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Professor QMIS Area
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Bannerghatta Road
Bangalore 560076
Email address 1: dineshk@iimb.ernet.in 
Email address 2: udkumar@gmail.com
Phone: ++ 91 80 26993146 (O), 26993216 (R), 9449737563 (M)

Academic Qualifications

Degree

Specialization

Institute

Year

Ph.D.

Mathematics

Indian Institute of Technology , Bombay

1994

M.Sc.

Applied Mathematics (Operations Research)

P.S.G. College of Technology, ( Bharathiyar University )

1990

B.Sc.

Applied Sciences (Faculty of Engineering)

Bharathiyar University

1987

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Analysis of Split and Merge Production System

Area of Specialization

Defence Logistics, Operations Research, Systems Engineering

Areas of Research Expertise

Stochastic models (Markov and Non-Markov models), Reliability and Software Reliability, Optimization, Multi Criteria Decision Making, Six Sigma, Maintainability and Maintenance, Integrated Logistic Support, New Product Development.

Current and Previous Appointments

Period

Designation

Organization

 

July 2006 - Current

Professor

QMIS Group
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
 Bannerghatta Road , Bangalore 560076  

Sept. 2005 – July 2006

Visiting Professor

(on leave from IIM Calcutta)

Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
Stevens Institute of Technology , USA  

March 2005 – August 2005

Professor

Operations Management Group
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta , India  

June & December 2004

Visiting Fellow

School of Engineering
Queensland University of Technology , Australia  

June 2004

Visiting Professor

National Graduate School of Management
Australian National University , Australia  

April 2001 – February 2005

Associate Professor

Operations Management Group
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta , India  

January 2000 – March 2001

Assistant Professor

Operations Management Group
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta , India  

September 1996 – January 2000

Lecturer

School of Engineering
University of Exeter , United Kingdom  

October 1995 – September 1996

Post Doctoral Fellow

School of Management
University of Toronto , Canada  

February 1995 – April 1995

Research Associate

Reliability Laboratory
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich , Switzerland  

October 1994 – September 1995

Senior Research Fellow

Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology , Bombay , India

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

1997 - 1999         Mechanical Reliability
                         School of Engineering, University of Exeter, UK

1997 - 1999         Operations and Maintenance
                         School of Engineering, University of Exeter, UK

Postgraduate Courses

2008 –                 Current Stochastic models in Business and Management, IIM Bangalore
2006 –                 Current Quantitative Methods, IIM Bangalore
2005                   Supportability and Logistics, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
2004                   Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Australian National University, Australia
2004 – 2005         New Product Development, IIM Calcutta, India
2001 – 2005         Knowledge Management, IIM Calcutta, India
2000 – 2002         Product Life Cycle Management, IIMC, India
2000 – 2005         Operations Research, IIM Calcutta, India
1996 – 2000         Basic Logistics Tools ( Probability and Statistics ) Centre M.I.R.C.E, University of Exeter, UK 
1996 - 2000         Advanced Logistics Tools (Operations Research and Management) Centre M.I.R.C.E, University of Exeter, UK
1996 – 2000         Reliability and Safety Centre M.I.R.C.E, University of Exeter, UK
1996 – 2000         Maintenance and Maintainability Engineering Centre M.I.R.C.E, University of Exeter, UK
1996 – 2000         Reliability Management Centre M.I.R.C.E, University of Exeter, UK
1996 – 2000         Reliability and Maintainability M.Sc in aerospace design, manufacturing and management IGDS, University of Bristol, Bath and West of England
1996 – 2000         Integrated Logistic Support M.Sc in aerospace design, manufacturing and management IGDS, University of Bristol, Bath and West of England

 

IN-HOUSE TRAINING AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
Conducted several in-house and management development programmes on the topics listed below in India and other parts of the world

