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Sobhan Sarkar

Indian Institute of Management Ranchi, University of Edinburgh, Jadavpur University, University of Engineering & Management

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6040-6051
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I am currently serving as an Assistant Professor at IIM Ranchi, India in Information Systems & Business Analytics area. I served as a Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF) in the Management Science Division of Business School at the University of Edinburgh, UK (Feb, 2020 - Aug, 2021). I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering of IIT Kharagpur (India), and both ME and BE degrees in the Department of Production Engineering from Jadavpur University (India).

I have a teaching experience of two years and industrial experience of nearly three years as a Senior Production Engineer in the Planning, Production, and Assembly division of a multi-national pump manufacturing company. My domain of research includes theoretical improvement and applications of data analytics using machine learning (ML), data mining (DM), and Operations Research (OR) approaches. In addition, I had my responsibilities in teaching assistance at the departmental level, and national level (NPTEL video lectures), in the national MHRD-funded project & international EPSRC UK project, and in judge-role in the Techno-Management Fest KSHITIJ 2019.

In my other responsibilities, I have been serving as a reviewer in different peer-reviewed top tier journals, including Automation in Construction, Applied Soft Computing, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Safety Science, IEEE Access, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, and International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering. I have been serving as a member of several professional bodies, which are INFORMS, INFORMS Analytics Society, IISE, and IEEE. I have visited different countries, including the USA (2016, 2018), UK (2020-2021), and Singapore (2018) for attending international conferences, academic collaboration, and research works.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Management Ranchi Assistant Professor (Gr-II)
    2021 - Present
  • University of Edinburgh Post-doctoral Fellow
    2020 - 2021
  • University of Engineering & Management Associate Professor
    2019 - 2020
  • Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science & Technology Assistant Professor
    2012 - 2012
  • WPIL Senior Production Engineer
    2009 - 2012

Education

  • Jadavpur University ME
    2012 - 2014
  • Jadavpur University BE
    2005 - 2009

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