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Prof. Pradip Kumar Ray Prof. Pradip Kumar Ray is presently Emeritus Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) and Adviser, Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He received his PhD (in 1991 in the field of Productivity Engineering and Management of Manufacturing and Service Functions) and MTech (IE & OR) (in 1981) degrees from IIT, Kharagpur, and Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (in 1979) degree from IIEST Shibpur, India. Professor Ray has more than forty one years of diversified experience – eight years as Senior Industrial Engineer/Manager at General Electric Company of India and thirty three years of teaching and research experience at IIT, Kharagpur. He has also served as Visiting Professor at a number of universities abroad, like Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus; USF, Tampa, USA; CQU, Gladstone, Australia; PNGUNRE, PNG; USP, Fiji, etc and trained in Japan on Production Management/JIT-based Manufacturing. He has published one text book titled ‘Product and Process Design for Quality Economy and Reliability’, three edited books by Springer, 22 book chapters, 6 lecture packages, and 162 papers in international and national journals of repute and conferences in the areas of healthcare management, environmental management, productivity measurement and evaluation, quality design and control, TQM, process optimization, ergonomics/human factors engineering, safety engineering and management and other related topics. His areas of interest and research include productivity modeling, quality engineering, ergonomics/human factors engineering, safety engineering, engineering asset management and JIT-based/lean engineering operations management. He has secured substantial number of industry and research grants related to his research areas (30 research and consultancy projects till date). He has supervised 19 PhD scholars in his research areas till date with 4 research students currently working in Health Care System Optimization, Blood Bank Supply and Inventory Control, Service Performance Modelling, and Ergonomic Design of Products and Processes. He has supervised more than 140 MTech and 94 B-Tech projects till date. He has coordinated several outreach training programmes and courses for industries and academic institutions on several topics of his interest (till date 68), including MHRD-sponsored GIAN courses on Engineering Asset Management, Ergonomics/HFE, Production and Operations Management, Quality Engineering in Products and Processes, Environmental Performance of Manufacturing Systems: Modelling and Application; and Sustainable Production Management: Concepts and Practices; and other courses on SPC, TQM, Six Sigma, JIT/Lean Engineering, Materials Management, Environment Management, Workplace Stress Management and Ergonomics and long-duration training programme on Industrial Safety Engineering, and Safety Competence Building (SCB) in Material Handling for Tata Steel. He acted as an investigator in two-year duration UKIERI-sponsored project on ‘Climate Change Issues and Environmental Performance of SMEs in India and the UK’ in collaboration with Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; and as a Chief Expert guiding APO-sponsored project on ‘Research on Institutions Offering Productivity Courses’ for six Asian countries. He acted, as the Principal Investigator, in OFB-sponsored project on ‘Manufacture of Shells for Field Guns with Improved Design and Performance’ under IMPRINT scheme of MoE, Government of India. Currently, he is acting, as Principal Investigator in the projects on (i) Design and Development of Automated Systems for Ergonomic Evaluation of Human-Product Interface in Healthcare Systems under SPARC scheme of Government of India in collaboration with Purdue University, USA; and (ii) Design and Development of Masters Programme on Circular Economy under Going Global scheme, sponsored by British Council in collaboration with Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He organized the international conference, MESH-2016, in December, 2016 at IIT Kharagpur and attended several international conferences and congresses as a keynote speaker and a session chair. Under NPTEL on-line certification course, currently he offers four 12-week 30-hour duration courses on ‘Quality Design and Control’, ‘Management of Inventory Systems’, ‘Automation in Production Systems and Management’ and ‘Human Factors Engineering’ for UG, PG and PhD students and industry professionals. A former Head of ISE department and Dean of VGSoM, Professor Ray is a certified Lead Assessor for ISO-9001 registration, and actively involved in a number of industrial consulting and research projects (31 such projects till date) in his interest areas. He is a member of several professional bodies, such as INFORMS and IIMM, and a Fellow of World Academy of Productivity Sciences (WAPS) and a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and currently, Chairman, Production Engineering Division of its West Bengal State Centre. He is a recipient of prestigious P C Mahalanobis Award of Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) for his outstanding contribution in the field of Engineering.