  1. Business Analytics

  2. Six Sigma Green Belt Training

  3. Six Sigma and New Product Development

  4. Six Sigma and Project Management

  5. Supply Chain Management

  6. Total Productive Maintenance.

  7. Supportability and Logistics

  8. Reliability Engineering and Management

  9. Maintenance and Spare Parts Management

  10. Maintenance Free Operating Period

  11. Maintainability and Maintenance Management.

  12. Spare Parts Provisioning and Management

  13. Mathematical tools and techniques for Logisticians.

  14. Logistics Engineering and Analysis.

Consultancy and Research Project Grants

Year

Project Title

Sponsoring Organization  

2009-2010

Weapon system acquisition and management using performance based logistics

Army management studies board (AMSB), India

2005-06

Total cost of ownership of a Weapon system

Army management studies board (AMSB), India

2004

Cost of ownership models for Railway Assets

Queensland University of Technology , Australia

2004-05

Aggregation of Expert Opinion

Karrus Limited, UK

2003-04

Spare parts provisioning model

Karrus Limited, UK

2001-02

Total cost of ownership of airborne military equipment

DRDO, India

2001

Specification of partial failures

DERA , UK

1999-00

Logistic resource optimization

Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, USA

1998-01

A Whole life cycle costing approach to water distribution network management

EPSRC , UK

 

Publications

BOOKS

  1. Dinesh Kumar, U., Crocker, J., Chitra, T., and Saranga, H., (2006), Reliability and Six Sigma, Springer, USA

  2. Dinesh Kumar, U., Knezevic, J., Crocker J., and El-Haram, M., (2000), Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support - A Life Cycle Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Dinesh Kumar, U., “Six Sigma: Status and Trends”, in Handbook of Performability Engineering (Ed. K B Misra), Springer, UK 2008.

  2. Dinesh Kumar, U., and Crocker, J., (2002), Maintainability and Maintenance – A Case Study on Mission Critical Aircraft Components and Engines, in Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance (Eds. Blischke W and Murthy D N P), John Wiley, USA

EDITED VOLUMES

  1. Knezevic, J., Dinesh Kumar, U., and Nicholas, C. (Editors), (1999), Proceedings of the 9th International MIRCE Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness, December 1999.

  2. Knezevic, J., Dinesh Kumar, U., and Nicholas, C., (Editors), (1999) Proceedings of the 15th International SOLE Congress, May 1999.

  3. Dinesh Kumar, U., Knezevic, J., and Nicholas, C., (Editors), 1998, Proceedings of the 8th International M.I.R.C.E Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness,’ Exeter , December 1998.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  1. U Dinesh Kumar, Anirban B Roy, H Saranga and K Singal, “Analysis of Hedge Fund Strategies Using Slack Based DEA Models”, Forthcoming Journal of Operational Research Society, 2010.

  2. U Dinesh Kumar and H Saranga, (2010) “Optimal selection of obsolescence mitigation strategies using a restless bandit model”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 200, 170-180.

  3. D Nowicki, U Dinesh Kumar, H J Steudel and D Verma, (2008) ‘Spares Provisioning under performance based logistic contract: profit centric approach,’ Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol. 59, 342-352.

  4. U Dinesh Kumar, José E. Ramírez-Márquez, D Nowicki and D Verma, (2008), ‘On the Optimal Selection of Process Alternatives in a Six Sigma Implementation’, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 111, 456-467.

  5. U Dinesh Kumar, Haritha Saranga , José E. Ramírez-Márquez, and D Nowicki, (2007), ‘Six Sigma Project Selection Using Data Envelopment Analysis’, TQM Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 419-441.

  6. U Dinesh Kumar, José E. Ramírez-Márquez, D Nowicki and D Verma, (2007), ‘A Goal Programming Model for Optimizing Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability under Performance Based Logistics’, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 251-261.

  7. U Dinesh Kumar, José E. Ramírez-Márquez, D Nowicki and D Verma, (2007), ‘Reliability and Maintainability Allocation to Minimize the Total Cost of Ownership in a Series-Parallel System’, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 221, No. 2, pp. 133-140.

