Prof. Biswajit Mahanty

Prof. Biswajit Mahanty is a professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of IIT Kharagpur. He has obtained his B.Tech (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering, and his M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management—all from IIT Kharagpur. He has had a rich and varied professional career with six years in industry and more than 26 years in teaching, research, and industrial consulting. His areas of interest are in Operations Research, Systems, Project Management, and Information Systems. He has guided 12 doctoral and more than 100 undergraduate and post-graduate level dissertations. He has also carried out a large number of sponsored research and industrial consulting projects. He has, to his credit, a number of publications in international journals of repute. He is also an author of the book Responsive Supply Chain published by the prestigious CRC press. He has developed a 29-lecture NPTEL course on Management Information System available on youtube. He has also taught at the School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok as a visiting faculty member.