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PROF./DR. UTPAL BHATTACHARYA

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE
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BIOGRAPHY: 1.(A) GENERAL INFORMATION: PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA, PhD, FACULTY (OM&QT AREA) , IIM INDORE ( WEB PAGE LINK: https://www.iimidr.ac.in/faculty/full-time-faculty/profile/?id=50) , CONSULTANT, FELLOW PROFESSIONAL, MEMBER & MENTOR IEEE, MENTOR & SILVER MOST ( EARLIER BRONZE MOST) VALUABLE MEMBER OF INFORMS, ELECTED MEMBER OF LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, AFFILIATE PROFESSIONAL ON LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT,, MENTOR PGP STUDENTS OF IIM INDORE, MENTOR IIP STUDENTS OF IIM INDORE, MENTOR MORS, MENTOR IISE FACULTY COUNCIL / ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER (SINCE 09.06.2003), IIM INDORE. ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER HBP., AICTE REPRESENTATIVE, MHRD EXPERT (Vidwan-ID : 48209), ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF APORS-2009 CONFERENCE HELD IN JAIPUR, INDIA. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT. ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF OPSEARCH (ABDC C), THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA. PROF. PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA IS THE AUTHOR OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF HIGH IMPACT FACTOR/A* ELSEVIER JOURNALS. HE IS ALSO THE RECOGNIZED REVIEWER OF ELSEVIER JOURNAL.. HE HAS SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS IN ELSEVIER/SCOPUS JOURNALS. . ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON APRIL 19, 2019 AT AMITY, SINGAPORE CAMPUS ( AMITY GLOBAL INSTITUTE) AMITY UNIVERSITY. EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD MEMBER OF THE JOURNAL PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ((FT 45 PREMIER, BW 20 PREMIER, ABDC A)..HE IS THE SUSTAINING MEMBER OF AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. HE IS ELECTED SECTION COUNCILOR OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION SECTION OF AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION. 1(B)1(B) 1(B).PROF. UTPAL KUMR BHATTACHARYA'S NAME HAS APPEARED IN THE PUBLISHED DONOR LIST OF THE SOCIETIES AS GIVEN IN THE FOLLOWING: (i)     MILITARY OPERATIONS RESEARCH SOCIETY. (ii)   AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION . (iii) THE ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY. (iv)  AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. (v)    IEEE. (vi) AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION. (VII) NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. 2. PARENTAL HOME ADDRESS: PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA, PhD, C/O SHRI ARUN KUMAR BHATTACHARJEE, 29, SASTHI TALA ROAD, P.O.: BUROSHIB TALA, DISTRICT: HOOGHLY, 712105, WEST BENGAL, INDIA. 3. OFFICE ADDRESS AT IIM INDORE: PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA, OM&QT AREA, PRABANDH SHIKHAR, IIM INDORE, 453556, INDORE, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA. 4. OFFICE HOME ADDRESS: PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA, S/O SHRI ARUN KUMAR BHATTACHARJEE, TYPE V-8, PRABANDH SHIKHAR, IIM INDORE, 453556, INDORE, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA 5. HOME ADDRESS AT KOLKATA: BLOCK 6, 1(C), SRIJAN MIDLANDS, 83 JESSORE ROAD SOUTH, 24 PARAGANAS (N), KOLKATA-132.. 5(I). ORCID ID: 5(A) Publons: https://publons.com/author/1540794/utpal-kumar-bhattacharya#profile. 6. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S FAMILY: (A) PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA, PhD, (B) FATHER'S NAME: SHRI ARUN KUMAR BHATTACHARJEE, RETIRED EASTERN RAILWAY (HQ) EMPLOYEE. SHRI ARUN KUMAR BHATTACHARJEE HAS WORKED IN EASTERN RAILWAY FOR MORE THAN 35 YEARS. (C) MOTHER'S NAME: LATE MRS ARATI BHATTACHARJEE. (D) WIFE'S NAME: MRS AYATRI BHATTACHARYA, AYATRI IS ASSOCIATED AS A VOLUNTEER MUSIC TEACHER, AN EXPERT, SINGER, TO SRI SARADA MATH, INDORE, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA. (E) SON'S NAME: MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA, BORN ON 29.03.2007, IS A CLASS VII STUDENT OF THE EMERALD HEIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, INDORE, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS NTSE GOLD MEDALIST IN 2014,15,16, NSTSE GOLD MEDALIST IN 2015, IMO SILVER MEDALIST IN 2015, IMO BRONZE MEDALIST IN 2017, IMO SECOND LEVEL IN 2016 (PRIZE WINNER, EXCELLENCE CERTIFICATE), 2017 (EXCELLENCE CERTIFICATE). UTSAV IS 2017-18 NSO ZONAL MEDAL OF DISTINCTION AND CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION WINNER AND HAS QUALIFIED TO SECOND LEVEL.HE IS 2017-18 IMO GOLD MEDAL WINNER AND HAS BEEN QUALIFIED FOR THE SECOND LEVEL. