Amit Kumar Vatsa

Amit completed his fellowship in 2015 from IIM Ahmedabad with specialization in production & quantitative methods. He has done PGDM from IIM Lucknow, and B.Tech in chemical engineering from IIT Kharagpur. His research interest is broadly in the area of Facility Location Problems as they arise in Health Care; Service System Design; and Supply Chain Management. In his doctoral work, he determined the best sequence of opening facilities under server uncertainty and was awarded IFCI best thesis award at IIM Ahmedabad for his work. Post-FPM, Amit worked as a functional architect at JDA software for three years. He worked in pricing and revenue management solutions, focusing primarily on Air Cargo and Leisure travel. Both these products received JDA pillar awards for their innovative solutions. He has earlier worked in Engineers India Ltd as a process design engineer providing consulting services to refineries and petrochemical plants.

Journal Papers

Vatsa, A. K., & Jayaswal, S. (2016). A new formulation and Benders decomposition for the multi-period maximal covering facility location problem with server uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research. 251(2), 404-418.

Working Papers

Vatsa, A. K., & Jayaswal, S. (2015). A new formulation and Benders' decomposition for multi-period facility location problem with server uncertainty (No. WP2015-02-07). Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.

Vatsa, A. K., & Ghosh, D. (2014). Tabu Search for Multi-Period Facility Location: Uncapacitated Problem with an Uncertain Number of Servers (No. WP2014-11-03). Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.