• PhD: Industrial & Systems Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2017)
• Master of Engineering: Industrial Engineering, VIT Pune, University of Pune (2012)
• Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, KBP College of Engineering Satara, Shivaji University Kolhapur (2009)

• July 2018 - Present: Assistant Professor, IIT(BHU) Varanasi 
• January 2018 - July 2018 - Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Management, Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey 
• July 2017 - January 2018 - Adjunct Faculty, College of Engineering Pune. 

• Facility Location Problems 
• Railway Crew Planning 
• Home Healthcare Scheduling and routing 
• Food banks - food rescue and re-distribution
• Secondary packaging material supply chains
• Lot sizing 

Courses taught at IIT(BHU) Varanasi 

• Facility planning: layout and location (ME-586)
• Facility location - models and algorithms (ME-DSE 525)
• Deterministic Decision Modeling (ME-DSE 511) 
• Quantitative Methods for Decision Making (MIM 578) 
• Supply Chain Management (ME 573)
• Operations Management (ME 571)
• Design of production Systems (ME 585) 
• Financial Engineering (ME 577)
• Engineering Economics (ME 579)

• Niteesh Yadav, Ajinkya Tanksale. An Integrated Routing and Scheduling Problem for Home Healthcare Delivery with Limited Person-to-Person Contact. European Journal of Operational Research. (Accepted for Publication). 
• Debabrata Das, Priyanka Verma,  Ajinkya N. Tanksale. (2022). Designing a Closed-Loop Supply Chain for Reusable Packaging Materials: A Risk-averse two-stage Stochastic Programming Model using CVaR. Computers & Industrial Engineering. Volume 167, May 2022, 108004. 
• Ankit Chouksey, A K Agrawal, Ajinkya N. Tanksale. (2022). A Hierarchical Capacitated Facility Location-Allocation Model for Planning Maternal Healthcare Facilities in India. Computers & Industrial Engineering. Volume 167, May 2022, 107991. 
• Gyanesh Tripathi, Ajinkya N. Tanksale, Manish Verma. (2022). Optimal location of accident relief facilities in a railway network. Safety Science. 146, 105560. 
• Nistha Dubey, Ajinkya Tanksale. (2022). A study of barriers for adoption and growth of Food Banks in India using hybrid DEMATEL and Analytic Network Process. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 79, 101124. 
• Ajinkya Tanksale, Debabrata Das, Priyanka Verma, M K Tiwari. (2021). Unpacking the Role of Primary Packaging Material in Designing Green Supply Chains: An Integrated Approach. International Journal of Production Economics.  Volume 236, June 2021, 108133. 
• Gedam, Vidyadhar V., Rakesh D. Raut, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Ajinkya N. Tanksale, and Balkrishna E. Narkhede. "Circular economy practices in a developing economy: Barriers to be defeated." Journal of Cleaner Production (2021): 127670.
• Rajveer Singh, Ankit Chowksey, Cherian Samuel, Ajinkya N. Tanksale. (Forthcoming). A Strategic Model for the Closed-loop Supply Chain Network Design for Omni-Channel Retailing. Int. J. of Logistics Systems and Management. 
• Ankush R. kamthane, Prashant Singh, Ajinkya N. Tanksale. (Forthcoming). An Optimization-Simulation Framework for Integrated Inventory and Cash Replenishment Problem of Automated Teller Machines in India. International Journal of Operational Research. (Accepted for publication). 
• Prashant Singh, Ankush R. kamthane, Ajinkya N. Tanksale. Metaheuristics for the distance constrained generalized covering traveling salesman problem. OPSEARCH. (Accepted for publication).
• Ankit Chouksey, A. K. Agrawal, Ajinkya N. Tanksale. An Optimization and Simulation Hybrid Approach for Maternal Healthcare Facility Location-Allocation in the Indian Context. International Journal of Operational Research. (Accepted for publication).
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. (2019). A foodgrain supply chain network design problem under uncertainty: robust model and benders decomposition algorithm with heuristic solution technique", Journal of the Operational Research Society. (Publication online on 20 January 2019).
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. A Hybrid Fix-and-Optimize Heuristic for Integrated Inventory-Transportation Problem in a Multi-region Multi-facility Supply Chain", RAIRO - Operations Research. [Forthcoming.]
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. (2017). Solving Multi-region Multi-facility Inventory Allocation and Transportation Problem: A Case of Indian
  Public Distribution System", Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 110, pg. 175-190.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. (2016). An effective heuristic for multi- period multi-foodgrain inventory transportation problem in India", INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, Vol. 54, Issue 4, pg. 355-379.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. (2015). Implementing National Food Security Act in India: issues and challenges", British Food Journal, vol.
  117, Issue 4, pg. 1315-1335.
• NK Sakhala, Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. (2017). Path anticipation and prioritized conflict free train re-scheduling on a linear network". Inter-
  national Journal of Operational Research. Accepted for publication.