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS MERIT CERTIFICATE WINNER IN 2017-18 IMO AND NSO SECOND LEVEL EXAMINATIONS. IN 2019-20 HE HAS QUALIFIED TO THE SECOND LEVEL IN NATIONAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD. HE HAS ALSO WON SEVERAL MEDALS ON VARIOUS CO-CURRICULAR AND EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN SCHOOL LEVEL COMPETITIONS, PRIZES WON BY MASTER UTSAV IN VARIOUS SPORTS COMPETITIONS IN 2017-18: SILVER MEDAL IN VOLLEYBALL COMPETITION IN THE SCHOOL, BRONZE MEDAL IN THROW BALL COMPETITION IN THE SCHOOL.MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS NSO 2018-19 GOLD MEDALIST (LEVEL 1) AND QUALIFIED TO THE NEXT LEVEL.MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS THE GOLD MEDALIST OF NSO 2018-19 EXAMINATION (LEVEL 1) AND HAS BEEN QUALIFIED TO THE NEXT LEVEL. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS ALSO THE GOLD MEDALIST OF IMO 2018-19 EXAMINATION (LEVEL 1) AND HAS BEEN QUALIFIED TO THE NEXT LEVEL. 7. MARRIAGE: DATE OF MARRIAGE WITH MS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA: 8TH DECEMBER, 2004, DATE OF MARRIAGE REGISTRATION IS 4TH APRIL, 2005 ( EFFECTIVE FROM 8TH DECEMBER, 2004), CERTIFICATE NO: 05/05, FORM NO: 1637. 8. DETAILS ABOUT HIS EDUCATION: PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA HAS RECEIVED HIS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE WITH MATHEMATICS HONOURS FROM CHANDAN NAGORE GOVT. COLLEGE, BURDWAN UNIVERSITY, WEST BENGAL. HE STOOD FIRST IN THE UNIVERSITY IN MATHEMATICS. HE DID MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS AND DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH FROM IIT KHARAGPUR. HE WAS THE RECIPIENT OF NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD IN 1986-87. HE WAS THE RECIPIENT OF CSIR FELLOWSHIP IN 1989. HE WAS ALSO SELECTED IN GATE 1989, IISC-TIFR JEE IN 1989. HE HAS GOT CSIR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE SHIP AWARD IN 1995.. 9. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: PROF. UTPAL HAS BEEN TEACHING IN VARIOUS POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN MANAGEMENT, EXECUTIVE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN MANAGEMENT IN MANAGEMENT SINCE LAST 23 YEARS. HE HAS EXTENSIVELY TAUGHT IN VARIOUS RESEARCH PROGMMES IN MANAGEMENT FOR A LONG TIME.WHILE STUDYING FOR DOCTORAL PROGRAMME AT IIT KHARAGPUR HE TAUGHT OPERATIONS RESEARCH TO FOURTH YEAR MSc STUDENTS AND WAS TEACHING TUTORIAL CLASSES TO B. TECH STUDENTS HE HAS SERVED AS CHAIRMAN AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES AT IIM INDORE. HE HAS SERVED AS PANELIST IN VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE RECRUITMENT BOARDS SINCE LAST 21 YEARS. HE WAS THE FACULTY MENTOR FOR INDUSTRY INTERFACE PROGRAMME IN 2015-16, 2017-18 & 2018-19 (TWO PROJECTS APPROVED) AT IIM INDORE.. 10. INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: PROF. UTPAL HAS MORE THAN 28 YEARS OF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN DECISION SCIENCE/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AREA. HE HAS PUBLISHED VARIOUS ARTICLES IN ABDC AND HIGH IMPACT FACTOR JOURNALS. HE HAS SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS IN ELSEVIER/SCOPUS JOURNALS. PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA IS THE AUTHOR OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF HIGH IMPACT FACTOR/A* ELSEVIER JOURNALS. HE IS ALSO THE RECOGNIZED REVIEWER OF ELSEVIER JOURNAL. HE REGULARLY DEVELOPS VARIOUS RESEARCH BASED COURSES AS PER THE PRESENT NEED OF THE PEOPLE AND INDUSTRY AND TEACHES IN VARIOUS POST GRADUATE, EXECUTIVE POST GRADUATE AND VARIOUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES IN MANAGEMENT. PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA’S GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS NUMBER IS 244. ELSEVIER /SCOPUS CITATIONS NUMBER IS 120. HIS WEB OF SCIENCE CORE COLLECTION CITATIONS NUMBER IS 107. 