Milind Sohoni

Milind Sohoni is a Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. He also serves as the Deputy Dean, Faculty Development. His other academic appointments include visiting positions at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, IL.

Professor Sohoni’s research interests span large-scale stochastic airline optimization, supply chain analytics, healthcare delivery and nonprofit operations management in resource constrained settings. His areas of expertise include large-scale computational optimization, stochastic network design, combinatorial optimization, empirical modeling, and game theoretic analysis. He has published several research articles in globally recognized, top-tier, academic journals. He works with non-profit, and private, organizations on research projects and has received major grants for his research work. He has also received excellence in research awards from academic and practitioner societies. He serves as an associate editor for leading academic journals in operations management.

Professor Sohoni teaches courses on supply chain management, decision models and optimization, revenue management and pricing, and decision making under uncertainty.

Professor Sohoni has several years of corporate experience in consulting and research. Prior to joining ISB, he was a research advisor with the R&D group at Delta Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, GA. Prior to that, he worked with the Advanced Decision Support Systems group at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, and Ryder Dedicated Logistics, Miami, Florida.

Professor Sohoni holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Education

• PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• MS, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
• BE, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Pune, University of Pune, India

Selected Publications

C. Manchiraju, M. G. Sohoni, and V. Deshpande. “It’s not simply luck: The impact of schedule padding and operational improvements on domestic on-time performance in the US airline industry”. Forthcoming, Production and Operations Management (2023).

A. Ahmed, M. G. Sohoni, and C. Bandi. “Parameterized approximations for the two-sided assortment optimization”. In: Operations Research Letters 50.4 (2022), pp. 399–406.

X. Geng, H. Krishnan, and M. G. Sohoni. “Operational collaboration between rivals: The impact of cost reduction”. In: Production and Operations Management 31 (2022), pp. 1856–1871.

N. Sharma, S. K. Devalkar, and M. G. Sohoni. “Payment for results: Funding non-profit operations”. In: Production and Operations Management 30.6 (2021), pp. 1686–1702.

N. Sharma, S. K. Devalkar, and M. G. Sohoni. “Payment for results: Funding non-profit operations”. In: Production and Operations Management 30.6 (2021), pp. 1686–1702.

S. K. Devalkar, M. G. Sohoni, and P. Arora. “Ex-Post funding: How should a resource-constrained non-profit organization allocate its funds?” In: Production and Operations Management 26.6 (2017), pp. 1035–1055.

S. Deo and M. Sohoni. “Optimal decentralization of early infant diagnosis of HIV in resource-limited settings”. In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17.2 (2015), pp. 191–207.

M. Arikan, V. Deshpande, and M. Sohoni. “Building reliable air-travel infrastructure using empirical data and stochastic models of airline networks”. In: Operations Research 61.1 (2013).

Awards, Grants and Honors

• 2022 PGPMAX (Exec-MBA) Teacher of the Year Award, ISB, India
• 2022 Teacher of the Year Award (Core Courses), Hyderabad Campus, ISB, India
• 2021 Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Engineering, Pune, India
• 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Karnataka High School, Pune, India
• 2020 Professor of the Year Award (Core Courses), Hyderabad Campus, ISB, India
• August 2020 Indian Railways, An Integrated Coal-Freight Optimization Model to Increase Network Throughput, INR 4,600,000
• August 2020 Indian Railways, The Center of Excellence for Analytics and AI at South Central Railways, INR 7,600,000
• 2019 Professor of the Year Award (Core Courses), Hyderabad Campus, ISB, India
• 2018 Outstanding Service Award, Steering Committee Member, ISB-POMS International Workshop, ISB, India
• August 2015 US-India 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Awards, US-India Educational Foundation, $190,000
• 2014-17 Outstanding Service Award, ISB-POMS International Workshop, ISB, India
• 2013 IBM Faculty Award, Cash prize $10,000
• 2003 Aviation Application Section Best Dissertation Award, First Place, INFORMS
• 2003 George B. Dantzig Best Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, INFORMS
• 2002 Daniel H. Wagner Prize Finalist for Excellence in OR Practice, INFORMS