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Avijit Khanra
Fellow (PhD), IIM Ahmedabad
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences
Research Interest
Production & Supply Chain Management,
Scheduling, Stochastic Systems, Optimization
Office
306, Department of Management Sciences
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India
Education
FPM (PhD), Production & Quantitative Methods, IIM Ahmedabad, 2014.
BE (Mechanical), Jadavpur University, 2005.
Teaching Area
Applied Probability
Operations Research
Operations Management
Professional Affiliations
Analytics Society of India
Operational Research Society of India
Society of Operations Management, India
Selected Publications
Khanra, A. (2017). On the impact of suboptimal decisions in the newsvendor model. Operations Research Letters, 45(1), 84-89.
Khanra, A., Soman C., & Bandyopadhyay, T. (2014). Sensitivity analysis of the newsvendor model. European Journal of Operational Research, 239(2), 403-412.
Keshri, S., Gupta, R., & Khanra, A. (2025). Modified ATCR rule for fixed and variable costs of tardiness. Computers and Operations Research, 182.
Awards & Fellowships
Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2021 (by IIT Kanpur)
Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Thesis Award for 2014-15 (by IIM Ahmedabad)
Industrial Finance Corporation of India Thesis Proposal Award for 2012-13 (by IIM Ahmedabad)
Professional Experience
Engineer (Production), Tata Motors Ltd., 2005-2009.
Sponsored Research
- Large-scale Job-shop Scheduling (for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
- Machine Learning Applications in Job-shop Scheduling (for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)