  8. T Bhaskar and U Dinesh Kumar (2006), A cost model for N-version programming under imperfect debugging, Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol. 57, 986-994.

  9. H Saranga, and U Dinesh Kumar (2006), Optimization of aircraft maintenance and support infrastructure using genetic algorithms – level of repair analysis, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 143, pp. 91-106.

  10. U Dinesh Kumar and P A Hinds, (2002), High Level Reliability Impact Analysis – A Case Study on Armoured Vehicle, R & D Quality Quest, Vol. 4, No. 1.

  11. U Dinesh Kumar, (2001), Setting Reliability Goals for Future Air Systems,’ IETE Journal of Research – Special Issue on Quality Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 5-9.

  12. P A Hinds and U Dinesh Kumar, (2001), A Methodology for Assessing the Cost of Failure,’ IETE Journal of Research – Special Issue on Quality Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 71-76.

  13. U Dinesh Kumar, (2000), Reliability Analysis of N-version Programming with Deadline Mechanism, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management,’ Vol. 17, Number 3, pp. 276-284.

  14. J Crocker and U Dinesh Kumar, (2000), Age-related Maintenance Versus Reliability Centred Maintenance - A Case Study on Aero Engines, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 67, pp. 113-118.

  15. Oded Berman and U Dinesh Kumar, (1999), Optimisation Models for Recovery Block Schemes, European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 115, No. 2, pp. 368-379.

  16. Oded Berman and U Dinesh Kumar, (1999), Optimisation Models for Complex Recovery Block Schemes, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 525-544.

  17. U Dinesh Kumar and A Birolini, (1999), Approximate Expressions for Availability of Repairable Series-Parallel Structures, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 319-333.

  18. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1999), Analysis of Production System with Stochastic Loading and Unloading, Communications in Dependability and Quality Management, Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 69-77.

  19. U Dinesh Kumar and M N Gopalan , (1999), On the Utilization of a Merge Production System Under ‘Make-to-Order’ Policy - Semi-Regenerative Modelling,” OPSEARCH, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 10-25.

  20. U Dinesh Kumar, (1999), New Trends in Reliability and Maintenance Measures,' Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 287-295.

  21. U Dinesh Kumar, J Knezevic and John Crocker, (1999), Maintenance Free Operating Period - An Alternative Measure to MTBF and Failure Rate for Specifying Reliability?, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 127-131.

  22. Oded Berman and U Dinesh Kumar, (1998), Reliability Analysis of Communicating Recovery Blocks, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 245-254.

  23. U Dinesh Kumar, (1998), Reliability Analysis of Fault Tolerant Recovery Blocks,  OPSEARCH, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 281 – 294.

  24. U Dinesh Kumar, and J Knezevic, (1998), Supportability - Critical Factor on Operational Availability, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Volume 15, No. 4, pp. 481-488.

  25. U Dinesh Kumar and J Knezevic, (1998), Availability Based Spare Optimisation Using Renewal Process, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 59, pp. 217-223.

  26. A Brenner and U Dinesh Kumar, (1997), Performance/Dependability Modelling Using Stochastic Reward Models: Transient Behaviour, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 449-454.

  27. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1997), Stochastic Analysis of a Merge Production System, International Journal of Management and Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 85-102.

  28. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1997), On the Transient Behaviour of a Rotary Production System, Journal of the Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 51-62, 1997.

  29. U Dinesh Kumar and J  Knezevic, (1997), Spare Optimisation Models For Series and Parallel Structures, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering,  Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 177-188.

  30. U Dinesh Kumar, (1997) Analysis of Fault Tolerant Systems Operating Under Different Stress Levels During A Mission, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Vol. 14, No. 9, pp. 899-908.