11. RESEARCH STUDENTS : HE IS THE GUIDE/THESIS EXAMINER OF PhD/FELLOW RESEARCH STUDENTS IN THE AREA OF REVENUE MANAGEMENT, IT ANALYTICS, HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT, MARKOV PROCESS, DIGITAL SCM. 1. TWO RESEARCH STUDENTS COMPLETED IN 2016-17: 2. ONE RESEARCH STUDENT COMPLETED IN 2017-18. 3. THESIS EXAMINER OF ONE RESEARCH STUDENT IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT IN 2017-18. 4. THESIS EXAMINER OF ONE EFPM STUDENT ON DIGITAL SCM IN 2019-20. 12. REVIEWER: REVIEWER OF VARIOUS HIGH IMPACT FACTOR ABDC JOURNALS. HE IS ALSO REVIEWER OF ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNUAL MEETING IN OSCM DIVISION SINCE LAST SIX YEARS. HE HAS REVIEWED ARTICLES IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT DIVISION BOTH IN SINCE LAST FIVE YEARS. HE IS THE REVIEWER OF AOM ANNUAL MEETING IN TLC DIVISION. 13. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: (i) Chairman, Personnel and Purchase Committee (Including Complaints, Welfare and Outsourcing ) from April 2006 to April 2009. Indian Institute of Management Indore. (ii) Chairman, OM&QT Area From 6.4.2007 to March, 2011.Indian Institute of Management Indore. (iii) Chairman, Academic Associates Committee at IIM Indore, From 7.6. 2010 to till 2.1.2013. (iv) Member, EPGP Admission Committee (for 2008-2010 Batch), Indian Institute of Management Indore. (v) Member, Engineering and Estate Committee During 2005-2006, Indian Institute of Management Indore. (vi) Member Staff Development and Evaluation Committee April, 2009 to March- 2011, IIMI. (vii) Member of PGP Executive Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore. (viii) Member of EPGP Executive Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore.. (ix) Member of FPM Executive Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore. . (x) Member of Library & Information Science Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore. . (xi) Member of MDP Committee during 2007-2009 at IIM Indore. . (xii) Co-ordinator, Operations Management Area, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 1999-2000. (xiii) Chairman, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Fellow Programme in Management 2013-14. (xiv) Chairman, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Fellow Programme in Management 2014-15. (xv) Member, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Fellow Programme in Management (Industry), 2013-14. (xvi) Chairman, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Fellow Programme in Management (Industry) 2017-18. (xvii) Chairman, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Doctoral Programme in Management, in 2018. (xviii) Member, Area Comprehensive Examination Committee, Doctoral Programme in Management in 2019-20.. (Completed). 14. OVERALL ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE HE HAS SERVED AS CHAIRMAN AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES AT IIM INDORE HE WAS PERSONNEL AND PURCHASE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE TERMS, OM&QT AREA CHAIRMAN FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE TERMS, ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN FOR ONE TERM (TENURE) . HE WAS ALSO EX-OFFICIO COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF VARIOUS OTHER ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES. SERVED AS PANELIST IN VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE RECRUITMENT BOARDS SINCE LAST 21 YEARS..HE WAS THE CHAIRMAN, MEMBER, OF COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION COMMITTEE OF VARIOUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES (FPM, FPM (INDUSTRY)) FOR SEVERAL YEARS. HE IS THE FACULTY COUNCIL/ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER AT IIM INDORE SINCE LAST SEVENTEEN YEARS. 14(A). 15. