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| Name | Amit Kumar Vatsa |
| Qualification | FPM (IIM Ahmedabad), PGDM (IIM Lucknow), B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur) |
| Contact No. | +91-731-2439483 |
| amitv@iimidr.ac.in | |
| Curriculum Vitae | Download |
- Brief Profile
- Research Publications
Amit is working in Operations Management and Quantitative Methods area at IIM Indore. He specializes in large scale optimization and supply chain management. He has worked for seven years in the industry and has rich experience in logistics, information technology, and oil & gas sectors.
Amit has done FPM from IIM Ahmedabad with a specialization in production & quantitative methods. In his doctoral work, he determined the best sequence of opening facilities under server uncertainty and was awarded the IFCI best thesis award at IIM Ahmedabad. He also has a PGDM from IIM Lucknow and a B.Tech in chemical engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
Post-FPM, Amit worked as a functional architect at JDA software (a leading supply chain solutions company) for three years. He designed solutions for complex business problems in transportation and travel & tourism. Two of the solutions developed by him received the “pillar” award at JDA for their innovative capabilities. He has earlier worked in Engineers India Ltd. as a process design engineer. He worked on greenfield as well and revamp jobs for some of the large refineries and petrochemical plants in India, Kuwait, and Algeria.
Journal Papers
Vatsa, A. K., & Jayaswal, S. (2020 forthcoming). Capacitated multi-period maximal covering location problem with server uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research. (ABDC category A*)
Vatsa, A. K., & Jayaswal, S. (2016). A new formulation and Benders decomposition for the multi-period maximal covering facility location problem with server uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research. 251(2), 404-418. (ABDC category A*)
Working Papers
Vatsa, A.K. and Chandra, S. (2020). Generalized Benders Decomposition for Location-Allocation of Wastewater Treatment Plants. SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3564223
Chandra S, Sakel M. and Vatsa A.K (2020) Capacitated facility location-allocation problem for effluent treatment in an industrial cluster. IIM Indore working paper WP/02/2019-20/OM&QT .
Vatsa, A. K., & Jayaswal, S. (2019). Benders decomposition for capacitated multi-period maximal covering location problem with server uncertainty (No. WP2019-03-03). Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
Vatsa, A. K., & Jayaswal, S. (2015). A new formulation and Benders' decomposition for multi-period facility location problem with server uncertainty (No. WP2015-02-07). Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
Vatsa, A. K., & Ghosh, D. (2014). Tabu Search for Multi-Period Facility Location: Uncapacitated Problem with an Uncertain Number of Servers (No. WP2014-11-03). Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.