Ravi Shankar

Dr. Ravi Shankar is the “Amar S. Gupta Chair Professor of Decision Science”. His teaching and research are mainly in broad domain of Operations & Supply Chain Management and Decision Sciences.

Areas of interest: Operations and Supply Chain Management, Decision Sciences, Business Analytics & Big Data, Project Management, Total Quality Management & Six Sigma, Sustainable Freight Transportation, Strategic Technology Management, etc.

Dr. Ravi Shankar is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management Studies (DMS) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi India. He is Fellow of prestigious Indian National Academy of Engineers (FNAE). His research citations exceed 33,175 with an H-index of 77 (February 2022). His areas of interest include Business Analytics & Optimization, Project Management, Sustainability, and Technology Management & Innovation.

Hon. Minister Human Resource Development (Govt. of India), honoured Prof Ravi Shankar with "Outstanding Faculty Award" on March 20, 2018 in the domain of Business, Management and Accounting during 2015-17. This was organised by Career360: Faculty Research Award. The citation presented to him, puts on record that Prof. Ravi Shankar is "The Most Research Proficient Faculty of India for the Year 2018."

On January 20, 2019, Prof Shankar received “Dr R. P. Mohanty Gold Medal for Outstanding Teacher Award” for the year 2018 by Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), Mumbai India.

Prof. Shankar was conferred the prestigious “Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (FNAE)” in December 2017 in the Inter-disciplinary Engineering and Special Fields (Section X).

Prof. Shankar is an outstanding researcher and teacher. On 11th July 2016, he was awarded "The Most Influential Researcher" in the area of Operations Management in India on the occasion of the 3rd International Conference on Green Supply Chain Management, which was organized at Loughborough University at its London campus.

In year 2016, a research paper on "Research Productivity in Management Schools of India during 1968-2015" published in Omega: An International Journal of Management Science ranked Prof. Ravi Shankar as the top-most productive researcher in Business-schools in India by virtue of his number of publications, high citations, etc.

Prof. Ravi Shankar was presented ‘Award of Excellence’ jointly by Rutgers Business School USA and Fox School of Business, Temple University USA at Newark USA in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research project in 2015. In year 2015, he received “PIMG Management Excellence Award” for his eminence in Management Education, Research, Consulting, Training and Education Administration, possessing vast experience of Professional Education Administration and Mentoring Business Organizations and for being an accomplished author on the issues of International Supply Chain Management besides being a distinguished and prominent Academician on the occasion of 6th PIMG International Conference at Gwalior, India.

In year 2012, a White Paper on “Analysis of the Logistics Research in India” by leading researchers in German Universities has ranked Prof. Shankar as the top-most Indian academics in logistics/SCM. In 2012, World Education Congress awarded him the “Best Professor in Supply Chain Management” in Global Awards category for Excellence in Education Leadership & Teaching. In 2011, Prof. Shankar received “Dr. Hari Singh Gour Award for Excellence in Management Teaching” at 5th IES National Teachers' Excellence Awards-2011. He is the recipient of Visiting Scholar Fellowship from Research Council UK to work on a Research Project at Aston Business School, Birmingham. On many occasions (2017, 2011, 2007, 2005 and 2004), he received "Award of Excellence" for his research papers in different research journals, published by Emerald UK.

With a rich industry and teaching experience of over 35 years, Prof. Shankar has provided consultancy to various Industries and Government Departments. His many completed funded projects include, major International funded projects from UKIERI British Council, European Union, and University of Connecticut USA. He has published over 300 research papers and co-authored 09 books, including four most popular text books in the area of Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Management of Technology, and Strategic Management of Technology Innovation.

His research papers have appeared in leading journals like Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E, Computer and Operations Research, Omega: An International Journal of Management Science, Decision Support System, International Journal of Production Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Transportation Research Part A, Computer and Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Production Planning and Control, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, IEEE Transaction in System Man and Cybernetics (Part-C), etc. Recently, two of his co-authored research papers appeared in the top 15 papers published in International Journal of Production Research (2017) and adjusted for “Best Paper Award”.

Prof. Ravi Shankar has trained over 5000 corporate professionals through online and class-room training programs in the area of Business Analytics & Optimization, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Naval Operations Analysis (especially developed for Indian Navy Officers), Six Sigma - Green Belt, Supply Chain Excellence, Production & Operations Management, Advanced Program in Software Engineering & Management (APSEM), Enterprise Resource Planning, etc.

MAJOR AREAS OF INTEREST

• Decision Sciences
• Logistics & Supply Chain Management,
• Operations Management,
• Project Management,
• Business Analytics & Optimization,
• Strategic Technology Management, Knowledge Management,

SPECIALIZED INTERESTS

Logistics & Supply Chain Management (LSCM)

• Supply Chain Analytics, Modelling of SCM, Supply Chain Optimization: (Also authored Text Book on Supply Chain Management)
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management & Circular Economy,
• Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0,
• Management of Risk & Resilience in a Supply Chain,
• Vendor development, Purchasing and buying decisions, Buyer-supplier relationships, e-Procurement, Auction & negotiation in SC,

Operations Management / Industrial Engineering

• Operations Management: Also authored Text Book on Operations & Supply Chain Management
• Project Management,
• Total Quality Management, Six Sigma: Also authored Reference Book on Total Quality Management

Quantitative Techniques for Managerial Decisions

• Decision Sciences
• Conventional Optimization: Quantitative Methods for Managerial Decisions,
• Soft Computing: Neural networks, Fuzzy Modelling, Random Search Optimization Techniques such as: Genetic algorithm, Simulated annealing, Tabu Search, Ant colony optimization, Machine Learning, etc.

Information and Telecommunication Systems Management (ITSM)

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) & Beyond,e-Governance: Also authored Reference Book on Enterprise Resource Planning
• Management of Information/ Telecommunication Systems: System Analysis & Design, Management Information Systems (MIS),
• Software Project Management.

Other Areas of interest

• Strategic Technology Management: Also authored Text Book on "Management of Technology"
• Knowledge Management,