• S. A. Kale, Y. R. Gunjal, S. P. Jadhav, A. N. Tanksale. CFD Analysis for Optimization of Diuser for A Micro Wind Turbine", IEEE
  International Conference on Energy Ecient Technologies for Sustainability,10 th and 12th of April 2013, Nagercoil, India.
• G.P. Bharambe, R.A. Phalke, A. N. Tanksale, M.S. Shaikh, S.A. Kale, LPG Price Hike in India: Awaking Renewable Energy", IEEE Inter-
  national Conference on Energy Ecient Technologies for Sustainability,10 th and 12th of April 2013, Nagercoil, India.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha.\Developing a mathematical model to optimize foodgrains storage and transport for public distribution system
  in India", NITIE - POMS Annual meetings, 18-21December, 2014, NITIE, Mumbai, India.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. \Modeling the inter-state foodgrain inventory transportation problem in Indian PDS", XIX Annual Confer-
  ence of SOM, 11-13 December 2015, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha.\A MIP Model for Multi-Period Multi-Item Capacitated Inventory Transportation Problem of Foodgrains for In-
  dian PDS", CIE 45th annual conference, 28-30 October 2015, Metz, France.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, J K Jha. \A Fix Optimize Heuristic for Capacitated Foodgrain Inventory Multi-modal Transportation Problem in In-
  dian Public Distribution System", INFORMS annual meeting 2016, 13-16 November 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, F. Tevhide Altekin, Abdullah Dasci, Hazal Ercan, Guvenc Sahin. \A strategic model for location and route planning for a
  service parts distribution system" EURO 2018 conference, 8-11 July 2018, Valencia, Spain.
• Ajinkya Tanksale, Rajveer Singh, Cherian Samuel. A Model for Tactical and Operational Planning in an Omni-Channel Retail Supply Chain",
  XXII Annual Conference of SOM, 18-20 December 2019 at IIM Kozhikode, India. 
• Ankit Chouksey, A. K. Agrawal, A. N. Tanksale. A Hierarchal Facility Location-Allocation Model for the Maternal Healthcare in India. XXII Annual Conference of SOM, 18-20 December 2019 at IIM Kozhikode, India.
• Rohit Mishra and Ajinkya Tanksale. Simulation Model for Dynamic Rebalancing in Bike Sharing System with Incentives. XXII Annual Conference of SOM, 18-20 December 2019 at IIM Kozhikode, India.
• Niteesh Yadav, Ajinkya N. Tanksale.Integrated Routing And Scheduling Model For Home Healthcare Delivery With Limited Person-to-Person Contact. SOM Doctoral Colloquium-2020. XLRI-Jamshedpur. 
• Nistha Dubey, Ajinkya N. Tanksale. Multi-Objective Optimization of Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem With Split-Delivery And Split Pickup. SOM Doctoral Colloquium-2020. XLRI-Jamshedpur.

Editorial responsibility

• Associate Editor, OPSEARCH The journal of Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) since January 2021.  https://www.springer.com/journal/12597
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice since February 2018. 

Review for the journals:

• Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
• Computers & Operations Research
• Computers & Industrial Engineering
• Sustainable Production and Consumption
• International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications 
• Journal of Modelings in Management 
• International Journal of Operational Research
• International Journal of Logistics Management

1. INFORMS - The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
2. Life Member - Society of Operations Management, India
3. Life Member - Operations Research Society of India