Faculty Profile

Mr. Deepak Kumar Kushwaha

Assistant Professor

Department of Management

School of Management

  deepak.kushwaha@opju.ac.in

  •  Ph.D. in Operational Research (Thesis submitted-March 2025) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur – 2019-2025.
  •  M.Tech. in Industrial Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur – 2014.
  •  BE in Mechanical Engineering from Chhatrapati Shivaji Institute of Technology, Durg, Chattishgarh - 2011.
  •   Worked as an Assistant Professor in Atmiya University, Rajkot, Gujarat, from April 2014 to Dec 2016.
  •  Research and Consultancy Project (2021-2023)-Development of Approaches for Air Transport Loading and Scheduling, CAIR, DRDO. India.
  •  Combinatorial and Large-Scale Optimization
  •  Operations Research, Heuristic- Metaheuristic Approach
  •  Big-Data Analytics
  •  Emergency Logistics, Demand Channel Logistics, Transportation, Vehicle Route Planning, Railway Transportation, Load Palletization
  •  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  •  Human Factor & Ergonomics
  •  Kumar Kushwaha, D., Sen, G. (2025). An integrated modeling approach for multi-class individual crew scheduling in demand channels. Computers & Industrial Engineering. Volume 205, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2025.111168. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360835225003146
  •  Kushwaha, D. K., & Kane, P. V. (2025). Decomposition based approach for multi-trip helicopter routing and scheduling problem in last-mile relief distribution and rescue operations. Operational Research, Springer.25(32). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-025-00905-5.
  •  Kumar Kushwaha, D., Sen, G., Aakash, A., & Thomas, S (2024). Air cargo transportation, loading, and phase-based maintenance service scheduling in demand channel routes. Computers & Industrial Engineering. Volume 195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2024.110341. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360835224004625
  •  Kushwaha, D. K., & Kane, P. V. (2016). Ergonomic assessment and workstation design of shipping crane cabin in steel industry. International journal of industrial ergonomics, 52, 29-39, 625–660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ergon.2015.08.003.
  •  D. K. Kushwaha, G. Sen (2024). Modeling and optimizing aircraft-cargo compatibility and risk exposure challenges in 1-M/M-1 transportation network. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), Thailand, 2024. pp. 1336-1341, doi: 10.1109/IEEM62345.2024.10857189. (IEEE, Xplore)
  •  Deepak Kushwaha, Goutam Sen (2024). Multi-Trip Pickup and Delivery Problem in One to Many and Many to One(1-M/M-1) Transportation Network. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1588-1592, doi: 10.1109/IEEM58616.2023.10406505. (IEEE, Xplore)
  •  Deepak Kushwaha, Goutam Sen, Arnav Akash (2024). Air cargo transportation considering load compatibility issues. In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING ANALYTICS (ICONIEA) 2024, IIT Kharagpur, India. (Paper selected for Springer Book Chapter)
  •  Shubham Kumar, Deepak Kumar Kushwaha, Prasad V. Kane. (2024). Fuzzy FMEA application to improve failure analysis efficiency in a coal handling system. In 2024 international Conference on “Safety, Health and Analytics-Driven Governance for Sustainable Development” (SHADG 2024), IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. (Paper selected for Springer Book Chapter)
  •  Deepak Kushwaha, Goutam Sen (2022). Post-disaster routing and scheduling of helicopters deployed in HADR mission. In 2022 XXV Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM), IIM Indore. MP, India.
  •  Deepak Kushwaha, Goutam Sen (2022). Post Disaster Routing and Scheduling of Helicopters for Last Mile Aid Distribution and Evacuation. In 2022 POMS India International Conference 2022 (pp. 33). ISBN 978-93-5680-503-3, IIM Kozhikod, India.
  •  Nikhil Deepak Kundnaney, Deepak Kumar Kushwaha (2015). A critical review on heat exchangers used in oil refinery. In 2018 3rd Afro-Asian International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology, Bharuch, India. (pp. 1–5).
  •  27th-31st Jan. 2025: Optimizing Transport Network: Recent Advancement and R&D Need for Network Operations and control. IIT Guwahati, India
  •  3rd June-2nd July 2025: Hands on Machine Learning, IISc Bengaluru, India
  •  15th November, 2024: Gurobi-Optimization 202 for Data Scientists
  •  2nd-09th April 2024: 3rd Summer School on Large Scale Optimization. IIT Kanpur, India
  •  15th 2023 Nov: Workshop on Safety Economics, IIT Kharagpur, India
  •  14th to18th December,2015: Computer Aided Design Using SOLID WORKS, Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajkot, Gujarat, India
  •  1st to 8th June, 2015: Universal Human Value Education” workshop organized by Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajkot, Gujarat, India
  •  Expert lecture delivered to Master of Engineering 4th semester students on “Taguchi method” 27th January,2015 at AITS, Rajkot, India.
  •  Delivered teaching pedagogy lecture on “Time Management” for the faculties of Mechanical Engineering Degree and Diploma studies on 24th December, 2015.
  •  Expert lecture on mock interview for final year students from 10/09/2015 to 13/09/2015 related to training and placement.
  •  Selected for IIT Kharagpur Institute Funding for International Conference and Travel Grant for Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)-2024, Bangkok
  •  Selected for IIT Kharagpur Institute Funding for International Conference and Travel Grant for Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)-2024, Singapore
  •  MHRD Fellowship Recipient for M.Tech and Ph.D. programs, Ministry of Education, Government of India.
  •  Qualified for GATE for year 2011 to 2019 consecutively and secured National Institute and Indian Institute for PG and Doctorate program respectively.
  •  Awarded as “Research Output Faculty” by Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajkot on 12th Feb. 2016.
  •  Committee member of NAAC – 2016 at Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajkot, for ASME student chapter, and departmental extension activities.
  •  IEEE Membership (student)
  •  Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Delhi, India.
  •  International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Singapore
  •   Reviewer- International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (IJIE), Elsevier, Science Direct.
  •   Reviewer- Computer and Industrial Engineering (C&I) Journal, Elsevier, Science Direct.
  •   Reviewer- Journal of the Air Transport Research Society, Elsevier, Science Direct.
  •  Reviewer- Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Services industries.
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