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS/CHAIRMAN OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBER:: (1) U.K. Bhattacharya, “ Solving K-Obnoxious Facility Location Problem on a Plane” Transportation Management, Vol 1 (2), 2018. (He is the Editorial Board Member of this Journal). (2) U.K. Bhattacharya, A Mathematical Model for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a Plane, International Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 31, No. 3 , 2018. Q3 IN SJR. (3) U.K. Bhattacharya, Teaching Linear Programming, Accepted for Publication in Industrial Engineering Journal, April 3, 2017. (4) Utpal Kumar Bhattacharya, Comments on Advertising Analytics (7Th November, 2017) has appeared in Optimization Society Digest, INFORMS, Dated 7th November, 2017. (5) U.K. Bhattacharya, Mathematical Model and Analysis for Management of Nursing Staff, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting in TN, USA, November13-16, 2016. (6) U.K. Bhattacharya, Analytics for Manpower Planning in Health Care Services, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015 to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, During Nov 1-4, 2015. (7) U.K. Bhattacharya, Teaching Traveling Salesman Problem, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. 8 & Issue No. 3, March 2015, Page 10-13. (8) U.K. Bhattacharya, Advertising Analytics, Shortlisted and accepted for presentation in INFORMS Case and case teaching material competition 2014. The case was presented in INFORMS Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, November 9-12, 2014 (9) U.K. Bhattacharya, OR/MS in Analytics Age and Beyond: A Critical Analysis, Vol. IX & Issue No. 1, January 2016, Page s 45-47. (10) U.K. Bhattacharya, “A center location model with stochastic demand points” ‘International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management”, Vol 21, No. 3, September .2015, pp. 203-21. Q2 IN SJR. (11) U.K. Bhattacharya, “A precise note on Obnoxious or undesirable facility location problem”, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VII & Issue No. 8, August 2014. (12) U.K. Bhattacharya, An Alternative Multi-Objective Planner Formulation of the Multiple Emergency Service Facility Location Problem, IFORS- 13-18 July 2014, Barcelona. (13) U.K. Bhattacharya, A Multi-objective Formulation of the Center Location Problem on a Plane, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VI & issue no 2, PP 9-12, February 2013. (14) U.K. Bhattacharya, A New Center Location Model with Stochastic Demand Points, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS annual meeting 2013 to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during October 6th to 9th , 2013. (15) U.K. Bhattacharya, Algorithms for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a Plane, Presented in INFORMS annual meeting 2012 held in Phoenix, Arizona, 14-17 October, 2012. (16) U.K. Bhattacharya, 2012, Location Models with Stochastic Demand Points, OPSEARCH, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 62-77. Q3 IN SJR. (17) U. K. Bhattacharya., , 2011., Critical Path Calculations for Bi-objective Imprecise Parameter Project Scheduling Problem Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics" Vol 19, No. 1 pp 27-34. (18) .U.K. Bhattacharya, 2011, A Multi-Objective Obnoxious Facility Location Model on a Plane. American Journal of Operations Research ISSN: 2160-8830 (Print) 2160-8849 (Online), Vol 1 (2), 39-45. (19) U.K .Bhattacharya, Pranava Tripathy, Shashank Bhansali, Vivek Edlabadkar, 2011, Investor’s Dilemma- Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol II (24).34-40. (20) U.K. Bhattacharya, 2009, A Chance Constraints Goal Programming Model for the Advertisement Planning Problem, European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, 192, 382-395. Q1 IN SJR. (21) Organizing Committee member & attended, Asia Specific Operations Research Society-2009 Conference held in Jaipur, from December 6-9, 2009. (22) U.K. Bhattacharya, A multiple objective vertex covering obnoxious facility location problem on a plane. Accepted for presentation in the 23rd European Conference of Operational Research held in Bonn Germany, during July 5-8, 2009. (23) Chaired three technical sessions in the international conference on “Globalization and Emerging Economics” held in August 11-13,2008 at IIM Indore. (24) U.K. Bhattacharya, 2007, Fuzzy Programming Algorithm with Linear and Non-linear Membership Functions for a Stochastic Formulation of the Multi-objective Transportation Problem, Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 