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Dr. Ajinkya N. Tanksale

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT(BHU)

ajinkya.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91 8881764775

Area of Interest:

Applied Operations Research, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Location Science.

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)

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

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