Inauguration

Invited Talk By Dr. S. SenGupta

Topic: Advanced Analytics:A non-linear ICT Services Innovation

Speaker Details

Dr. S. SenGupta has nearly thirty years of experience in applied research, design, development and management in the industry and six years in scientific computing and academics. At Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (/Tata Infotech Ltd) since 1982, he retired in 2011 but continues the association with TCS. Since 1985, his activities covered leading the company’s research and business in the areas of

• Automation of large scale Planning & Scheduling
• Primary domains: Railways, Shipping, Airlines. Logistics
• Other domains: Retail & Supply Chain
• Manpower Planning & scheduling
• Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Engineering

Currently leading research into the creation of an operational scheduling system for country-wide railway networks, that is several orders of magnitude larger than comparable systems. Investigations include innovations in scenario-aware methods of rapid but high quality optimization of train schedules and the use of super-computing resources. The work involves two TCS research labs and faculty and students from the departments of IE/OR and CS&E, IIT Bombay.
Subjects taught/lectured on at business schools & other academic institutes include

• Service Innovation
• Components of Strategic Management Model
• Capacity & Demand balancing in Services
• Strategic Fit of Product Design to Demand
• Supply Chain optimization
• Optimization, including with Constraint Propagation & Expert Systems
• Generating value from ICT

Invited Talk By Dr. Ashwani Kumar

Topic: A Practical Perspective on Big Data and Analytics: Hype vs Hands-on
This talk will draw heavily from the Big Data and Analytics related Initiatives and Actual use-cases in transport sector, especially Indian Railways

Speaker Details

Dr. Ashwani Kumar, an IRTS officer, is General Manager at Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) where he heads Analytics, Ticketing and Web Application groups. He got his PhD from Singapore -MIT Alliance where he was a doctoral fellow in ‘Future Urban Mobility’ group for four years.
His PhD research focused on application of analytics and optimization techniques to solve Last-mile problem in urban transport.
He was also a research fellow at MIT Transit research lab, USA, and at Future Cities Lab, ETH Zurich. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi and a PG Diploma from IIM Bangalore.
He served as Director/Strategic planning and Director/vigilance in Ministry of Railways for three years besides having served in Operations, commercial and safety functions in various divisions of Indian Railways for over 10 years.
He also designed industrial structures and Off-shore oil platforms during his one-year stint with EIL.
Apart from publishing in academic journals, he writes frequently in Indian express and EPW on a variety of urban and transport related issues.
He has delivered key-note addresses and presented papers extensively in more than 20 countries.
He has also developed and patented the concept of a new system/mode of urban transport called “Caterpillar train” which was rated as the best innovation in Transportation by MIT in 2016, and is widely considered as one of the designs that will change future public transportation. He has been awarded and felicitated at various forums for the same.

Panel Discussion I

Topic:The Impact of Operations Research and analytics on Industry

Dinesh Garg

Faculty, IIT Gandhinagar

T. Chandrashekar

Principal Data Scientist, Target

Vinod Mathur

JDA Software

Jayendran Venkateswaran

Faculty, IEOR

Narayan Rangaraj

Faculty, IEOR

Abhijit Joshi

IDeaS Revenue Solutions

Poster Display and Lunch

Talks By Alumni and Faculty

Dr. Tilak Raj Singh

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India

Topic: Applications of Data Analytics in the Automobile

Talk Details

Automobile industry is going through major transformation and OEMs arechallenged to offer innovative solutions for future mobility. This talkwill highlight few such challenges in engineering and after sales forfuture mobility. Large number of constraints are imposed by engineering,sales, production, and logistics which affects the final customer choices.Operations Research methods are applied to estimate future customer demandin order to support a cost minimized production. Further, predictability ofa quality issue is a top concern for premium automobiles. In order toprevent any field deficiencies, large amount of data is collected andanalyzed to predict eventual failures and to support preventive actions.Some examples will be given.

Dr. Rahul Patil

Faculty, SJMSOM

Topic: Application of Operations Research in Industrial Scheduling

Talk Details

Rahul's team suggests a simple two stage approach to solve a special case of an unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem, faced by an Indian wire drawing firm.

• stage 1: A linear programming model is used to assign jobs to the machines.
• stage 2: In the second stage, the problem specific information is used find an optimal sequence for the assigned jobs on each machine.

On applying the proposed approach to solve the firm’s scheduling firm by using the collected data, results indicate the firm can save valuable time at the bottleneck wire drawing operation by using the proposed scheduling approach.

Prashant Jani

McKinsey & Company

Topic: Operations Analytics at McKinsey & Company - An Introduction

Prashant Jani is knowledge expert with McKinsey & Company and leads Global Supply Chain Center of Competence. He joined McKinsey in 2008.
Jani specializes in network optimization, inventory management and operational logistics problems in supply chain. His core area of interest remains Analytics in supply chain and Operations
Prior to joining the firm, Jani has over three years of experience with i2 Technologies (supply chain company) as a lead developer of Sourcing optimization software.

N. Hemachandra

Faculty, IEOR

Topic: Business Cycles in Some Service Systems

Goutam Sen

Faculty,IIT Kharagpur

Goutam's Bio

Dr. Goutam Sen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. Prior to joining the institute, he earned a Doctorate fromIEOR,IIT Bombay and Monash University under a joint PhD program. He is the youngest faculty in the department and he has demonsrated his research capabilities through publications in prestigiousjournals in the area of Operations Research. He is actively engaged in research that is related to the development of automated tools for better decision making. Some of his ongoing research areas have received attention and cooperation fromforeign universities, other IITs and IIMs, Indian Railway, ISRO,DRDO and Police.

Panel Discussion II

Topic: Current research and development activities in analytics (in particular, IEOR aspects of it) in Indian industry

Arun Kumar

Current: Conduent Labs India
Previous: Xerox Research Centre India

Vaibhav Srivastava

McKinsey & Company

Raj Sharma

JDA Software

Jai Mrug

M76 Anaytics

Ashutosh Mahajan

Faculty, IEOR

Felicitations

Prize Distribution

McKinsey Knowledge Center India will distribute prizes to the winners of Big Buck Challenge

The winners are

Alumni Meet with dinner in the IEOR building