541-551. (25) U. K. Bhattacharya, Facility Location with Randomly Distributed Destination, presented in the 18th Annual Convension of the "International Academy of the Business Disciplines" conference held in San Diego, California, USA during April 6-9th 2006. (26) U.K.Bhattacharya ,B. Mohanty, J.K.Dev , 2001, Discrete Warehouse Location in Imprecise Environment, , Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 251-258 (27) Bhattacharya, U. and Tiwari, R.N., 1996, Interactive Fuzzy Multi-objective Multi-facility Location Problem, Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, Los Angeles, USA, Vol 4, No. 3, (28) Bhattacharya, U. and Tiwari, R.N., 1994, Impresive Weights in Weber Facility Location Problem, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier, 62, 31-38. Q1 IN SJR. (29) Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N., 1993., Bi-criteria Multi-facility Location Problems in Fuzzy Environment, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier, 56, 145-153. Q1 IN SJR. (30) Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N., 1992. Fuzzy Multi-criteria Facility Location Problem, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 51, 277-287.Q1 IN SJR. (31) Bhattacharya, U, and Khaneja, R.S., August 1998., Optimum Location of an Industry Site: A Case Study, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. 17, No. 8, 7-11. (32) Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N., December 1995. A Multi-criteria Facility Location Problem: An Interactive Approach, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol 14, No. 12, (33) U.K. Bhattacharya, The paper “Fuzzy Multi-criteria Facility Location Problem” Authored by U.K. Bhattacharya, J.R. Rao and R.N. Tiwari has been presented in the 23rd annual convention of Operations Research Sociaty of India held at IIT Delhi in 1990. (34) The paper Bi-criteria Multi-facility Location Problem has been presented in the 24th Annual Convention of ORSI held at I.I.Sc Bangalore in the year 1991. (35) Facility Location Problem in Stochastic Environment has been accepted in the 26th Annual Convention of ORSI held at Dept. of Business Administration, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in the year 1993. (36) Bhattacharya, U., Rao, J.R. and Tiwari, R.N, “Fuzzy Multi-criteria Facility Location Problem”, Published in the monograph “ Fuzzy Multi-objective Decision Making: Methods and Applications” Written by Young-Jou Lai and Chang-Lai Hwang, Springer Verlag, 1994. 16.. RECENT PUBLICATIONS” RECENT PUBLICATIONS: (1) U.K. Bhattacharya, “ Solving K-Obnoxious Facility Location Problem on a Plane” Accepted for publication in Transportation Management, April 4, 2018 (2) U.K. Bhattacharya, A Mathematical Model for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a Plane, International Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 31, No. 3 , 2018. (3) U.K. Bhattacharya, Teaching Linear Programming, Accepted for Publication in Industrial Engineering Journal, April 3, 2017. (4) Utpal Kumar Bhattacharya, Comments on Advertising Analytics (7Th November, 2017) has appeared in Optimization Society Digest, INFORMS, Dated 7th November, 2017. (5) U.K. Bhattacharya, Mathematical Model and Analysis for Management of Nursing Staff, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting in TN, USA, November13-16, 2016. (6) U.K. Bhattacharya, Analytics for Manpower Planning in Health Care Services, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015 to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, During Nov 1-4, 2015. (7) U.K. Bhattacharya, Teaching Traveling Salesman Problem, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. 