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Vimal Kumar is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan in the Department of Business Administration in the domain of Technological Innovation and Patent Analysis. He has served as Assistant Professor under TEQIP III, an initiative of MHRD, Government of India at AEC Guwahati in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering. Prior to joining AEC, he served as Assistant Professor at MANIT, Bhopal in the Department of Management Studies. He received the PhD degree from IIT Kanpur where he worked in the domain of TQM and Manufacturing Strategy in the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, in the year 2017. He received the Masters degree in Supply Chain Management from the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur in the year 2012. He graduated (BTech) in Manufacturing Technology from JSS Academy of Technical Education Noida, in the year 2010. He has published 15 articles in reputable international journals and presented 15 papers at international conferences. His research paper entitled Time Table Scheduling for Educational Sector on an E-Governance Platform: A Solution from an Analytics Company has been selected for Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) held in Bandung, Indonesia, March 6-8, 2018. He was invited to serve as session chair for “Lean Six Sigma” at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (IEOM-2018) at Bandung, Indonesia and “Quality Control & Management” at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (IEOM-2016) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a contributing author in journals including IJPPM, IJQRM, IJPMB, IJPQM, IJBIS, AJOR, The TQM Journal, Benchmarking: An International Journal, etc., and also a guest reviewer of a reputable journal like IJQRM, TQM & Business Excellence, Benchmarking: An International Journal, and JSIT.

R.R.K. Sharma is HAG scale Professor at the Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Nagpur and fellow of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. He has more than 29 years of experience spanning automobile manufacturing, operations consulting, research and teaching. He has professional experience in TELCO and TVS-Suzuki Ltd, India. His primary research area is location-allocation problems and MRP systems and he also works in the field of manufacturing strategy. His area of interest is operations research, production and operations management, strategic management, manufacturing policy, and computers and information systems. There are several awards and honors to his credit and he holds many administrative responsibilities at IME department, IIT Kanpur. He has completed many sponsored projects. His publications have appeared in IJPE, EJOR, IJPPM, IJAMT, IJPR, IJPPM, IJOR, AJOR, IJOQM, TQM Journal, Benchmarking, IJQRM, IJPQM, IJPMB, IJISE, IJBS, among others. He has till date 162 publications (24 book chapters; 34 international conferences published and 104 journal articles) to his credit in all areas of management nationally and internationally and published two books on MRP systems and management control systems of organizations. He has taught 22 different courses in IME department at IIT Kanpur since 1989. He has supervised 15 PhD students and 11 PhD students are in progress, and he has guided 58 MTech students and 140 special studies projects for MBA final year students.