Prior to this, he was a faculty at IIT Kanpur for seven years. He obtained his Ph.D. in Management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 2004. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of operations strategy, supply chain coordination, contract theory, inventory and logistics management, production planning and scheduling. He has research publications in several international journals. Some of his significant assignments include: Modeling the supply chain of special economic zones in India (collaboration with NTU Singapore), Managing drug discovery process in bio‐pharma supply chains (collaboration with IIM Bangalore and Nottingham University, UK).