8 & Issue No. 3, March 2015, Page 10-13. (8) U.K. Bhattacharya, Advertising Analytics, Shortlisted and accepted for presentation in INFORMS Case and case teaching material competition 2014. The case was presented in INFORMS Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, November 9-12, 2014 (9) U.K. Bhattacharya, OR/MS in Analytics Age and Beyond: A Critical Analysis, Vol. IX & Issue No. 1, January 2016, Page s 45-47. (10) U.K. Bhattacharya, “A center location model with stochastic demand points” ‘International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management”, Vol 21, No. 3, September .2015, pp. 203-21 (11) U.K. Bhattacharya, “A precise note on Obnoxious or undesirable facility location problem”, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VII & Issue No. 8, August 2014. (12) U.K. Bhattacharya, An Alternative Multi-Objective Planner Formulation of the Multiple Emergency Service Facility Location Problem, IFORS- 13-18 July 2014, Barcelona. (13) U.K. Bhattacharya, A Multi-objective Formulation of the Center Location Problem on a Plane, Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. VI & issue no 2, PP 9-12, February 2013. (14) U.K. Bhattacharya, A New Center Location Model with Stochastic Demand Points, Accepted for presentation in INFORMS annual meeting 2013 to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during October 6th to 9th , 2013. (15) U.K. Bhattacharya, Algorithms for Locating K-obnoxious Facilities on a Plane, Presented in INFORMS annual meeting 2012 held in Phoenix, Arizona, 14-17 October, 2012. (16) U.K. Bhattacharya, 2012, Location Models with Stochastic Demand Points, OPSEARCH, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 62-77. (17) U. K. Bhattacharya., , 2011., Critical Path Calculations for Bi-objective Imprecise Parameter Project Scheduling Problem Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics" Vol 19, No. 1 pp 27-34. (18) .U.K. Bhattacharya, 2011, A Multi-Objective Obnoxious Facility Location Model on a Plane. American Journal of Operations Research ISSN: 2160-8830 (Print) 2160-8849 (Online), Vol 1 (2), 39-45. (19) U.K .Bhattacharya, Pranava Tripathy, Shashank Bhansali, Vivek Edlabadkar, 2011, Investor’s Dilemma- Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol II (24).34-40. (20) U.K. Bhattacharya, 2009, A Chance Constraints Goal Programming Model for the Advertisement Planning Problem, European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, 192, 382-395. (21) Organizing Committee member & attended, Asia Specific Operations Research Society-2009 Conference held in Jaipur, from December 6-9, 2009. 17. COURSES TAUGHT IN POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME IN MANAGEMENT/EXECUTIVE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME IN MANAGEMENT/FELLOW PROGRAMMES IN MANAGEMENT: (1) QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES -I (2) QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES -II (3) QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES - III (4) DATA ANALYSIS & DECISION MAKING. (5) DECISION ANALYSIS. (6) MANAGING UNCERTAINTY. (7) MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING. (8) STOCHASTIC BUSINESS MODELING (9) COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION & META HEURISTICS. (10) ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION. (11) PREPARATORY QUANTITATIVE SKILL. (12) ADVANCED LOGIC OF LOGISTICS. (13) NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION (14) BUSINESS OPTIMIZATION (15) BUSINESS STATISTICS. (16) PROBLEM STRUCTURING AND DECISION MAKING (17) OPERATIONS RESEARCH. (18) TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS PLANNING (19) INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY & STATISTICS (20) INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE DECISION MAKING (21) PREPARATORY MATHEMATICS, (22) LOGISTICS PLANNING (OFFERED). . 18. TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, ECONOMIC SCIENCES, COMPUTER SCIENCE, DECISION ANALYSIS, LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT. BUSINESS ANALYTICS, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, SIMULATION MODELS FOR BUSINESS, STOCHASTIC PROCESS FOR BUSINESS, STOCHASTIC DECISION PROCESS FOR BUSINESS, BUSINESS ANALYTICS. ADVERTISING PLANNING, MILITARY OPERATIONS RESEARCH, SOCIAL ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT, VEHICLE FLEET MANAGEMENT, OPERATIONS RESEARCH, BUSINESS STATISTICS. 