Professional Experience

IIMB Young Faculty Research Chair, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India (August 2025 - Present).
Assistant Professor, Decision Sciences Area, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, India (August 2025 - Present).
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida during Spring 2021 - Spring 2025.
Research Associate, Area of Production & Quantitative Methods, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India during July 2019 - June 2020.
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Regina during May 2016 - August 2016.

Education

Ph.D in Industrial Engineering, University of South Florida, U.S.A., July 2025.
BS-MS in Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Agartala, India, May 2019.
Visiting Student at:
- Department of Mathematics, Central University of Kerala, India during Winter 2016.
- C.R.Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad, India during Summer 2016.

Summer Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, University of South Florida. Awarded in recognition of academic excellence and includes $10,000 stipend and coverage of tuition, fees, and health insurance.
2024 IISE Best Paper Award Finalist in the Operations Research Division.
Paper: A branch-and-price algorithm for emergency humanitarian logistics with a mixed truck-drone fleet with Sasan Mahmoudinazlou, Hadi Charkhgard and Changhyun Kwon.
International Travel Grant from the Office of Graduate Studies, USF to participate in IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2024.
PhD student travel grant to attend INFORMS TSL Conference 2023, Chicago from United States National Science Foundation.
USF Graduate Fellowship during Fall 2020 - Spring 2021. Awarded to selected first year graduate students.
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern. Scholarship from Mitacs promoting research among undergraduate students.

Consultant for Cobblestone Milk Cooperative during Summer 2021.
Developed an optimization software for milk transportation logistics using Julia in collaboration with Sasan Mahmoudinazlou and Changhyun Kwon.

Active Peer Reviewer in Operations Research. Reviewed articles for Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meetings, Transportation Research Record (TRR), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, IISE Annual Meeting 2024, and Optimization Letters.
Tutor for Giunta Middle School, Tampa, through Bright Young Minds Alliance at University of South Florida during Fall 2023 - Spring 2024.
Session Chair for Routing and Consolidation Issues in Logistics at 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis.
Student Officer, INFORMS Student Chapter at USF during Fall 2021 - Summer 2023.
Professional Chair, Tau Beta Pi - Florida Gamma Chapter during Fall 2022.