Moderator: Narayan Rangaraj
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay
The last technical session of ORSI 2018 will be a Panel Discussion on "Trends of emerging concepts in Operations Research and Management Science". The panelists are a group representing different facets of the hard-to-define area or profession called Operations Research. They are (a) Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, (b) Arvind Kumar, Managing Director of Optym in Bengaluru, (c) R. Badri Narayan, Executive Director, Computers and Information Systems at the Railway Board in Delhi in the Ministry of Railways, India and (d) Girikanth Avadhanula, Director - Supply Chain Solutions, SAP-India, in Pune. The panelists will give their views on how the field of Operations Research may evolve in the near and long term, given the various technological developments, especially in the area of data sciences and exciting possibilities in machine learning, as well as the pull from different professions and application areas. The allied term of Management Sciences gives an organizational flavour to the subject, and this will also be explored through this open discussion.