IIMS PGP Placement 2023-24

Editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management and Editor-in-Chief of the Int. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. He is also co-founder and current Editor of the Int. Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience. Prof. Garza- Reyes has also led and guest edited special issues for journals such as Production Planning & Control, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Int. Journal of Lean Six Sigma, etc. His areas of expertise and interest include general aspects of operations and manufacturing management, business excellence, quality improvement, and performance measurement. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a certified Six Sigma-Green Belt, and has over eight years of industrial experience working as Production Manager, Production Engineer and Operations Manager for several international and local companies in both the UK and Mexico. He is a fellow member of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the Institution of Engineering Technology (MIET). DR. KAIILASH CHOUDHARY Kailash Choudhary is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques area at IIM Shillong. He has obtained his Ph.D from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. He has received master’s in engineering from MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur, in Production & Industrial Engineering and his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Government Engineering College, Ajmer. His teaching interests include Operations management, Operation research, and Supply chain management. His research interests are in the domain of Green supply chain management, Life cycle assessment, Green manufacturing, and Lean manufacturing. DR. KRANTIRADITYA DHALMAHAPATRA Dr. Krantiraditya Dhalmahapatra is working at Indian Institute of Management Shillong as full-time faculty in Operations & Quantitative Techniques. Priorly, he was working in Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, with 6 years of experience focused on bridging the gap between the rapidly advancing technological developments and the safety management systems of organizations through integration of data analytics (DA) and virtual reality (VR). He obtained his B. Tech and M. Tech in Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering from Institute of Technical Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha and Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha respectively. He is Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE 2014) qualified in Mechanical Engineering. His research areas are Industrial Safety Management, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, Operations Management and Multi Criteria Decision Making. He has publications in some reputed journals; Safety Science (Elsevier), Computers & Industrial Engineering (Elsevier), Reliability Engineering & System Safety (Elsevier), Annals of Operations Research (Springer) and Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier).He has served as reviewers in journals; Interactive Learning Environments (Taylor & Francis), Safety Science (Elsevier), Virtual reality and Intelligent hardware (Elsevier) etc. DR. MILAN AGNIHOTRI For close to three decades, I have practiced marketing communications in diverse roles across agency functions – Head of strategy, business lead, creative catalyst, agency solutions integrator, change management leader while continuing to be an academician. It is the latter role which has spurred and motivated my career as a practitioner and learner in the field of Integrated Marketing Communications. As a ‘Client Partner’ in Dentsu International, Malaysia, I am currently leading business growth, strategic solutions, innovations, client satisfaction scores, team building and team re-skilling in the new and emerging business environment realities. My career has spanned key Asian markets – India, China and Southeast Asia, working for leading agencies, viz. Dentsu, Publicis (Leo Burnett), McCann, FCB (Interface), Grey. In academics, I began as a full-time faculty in marketing communications in MICA School Of Ideas, in the initial lap of my career, and this engagement with teaching continues even as I made strides into the industry. I have managed global, regional and in-market marketing communications campaigns of companies like Coca-Cola, McDonalds, TOYOTA, SAMSUNG, Suntory, GSK, Pfizer, Abbott, Omron, Mahindra & Mahindra, ITC, Wipro amongst many others. A number of marketing communication campaigns led by me have received multiple global, regional and in-market awards for excellence on strategy, creativity & innovations, and effectiveness. These awards include the prestigious CANNES LION, EFFIE, AME, APPIES, Dragons Of Asia, Campaign Asia, Marketing Excellence, A+M etc. This apart, as a key industry knowledge resource, I have served as jury lead in various advertising and marketing awards, and jury member of strategy effectiveness and design awards committees. Currently, I am the Jury Lead for Effie Malaysia, 2022. Various industry forums invite me to speak on contemporary topics related to marketing communications. Sharing my industry learning and knowledge with academia has been my passion. currently I am member of the ‘Curriculum Advisory Group’ for the ‘Communications & Media, Faculty of Arts & Design department of University of Canberra (Australia)’ and I have been a visiting faculty/ industry expert for the post graduate courses at IIM Kozhikode, India. As a firm believer and a student of equality, diversity, and sustainability, I am member of Dentsu global team championing ‘sustainability (ESG)’ as the core business practice and platform for differentiating positioning and strategic growth solution. www.iimshillong.ac.in  15 Placement Brochure 2023-2024