  31. U Dinesh Kumar and M. N. Gopalan, (1997), Analysis of Consecutive k-out-of-n:F Systems with Single Repair Facility,  Microelectronics and Reliability , Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 587-590.

  32. U Dinesh Kumar and M N Gopalan, (1996), On the Transient Behavior of a Continuous Review (s,S) Inventory Policy, Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.  77-88.

  33. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1996), On the Transient Behaviour of a Repairable System with a Warm Standby,  Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 525-532.

  34. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1996), On the Transient Behaviour of a r-out-of-n:G System, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 36, No. 3,  pp. 409-413.

  35. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1996), Approximate Analysis of n-Unit Cold-Standby Systems, Microelectronics and Reliability,  Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 505-509.

  36. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1996), Production rate of a Merge Production under `Make-to-Stock’ Policy, International Journal of Management and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 253-266.

  37. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1996), On the Transient Behaviour of a Assembly-Like Production System, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 17-28.

  38. M N Gopalan and U. Dinesh Kumar, (1996), On the Transient Behaviour of a Merge Producion System with Inter-Stage Inspections, Journal of Combinatorics, Information and Systems Science, Vol. 21, pp. 35-45.

  39. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1996), Stochastic Analysis of a Two-Stage Production System with n-Parallel Service Stations in the Second Stage, Transactions of Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability, Vol. 21, No. 1.

  40. M N Gopalan and U. Dinesh Kumar, (1996), Stochatic Analysis of a Merge Production System with Inter-Stage Inspections, Systems Science,  Vol. 22,  No. 1, pp. 73-84.

  41. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1995), Probabilistic Analysis of a N-unit Cold-Standby System with General Failure and Repair time Distributions,  Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 851-857.

  42. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1995), Analysis of N-unit Cold-Standby Systems with General Failure and Repair Time Distributions, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Vol. 12, No. 2.

  43. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1995), Analysis of Cold-Standby Systems - Cutting and Clustering the State-Space, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering,  Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 327-340.

  44. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1995), On the Transient Behaviour of a Merge Production System, International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 2417-2427.

  45. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1995), On the Production rate of a Split Production System with an Initial Buffer, Journal of Combinatorics, Information and Systems Science. Vol. 10, Nos. 1-4.

  46. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1995), On the Utilization of a Split Production System with Inter-Stage Inspection, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 107-116.

  47. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1995), Analysis of a Merge Production System Under `Make-to-Order’ Policy,  International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 223-233.

  48. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1994), Production rate of a Split Production System, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 1, No.3, pp. 353-364.

  49. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1994) Semi-Regenerative Processes and Optimization in r-out-of-n:G System, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 1,  No. 4, pp. 433-444.

  50. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1994), On the Transient Behaviour of a Merge Production System with an End Buffer, International Journal of Productions Economics, Vol. 34, pp. 157-165.

  51. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1994), On the Production rate of a Merge Production System, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 66-72.

  52. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1994), On the First-Passage Probabilities of a Split Production System, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 13E, No. 1, pp. 23-28.

  53. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1994), On the First-passage Probabilities of a Split Production System with an Initial Buffer, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences,  Vol. 13E, No. 2, pp. 123-130.

  54. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1993), Stochastic Analysis of a Two-Stage Production System with n-Parallel Stations in the First Stage, International Journal of Management and Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 63-75.

  55. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1993), On the Utilization of a Split Production System, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 17-25.

  56. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1993), Stochastic Analysis of a Two-Stage Production System with n Parallel Stations in the Second Stage and an Inter-Stage Buffer, International Journal of Management and Systems, Vol. 9, No. 2,  pp. 117-136, (1993).

  57. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1993), Stochastic Analysis of a Split Production System with an Initial Buffer, Systems and Cybernetics in Management, Vol. 22, Nos. 1-2, pp. 81-93.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED CONFERENCES

  1.  U Dinesh Kumar and G Chattopadhyay (2004), Mathematical Models for Analysis of Extended Warranty, Proceedings of the Fifth Asia Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Cairns, 12-15 December 2004, Australia.

