RAJIV K.

SRIVASTAVA
Professor of Operations Management
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Sitapur Road, Lucknow, U.P. 226 013

Personal Information
Date of Birth: October 30, 1954
Contact Phone: 0522-2736613 (Office), 0522-2736537 (Home)
Email: rks@iiml.ac.in (Official), rksrivastava@gmail.com (Personal)

Professional Experience
 June 1990 - present: Associate Professor/ Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow in the
Production/ Operations Management area
 August 1989 - June 1990: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, State University of
New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, New York, USA
 September 1985 - August 1989: Graduate Teaching/ Research Assistant, Department of Industrial
Engineering & Operations Research, Virginia Tech
 January 1984 - September 1985: Assistant Professor, NITIE, Bombay
 July 1980 - January 1984: Senior Engineer (Industrial Engineering & Projects), Eicher Goodearth Ltd.
(Alwar & Faridabad divisions)
 July 1978 - July 1980: Assistant Superintendent (Production), Premier Automobiles Ltd., Bombay

Education
 September 1985 - August 1989: Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) with
Manufacturing concentration, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech),
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
 July 1976 - June 1978: Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering, National Institute for
Training in Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai
 July 1971 - June 1976: B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Kanpur

Teaching Areas
 Operations Management and Supply Chain Management (core)
 Manufacturing System Design, Operations Planning & Control, Operations Improvement
Methodologies (electives)
 Advanced Production Inventory Systems, Facilities Design, Factory Physics (doctoral)

Research Areas
 Analysis & Design of Manufacturing Systems, Production Planning & Control, Small Business
Operations Management, and Applications of Quantitative & Computational Methods in Operations
Management
 Several national and international publications and conference presentations based on above research
areas (list available on request)

Management Development Programmes

 IIM Lucknow: Computer Aided Production Management, Japanese Manufacturing Management,
Enterprise Resource Planning: Managerial Perspectives, General Management Programme for Defence
Officers
 NITIE, Mumbai: Production Planning & Control, Plant Layout & Materials Handling, Project
Management with PERT/ CPM

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Student Supervision
 IIM Lucknow: Guided 7 doctoral students (completed), with 2 ongoing; co-guided 3 other doctoral
students (completed) with 3 ongoing. Also guided about 40 students in independent study courses and
dissertations/ projects
 SUNY, Buffalo: Guided 2 Senior Projects (in-company)
 NITIE, Bombay: Guided 4 Final Master’s Projects (in-company)

Academic Service Responsibilities at IIM Lucknow

 Interim Director (2014-15), Dean, Academic Affairs (2005-07); Chairman, Post Graduate Programme
(1993-95); Chairman, Students' Affairs (1997-99)
 Area Chairman, Quantitative & Systems Group (1996-98); Area Chairman, Operations Management
Group (1999 – 2001, 2013-2015)

Professional Service Responsibilities

 Founder-member, Society of Operations Management, a group of Operations Management
academicians and practitioners in India. Served as elected Secretary of the Society for calendar years
2000 and 2001; and as elected President in 2002 and 2003
 Organized First Operations Management Doctoral Consortium and Third Annual Operations
Management Conference, January 2000 at IIM Lucknow
 Organized first ever Faculty Development Programme in Operations Management for the Society of
Operations Management, hosted at IIM Lucknow, September 2009.
 Served on editorial and advisory committees of several national and international societies and
publications

Awards, Honours & Achievements

 Conferred membership of Alpha Pi Mu (U.S. Industrial Engineering Honor Society), 1989
 Selected and served as National Expert for India for the Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) Survey
on Wages, Incentives & Productivity Linkages, 1992-93
 Faculty Advisor of IIM Lucknow student team declared one of the 3 national winners of the “We
Think for India” Society’s Manufacturing Policy competition conducted during 2002-03. The team
was honoured with the trophy and citation by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, in a function at the PM’s residence in New Delhi on 24th May 2003.
 Conferred Lifetime Contribution Award by Society of Operations Management in December 2012.
 Six times recipient of “Best Faculty Award” from PGP students of IIM Lucknow, and conferred
Lifetime Achievement Award in March 2018.