Dr. Sunil Kumar Jauhar holds M. Tech in Industrial Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur and Ph.D. in Operations and Supply Chain Management from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (FKA: Ryerson University), Canada during 2018–19.

Prior to joining IIM Kashipur, he was a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Jammu. His research interests include Digital Operations and Supply Chain, Supply Chain Sustainability, Circular Economy, Industry 4.0, Multi-Objective Optimization. He has contributed several articles in research journals. A few among them are the Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, Business Strategy and the Environment, Computers and Industrial engineering, Journal of Cleaner Production, and edited a special issue in Computers and Industrial engineering.

He is a member of several research societies such as the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). Currently, he is involved in the Indo-Czech joint R&D Project under the India-Czech Scientific and Technological Cooperation Programme. This is a project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Republic of Czech.

Digital Operations and Supply Chain, Supply Chain Sustainability, Circular Economy, Industry 4.0, Multi-Objective Optimization

• Jain, S., Jauhar, S. K., & Piyush (2024). A machine-learning-based framework for contractor selection and order allocation in public construction projects considering sustainability, risk, and safety. Annals of Operations Research,1-43. 
• Singh, M., Jauhar, S. K., Pant, M., & Paul, S. K. (2023). Modeling third-party reverse logistics for healthcare waste recycling in the post-pandemic era. International Journal of Production Research, 1-36. 
• Datta, S., Jauhar, S. K., & Paul, S. K. (2023). Leveraging blockchain to improve nutraceutical supply chain resilience post-pandemic disruptions. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 183, 109475. 
• Gupta, M., & Jauhar, S. K. (2023). Digital innovation: An essence for Industry 4.0. Thunderbird International Business Review, 65 (3), 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22337.
• Jauhar, S. K., Priyadarshini, S., Pratap, S. & Paul, S. K. (2023). A literature review on applications of Industry 4.0 in Project Management. Operations Management Research, 1-28. 
• Jauhar, S.K., Pratap, S., Lakshay, Paul, S. (2023). Internet of things based innovative solutions and emerging research clusters in circular economy. Operations Management Research, 16(4), 1968-1988. 
• Jauhar, S. K., Chakma, B. R., Kamble, S. S., & Belhadi, A. (2023). Digital transformation technologies to analyze product returns in the e-commerce industry. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. DOI 10.1108/JEIM-09-2022-0315 
• Yaspal, B., Jauhar, S. K., Kamble, S., Belhadi, A., & Tiwari, S. (2023). A data-driven digital transformation approach for reverse logistics optimization in a medical waste management system. Journal of Cleaner Production, 430, 139703.
• Jauhar, S. K., Pratap, S., Kamble, S. S., Gupta, S. & Belhadi, A. (2023). A Prescriptive Analytics Approach to Solve the Continuous Berth Allocation and Yard Assignment Problem using Integrated Carbon Emissions Policies. Annals of Operations Research, 1-32. 
• Jauhar, S. K., Jani, S. M., Kamble, S. S., Pratap, S., Belhadi, A., & Gupta, S. (2022). How to use no-code artificial intelligence to predict and minimize the inventory distortions for resilient supply chains. International Journal of Production Research, 1-25. 
• Pratap, S., Jauhar, S. K., Daultani, Y., & Paul, S. K. (2022). Benchmarking sustainable E‐commerce enterprises based on evolving customer expectations amidst COVID‐19 pandemic. Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(1), 736-752. 
• Raj, P. V. R. P., Jauhar, S. K., Ramkumar, M., & Pratap, S. (2022). Procurement, traceability and advance cash credit payment transactions in supply chain using blockchain smart contracts. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 167, 108038. 
• Pratap, S., Jauhar, S. K., Paul, S. K., & Zhou, F. (2022). Stochastic optimization approach for green routing and planning in perishable food production. Journal of Cleaner Production, 333, 130063. 
• Jauhar, S. K., Raj, P. V. R. P., Kamble, S., Pratap, S., Gupta, S., & Belhadi, A. (2022). A deep learning-based approach for performance assessment and prediction: A case study of pulp and paper industries. Annals of Operations Research, 1-27. 
• Jauhar, S. K., Zolfagharinia, H., & Amin, S. H. (2022). A DEA-ANN-based analytical framework to assess and predict the efficiency of Canadian universities in a service supply chain context. Benchmarking: An International Journal,30(8), 2734-2782. 
• Prajapati, D., Jauhar, S. K., Kamble, S. S., & Pratap, S. (2022). Blockchain and IoT embedded sustainable virtual closed-loop supply chain in E-commerce towards the circular economy. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 172, 108530. 