19. MENTOR: HE IS THE MENTOR OF VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES. HE IS ALSO A MENTOR OF POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME IN MANAGEMENT STUDENTS & INDUSTRY INTERFACE PRORAMME STUDENTS AT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE FOR A LONG TIME. 20. CONSULTANT: HE HAS REGISTERED AS A CONSULTANT/MEMBER, OF VARIOUS LEARNED PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS FOR HIS PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT. 21. MEMBERSHIP: HE IS THE ACTIVE PROFESSIONAL MEMBER, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER, ELECTED MEMBER, FELLOW, SENIOR MEMBER, EMERITUS MEMBER OF VARIOUS BUSINESS, HEALTH AND ECONOMICS ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES. 22. EDITORIAL ENGAGEMENT: HE IS THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF OPSEARCH (ABDC C), THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA. . EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD MEMBER OF THE JOURNAL PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (FT 45 PREMIER, BW 20 PREMIER, ABDC A). EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT. REVIEWER OF VARIOUS HIGH IMPACT FACTOR/ABDC JOURNALS. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF HIGH IMPACT FACTOR/A* ELSEVIER JOURNALS. PROF. UTPAL KUMAR BHATTACHARYA IS THE RECOGNIZED REVIEWER OF ELSEVIER JOURNAL HE IS ALSO THE REVIEWER OF ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNUAL MEETING IN VARIOUS MANAGEMENT DISPLINES SINCE LAST FIVE YEARS. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER OF ICORES 2020. 23. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBER : MP-09-CC-8942. 24. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA’S CAR MODEL: MARUTI ALTO, LXI, ENGINE NUMBER IS FBDN4247506. CHASSIS NUMBER IS MA3EYD8SO1184334. _______________________________ PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S SON'S NAME IS MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS A CLASS VI STUDENT OF THE EMERALD HEIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INDORE. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS A CLASS VI STUDENT OF THE EMERALD HEIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INDORE. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS A CLASS VI STUDENT OF THE EMERALD HEIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INDORE.MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS A CLASS VI STUDENT OF THE EMERALD HEIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INDORE.PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S SON IS MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA IS A CLASS VI STUDENT OF THE EMERALD HEIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INDORE. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S SON IS MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S WIFE IS MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA IS A FACULTY OF IIM INDORE. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA IS ASSOCIATED TO SRI SARADA MATH INDORE.. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA, MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA, MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA.PROF.U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA.PROF.U.K. BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA, SHRI A.K. BHATTACHARJEE. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. SHRI A.K. BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD. PROF.U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. SHRI A.K. BHATTACHARJEE. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA.PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBER IS MP-09-CC-8942. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD.. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S WIFE IS MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U. BHATTACHARYA'S SON IS MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S FATHER IS SHRI A.K. BHATTACHARJEE. PROF.U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA.. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S SON IS MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S WIFE IS MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA. SRI. A.K. BHATTACHARJEE.MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA'S WIFE IS MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA.MR. A.K. BHATTACHARJEE. MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA.. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA, SINGER. PROF. U.K. BHATTACHARYA, PhD. MRS. AYATRI BHATTACHARYA, SINGER.MASTER UTSAV BHATTACHARYA.MR. A.K. 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