Prof. Pankaj Dutta is the Shailesh Mehta Chair Professor in Decision Sciences and Operations Research at the Shailesh Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. He holds a PhD from IIT Kharagpur and completed his Postdoctoral research at EPFL, Switzerland. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he served as a lecturer at BITS Pilani and has also been an INSA Fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and a DAAD Visiting Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

He has over 18 years of teaching and research experience in Business Analytics, Data Modelling, and Supply Chain Optimization. Prof. Dutta has served as Associate Editor of OPSEARCH and is a Guest Editor and editorial board member of several international journals. He is also a member of the Central Council of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI).

His research interests include data analytics, machine learning, supply chain and reverse logistics, e-commerce analytics, circular economy, and business simulation. He has published widely in leading journals. He has received the departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, several best paper awards, and research grants, and has been featured in the Stanford University list of the world’s top 2% scientists (single-year ranking).