Problem, IFORS- 13-
18 July 2014, Barcelona.

11. U.K. Bhattacharya, A Multi-objective Formulation of the Center Location Problem

 on a Plane, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VI & issue no 2, PP 9-12,
February 2013.

12. U.K. Bhattacharya, A New Center Location Model with Stochastic Demand
Points, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS annual meeting 2013 to be held
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during October 6th to 9th , 2013.

13. U.K. Bhattacharya, Algorithms for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a Plane,

Presented in INFORMS annual meeting 2012 held in Phoenix, Arizona, 14-17
October, 2012.

14. U.K. Bhattacharya, 2012, Location Models with Stochastic

Demand Points, OPSEARCH, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 62-77. Grade C
in ABDC ranking

15. U. K. Bhattacharya., , 2011., Critical Path Calculations for Bi-objective

Imprecise Parameter Project Scheduling Problem Journal of Fuzzy
Mathematics" Vol 19, No. 1 pp 27-34.

16. .U.K. Bhattacharya, 2011, A Multi-Objective Obnoxious Facility Location

Model on a Plane. American Journal of Operations Research ISSN: 2160-
8830 (Print) 2160-8849 (Online), Vol 1 (2), 39-45.

17. U.K .Bhattacharya, Pranava Tripathy, Shashank Bhansali, Vivek Edlabadkar,

2011, Investors Dilemma- Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. Industrial
Engineering Journal, Vol II (24).34-40.

18. U.K. Bhattacharya, 2009, A Chance Constraints Goal Programming Model for the
Advertisement Planning Problem, European Journal of Operational Research,
Elsevier, 192, 382-395. Grade A* in ABDC ranking

10. STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITY

(a) Administrative Experience:

(i) Chairman, Personnel and Purchase Committee (Including Complaints,
Welfare and Outsourcing ) from April 2006 to April 2009. Indian Institute of
Management Indore.
(ii) Chairman, OM&QT Area From 6.4.2007 to March, 2011.Indian Institute of
Management Indore.
(iii) Chairman, Academic Associates Committee at IIM Indore, From 7.6. 2010 to till
2.1.2013.
(iv) Member, EPGP Admission Committee (for 2008-2010 Batch), Indian Institute of
Management Indore.
(v) Member, Engineering and Estate Committee During 2005-2006, Indian Institute
of Management Indore.
(vi) Member Staff Development and Evaluation Committee April, 2009 to March-
2011, IIMI.
(vii) Member of PGP Executive Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore.
(viii) Member of EPGP Executive Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore..
(ix) Member of FPM Executive Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore. .
(x) Member of Library & Information Science Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM
Indore. .
(xi) Member of MDP Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore. .
(xii) Co-ordinator, Operations Management Area, Xavier Institute of Management,
Bhubaneswar, 1999-2000.
(xiii) Chairman, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Fellow Programme in
Management 2013-14.
(xiv) Chairman, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Fellow Programme in
Management 2014-15.
(xv) Member, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Fellow Programme in
Management in Industry, 2013-14.

.11. OVERALL ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE

HE HAS SERVED AS CHAIRMAN AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN

VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES AT
IIM INDORE PERSONNEL AND PURCHASE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN FOR
TWO CONSECUTIVE TERMS, OM&QT AREA CHAIRMAN FOR THREE
CONSECUTIVE TERMS, ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
FOR MORE THAN ONE TERM. HE WAS ALSO EX-OFFICIO COMMITTEE
MEMBERS OF VARIOUS OTHER ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE
COMMITTEES. SERVED AS PANELIST IN VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND
ADMINISTRATIVE RECRUITMENT BOARDS SINCE LAST 20 YEARS..

12. MEMBERSHIP/ASSOCIATION:
ACTIVE PROFESSIONAL MEMBER, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER,
FELLOW, SENIOR MEMBER, EMERITUS MEMBER OF VARIOUS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

13, PROJECT / TRAINING/ MDP/ CONSULTANCY

(a) Offered MDPs like

 (i) Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization for Logistics
(ii) Stochastic Modeling for Business Decision Making
(iii) Workshop on Business Modeling..
(iv) Workshop on Logic of Logistics.

(b) Taught in various training/ in company programmes at Indian Institute of

Management Indore.

14. . .DATE OF BIRTH : Tenth Day of January, Nineteen hundred and sixty six.

15. OTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES.

(i) Involved in various Post Graduate Programmes interviews

(ii) Involved in various Academic Associates recruitment interviews.
(iii) Served as panel member in various job interviews at Indian Institute
of Management Indore.

The information provided above is true to the best of my knowledge.

(Utpal Kumar Bhattacharya)