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Milind Sohoni is a Area Leader and Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. He also serves as the Deputy Dean - Hyderabad Campus and Deputy Dean - Academic Affairs. His other academic appointments include visiting positions at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, IL.
Professor Sohoni’s research interests span large-scale stochastic airline optimization, supply chain analytics, healthcare delivery and nonprofit operations management in resource constrained settings. His areas of expertise include large-scale computational optimization, stochastic network design, combinatorial optimization, empirical modeling, and game theoretic analysis. He has published several research articles in globally recognized, top-tier, academic journals. He works with non-profit, and private, organizations on research projects and has received major grants for his research work. He has also received excellence in research awards from academic and practitioner societies. He serves as an associate editor for leading academic journals in operations management.
Professor Sohoni teaches courses on supply chain management, decision models and optimization, revenue management and pricing, and decision making under uncertainty.
Professor Sohoni has several years of corporate experience in consulting and research. Prior to joining ISB, he was a research advisor with the R&D group at Delta Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, GA. Prior to that, he worked with the Advanced Decision Support Systems group at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, and Ryder Dedicated Logistics, Miami, Florida.
Professor Sohoni holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Education
- Ph D (Operations Research), School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Georgia Institute of Technology 2003
- MS (Manufacturing Systems Engineering), The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 1994
- B E (Mechanical Engineering), College of Engineering Pune 1990
Research
Published Papers
Devalkar, Sripad.,Sohoni, Milind.,Arora, Priyank. (2017) "Ex-post funding: How should a resource constrained non-profit organization allocate its funds?", Production and Operations Management , 26 (6), 1035-1055 Bala, Ram.,Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Sohoni, Milind. (2016) "Evergreening and Operational Risk Under Price Competition", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 63 (1) Jain, Aditya.,Sohoni, Milind. (2015) "Should Firms Conceal Information When Dealing With Common Suppliers?", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 62 (1), 1-15 Deo, Sarang.,Sohoni, Milind. (2015) "Optimal decentralization of early infant diagnosis of HIV in resource-limited settings", Manufacturing and Service Operations Management , 17 (2), 191-207 Sohoni, Milind.,Deshpande, Vinayak.,Arikan, Mazhar. (2012) "Building Reliable Air-Travel Infrastructure Using Empirical Data and Stochastic Models of Airline Networks", Operations Research , 61 (1), 45-64 Sohoni, Milind.,Chopra, Sunil.,Mohan, Usha.,Sendil, Nuri. (2011) "Threshold Incentives and Sales Variance", Production and Operations Management , 20 (4), 571 – 586 Sohoni, Milind.,Klabjan, Diego.,Lee, Yu-Ching. (2011) "Robust Airline Scheduling under Block Time Uncertainty", Transportation Science , 45 (4), 451-464 Sohoni, Milind.,Seshadri, Sridhar.,Jain, Aditya. (2011) "Differential Pricing for Information Sharing Under Competition", Production and Operations Management , 20 (2), 235-252 Sohoni, Milind.,Sunil Chopra.,Achal Bassamboo.,Usha Mohan.,Nuri Sendil. (2010) "Threshold Incentives over Multiple Time Periods and the Sales Hockey Stick", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 57 (6), 503-518 Xu, Jiefeng.,Sohoni, Milind.,Lim, Alvin. (2008) "Solving the hierarchical data selection problem arising in Airline Revenue Management", International Journal of Revenue Management , 2 (1), 63-77 Sohoni, Milind.,Ellis Johnson.,T. Glenn Bailey. (2006) "Operational Airline Reserve Crew Planning", Journal of Scheduling , 9 (3), 203 – 221 Xu, Jiefeng.,Sohoni, Milind.,McCleery, Mike.,Bailey, T.. (2006) "A Dynamic Neighborhood based Tabu Search Algorithm for a Real-World Flight Instructor Scheduling Problem", European Journal of Operational Research , 169 (3), 978-993 Sohoni, Milind.,Johnson, Ellis.,Bailey, T.. (2004) "Long Range Reserve Crew Planning in Airlines", Management Science , 50 (6), 724-729 Sohoni, Milind.,Bailey, T..,Martin, Kristi.,Carter, Helen.,Johnson, Ellis. (2003) "Delta Optimizes Continuing - Qualification - Training Schedules for Pilots", Interfaces , 33 (5), 57-70
Books and Monographs
Reports
Sohoni, Milind. (2019) "What Newspaper Vendors Can Teach Airlines", Rsearch Byte (1-2019) Sohoni, Milind. (2018) "How to Forge a Make in India Success Story", Sohoni, Milind. (2018) "Saving Lives: Emergency Medical Services in India", (Jan-July 2018) Devalkar, Sripad.,Sohoni, Milind.,Arora, Priyank. (2017) "Tapping the Sceptical Donor: A Novel Funding Approach for Non-profits", (4-2017) Sohoni, Milind. (2016) "Coping with the Effects of Climate Change", (Jul-Sep 2016) Fischer, Harry.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Kolagani, Sriharitej.,Sohoni, Milind. (2016) "From Apple Juice to Garlic Pickle: Climate Change Adaptation in the Himalayas", Cover Story (July-Sep 2016) Sohoni, Milind.,Jain, Aditya. (2016) "To Reveal or Not to Reveal: Secrecy in Supply Chain Management", (Jan-Mar 2016) Sohoni, Milind. (2016) "Robust Airline Operations: Planning for uncertainty", (Apr-Jun 2016) Sohoni, Milind.,Devalkar, Sripad. (2015) "Ex-post Funding: Innovating Non-profit Organisations", (Oct-Dec 2015) Sohoni, Milind. (2009) "Attracting Volunteers in Non-Profits: Empirical Evidence from India’s Education Sector", ISB Insight (6-2019) Sohoni, Milind. (2006) "Globalizing Indian manufacturing competing in global manufacturing and service networks", Sohoni, Milind.,T. Glenn Bailey.,Kristi G. Martin. (2003) "An Optimization approach to pilot recurrent training scheduling", Georgia Tech - Technical Report
Cases
Working Papers
Malladi, Vishwakant.,Sohoni, Milind. "Delay Propagation in Airline disruptions" Sohoni, Milind.,Erat, Sanjiv. "Can Time Buffers Lead To Delays? The Role of Reactive Capacity" Devalkar, Sripad.,Sohoni, Milind.,Sharma, Neha. "Payment for Results: Funding Non-Profit Operations" Seshadri, Sridhar. "Procurement from multiple suppliers using demand partitioning; 2011" V. Deshpande.,C Manchiraju. "Are airlines demand chaser?" S. Chitla.,A. Rout. "Increasing recruitment yield at TFI: Do experiential events matter" Harry, Fischer.,Sohoni, Milind.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Chhatre, Ashwini. "Rural institutions, social networks, and self-organized adaptation to climate change" Sohoni, Milind.,Bala, Ram.,Kunnumkal, Sumit. "Capacity Investment in Product Upgrades: Attack of the Clones" Sohoni, Milind.,Krishnan, Harish. "Operational Sharing Among Competitors" A. Patil.,A. Ahmed.,K. Talluri. "Valuing new markets in airline networks"