  2. U Dinesh Kumar, G Chattopadhyay and H S Pannu (2004), Total Cost of Ownership for Railway Assets – A Case Study on Wagons, Proceedings of the Fifth Asia Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Cairns, 12-15 December 2004, Australia.

  3. U Dinesh Kumar and H Saranga, (2004), Multi-Echelon Multi-Indenture Models for Aircraft Spare Parts Inventory and Availability Optimization, IASTED Conference on Modeling, Identification and Control, 23-25 February 2004, Switzerland .

  4. U Dinesh Kumar, J Crocker, J Knezevic, (1999), Evolutionary Maintenance for Aircraft Engines,’ Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 62-68.

  5. U Dinesh Kumar, (1999), Spares Forecasting and Constant Failure Rate - The magic and the Myth,' Proceedings of the 15th International Logistics Congress,' Exeter , UK , pp. 91-96.

  6. U Dinesh Kumar, (1997), Spares Modelling Using Alternating Renewal Process, Proceedings of the 7-th International M.I.R.C.E Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness, Exeter .

  7. U Dinesh Kumar and J Crocker, (1997), Review of Spare Optimisation Models, Paper Presented at 36 ORS Conference, Bath , UK .

  8. U  Dinesh Kumar, R. K. Jain and J. Knezevic, (1996), Optimal Maintenance Policies for r-out-of-n:G Systems,” Proceedings of the sixth International MIRCE Symposium, University of Exeter, UK,  pp. 153-164.

  9. M N Gopalan and U Dinesh Kumar, (1993), On the Expected Queue Length of a n-Unit Cold-Standby System with Single Repair Facility, Proceedings of the XXXV Annual Convention of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, Hyderabad, pp. 414-423.

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

  1. John Crocker, thesis title: In-Service Reliability. University of Exeter , UK 2001.

  2. Peter Hinds, thesis title: High Level Reliability Impact Analysis, University of Exeter , UK 2000.

Personal Data

Date of Birth            : 30th May 1967.
Citizenship               : Indian
Sex                        :  Male

Membership in Professional Societies

  1. Senior Life Member – Operational Research Society of India

  2. Life member of Indian Statistical Association.

  3. Member of SOLE - The International Society of Logistics , USA

Awards

  1. Best Young Teacher Award by the Association of Indian Management Schools – 2003

  2. Visiting Fellowship – Queensland University of Technology - 2004

Administrative Works

Honorary Works

  1. Associate Editor, OPSEARCH – The Journal of Operational Research Society of India .

  2.  Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Operations Management.

  3. Editorial board member: Journal of Science and Technology

  4. Area Editor:  IIMB Management Review

  5. Editorial Board member: International Journal of Performability Engineering

  6. Editorial Member: The International Journal of Reliability and Risk.

  7. Editorial Member of the International Journal Communications in Dependability and Quality Management.

  8. Secretary, SOLE - The International Society of Logistics, Southwest Chapter , England .

  9. Co-ordinator of the 6th International M.I.R.C.E Symposium on Logistics, University of Exeter , UK , December 10-12, 1996

  10. Co-ordinator of the 7th International M.I.R.C.E Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness, University of Exeter , UK , December 8-10, 1997

  11. Co-Chair of the 8th International M.I.R.C.E Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness, University of Exeter , UK , December 7-9, 1998

  12. Referee: International Journal of Production Economics.

  13. Referee : European Journal of Operational Research.

  14. Referee : Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research.

  15. Referee : Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering.

  16. Referee : Reliability Engineering and System Safety.

  17. Referee: IMA Journal of Applied Industrial Mathematics.

  18. Referee: Journal of Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability.

  19. Referee: International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering.

  20. Referee: IEEE Transactions on Reliability

  21. Referee: OPSEARCH

  22. Referee: IIE Transactions