Ashutosh Sarkar

Prof. Ashutosh Sarkar received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas. He has extensive experience in executive education and management development programs. His areas of interests include Inventory and Supply Chain Optimization, Application of Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Operations Management Problems, Purchasing and Supply Risk Management. He has received international awards for his research and been cited by the academia extensively. Prof. Sarkar has published in Production and Operations Management (Financial Times list of 50 top management journals), International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research: Part E, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Computers & Industrial Engineering etc.

Education

• Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
• Doctor of Philosophy, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Master of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Bachelor of Engineering, Gauhati University

Research Areas

• Supply Chain Management
• Procurement
• Applied Optimization

Other Professional Appointments

• Secretary, Asset Management Society of India
• Independent Member, Society of Operations Management
• National Council Member, Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering (2012-2013).

Academic Positions

• Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode from July 2015 to April 2021
• Assistant Professor, Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from May, 2009 to June, 2015
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now IIT BHU) from October, 2008 to May, 2009.
• Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now IIT BHU) from October, 2004 to October, 2008.
• Lecturer, Department of Industrial & Production Engineering, Institute of Technology, GGU from December, 2002 to July, 2004.

Awards

• Winner of First Prize in Public Sector OR Competition at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015 held at Philadelphia for the paper Distressed Selling by Farmers: Model, Analysis, and Use in Policy Analysis (co-authors: Shivam Gupta, Ganesh Janakiraman, Milind Dawande)
• Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship 2013-14
• BOYSCAST Fellowship 2008-2009 from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (could not visit host university due to personal reasons).
• Best Professor in Supply Chain Management at the World Education Congress 2012 at Mumbai, India.
• Honors (Distinction) in Bachelor of Engineering at Gauhati University