• Jauhar, S. K., Singh, N., Rajeev, A., & Pant, M. (2022). Measuring paper industry's ecological performance in an imprecise and vague scenario: a fuzzy DEA-based analytical framework. Benchmarking: an International Journal, 29(8), 2471-2494. 
• Srivastava, S., Pant, M., Jauhar, S. K., & Nagar, A. K. (2022). Analyzing the Prospects of Blockchain in Healthcare Industry. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2022.
• Jauhar, S. K., Amin, S. H., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2021). A proposed method for third-party reverse logistics partner selection and order allocation in the cellphone industry. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 162, 107719. 
• Dahmani, N., Benhida, K., Belhadi, A., Kamble, S., Elfezazi, S., & Jauhar, S. K. (2021). Smart circular product design strategies towards eco-effective production systems: A lean eco-design industry 4.0 framework. Journal of Cleaner Production, 320, 128847. 
• Murugesan, V. S., Jauhar, S. K., & Sequeira, A. H. (2021). Applying simulation in lean service to enhance the operational system in Indian postal service industry. Annals of Operations Research, 315, 993–1017. 
• Sengazani Murugesan, V., Sequeira, A. H., Jauhar, S. K., & Kumar, V. (2020). Sustainable postal service design: integrating quality function deployment from the customers perspective. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 11(2), 494-505.
• Sengazhani Murugesan, V., Sequeira, A. H., Shetty, D. S., & Jauhar, S. K. (2020). Enhancement of mail operational performance of India post facility layout using AHP. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 11(2), 261-273.
• Jauhar, S. K., Pant, M., & Dutt, R. (2018). Performance measurement of an Indian higher education institute: a sustainable educational supply chain management perspective. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 9, 180-193.
• Jauhar, S. K., & Pant, M. (2017). Integrating DEA with DE and MODE for sustainable supplier selection. Journal of computational science, 21, 299-306.
• Ali, I., Pant, M., Rana, U. S., & Jauhar, S. K. (2017). DEA for measuring the academic performance of a higher educational institute of Uttarakhand, India. Int J Comput Inform Syst Indust Manag Appl, 9, 206-17.
• Jauhar, S. K., Pant, M., & Nagar, A. K. (2017). Sustainable educational supply chain performance measurement through DEA and differential evolution: A case on Indian HEI. Journal of Computational Science, 19, 138-152.
• Jauhar, S. K., & Pant, M. (2016). Genetic algorithms in supply chain management: a critical analysis of the literature. Sādhanā, 41, 993-1017.
• Jauhar, S. K., Pant, M., & Nagar, M. C. (2015). Differential evolution for sustainable supplier selection in pulp and paper industry: a DEA based approach. Comput. Methods Mater. Sci, 15, 118-126.
• Jauhar, S. K., Achwal, V., Singh G. and Sharma, T. K.  (2013). Quality Circle Implementation for New Machine Development in Plastic Industry. Advances in Asian Social Science, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 920-923, ISSN 2167-6429.
• Jauhar, S., Tillasi, P., Choudhary, R. and Sharma, T. K. (2013). Eurozone Crises: A Literature Review. Advances in Applied Economics and Finance (AAEF), vol. 4, no. 2, pp 686-689, ISSN 2167-6348. 
• Jauhar, S., Asthankar, K. M., Kuthe, A.M. (2012). Cost Benefit Analysis of Rapid Manufacturing in Automotive Industries. Advances in Mechanical Engineering and its Applications (AMEA) 2, no. 3, pp. 181-188, ISSN 2167-6380.
• Jauhar, S.  (2012). Value Analysis in Galvanization Process: A Cost Reduction approach. Advances in Mechanical Engineering and its Applications (AMEA) 2, no. 3, pp. 213-220, ISSN 2167-6380.

Projects:

He is involved in the Indo-Czech joint R&D Project under the India-Czech Scientific and Technological Cooperation Programme. This is a project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Republic of Czech

Awards:

1. Received Post Doc Fellowship of Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (FKA: Ryerson University), Toronto, Canada during Jan. 2018 to Jan. 2019.
2. Best Paper Award for the paper “Time Table Scheduling for Educational Sector on an E-Governance Platform: A Solution from an Analytics Company” in the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) held in Bandung, Indonesia, March 6-8, 2018.
3. Got second prize in the event "Junkyard Warz" during technical fest COGNIZANCE 2013, IIT Roorkee, 2013.
4. Stood second among 12 students in the M.Tech program in Industrial Engineering in Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur, India, 2010.

• Chairperson - Executive MBA (Analytics):  May 2023 - till Date
• Chairperson - Operations Management & Decision Sciences Area:  July 2020 - June 2022

• Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Project Management
• Digital Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Global Supply Chain Management
• Supply Chain Modelling and Analysis
• Theories in Operations Management
• Seminar for Research Methods