Milind Sohoni

Professor (on Leave), Operations Management

Email milind_sohoni@isb.edu

Website https://sites.google.com/view/milindsohoni/introduction

Overview

Milind Sohoni is a Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. 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.

Experience

Academic

  • 2017 - Present: Professor (on Leave), Indian School of Business
  • 2021 - 2022: Deputy Dean - Faculty & Research, Indian School of Business
  • 2019 - 2022: Deputy Dean - Hyderabad Campus, Indian School of Business
  • 2019 - 2021: Deputy Dean, Academic Affairs, Indian School of Business
  • 2018 - 2021: Area Leader, Indian School of Business
  • 2017 - 2019: Deputy Dean, Faculty Development and Registrar's Office, Indian School of Business
  • 2010 - 2017: Associate Professor, Indian School of Business
  • 2016 - 2017: Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Alignment and Registrar's Office, Indian School of Business
  • 2014 - 2016: Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs, Indian School of Business
  • 2011 - 2011: Visiting Scholar, UPF, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2010 - 2010: Visiting Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • 2004 - 2009: Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business
  • 2008 - 2008: Visiting Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • 2005 - 2006: Visiting Scholar, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
  • 2003 - 2003: Assistant Instructor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech - 2003

Professional

In the Media

April 21, 2022: India's sustainability Promise, Business India.

June 16, 2021: Getting ready for the third Corona wave, The New Indian Express.

May 3, 2021: How to tackle the oxygen logistics nightmare, The Hindu Business Line.

August 9, 2020: Shramik saviours, Fortune India.

July 6, 2020: Shramik trains helped avert a 'humanitarian crisis': Report by ET BUREAU, The Economic Times.

September 22, 2016: From Apple Juice to Garlic Pickle: Climate Change Adaptation in the Himalayas, ISB Insight.

June 1, 2016: Robust Airline Operations: Planning for Uncertainty., ISB Insight.

December 2, 2015: Ex-post Funding: Innovating Non-Profit Operations, ISB Insight.

August 21, 2015: Turbulence in the Skies: Indian Aviation Takes New Fllight, Knowledge@Wharton.

October 20, 2011: Decentralization of resource-constrained networks, Pharmabiz.

October 20, 2011: Decentralization of Resource Constrained Networks, Pharma News Weekly.

October 1, 2011: Using Operations Management to Improve Healthcare Access, ISBInsight.

October 1, 2011: Using Operations Management to Improve Healthcare Access, ISB Insight.

April 3, 2008: Are Private Airports in India Ready to Take Off?, India Knowledge @ Wharton.

, 2007: Information, Incentives, and Supply Chain Contracts, ISB Insight.

, 2006: Globalizing Indian manufacturing competing in global manufacturing and service networks, .

Research & Publications