IIT Madras

Department of
Management Studies

Dr. Vipin B
Faculty Profile

Dr. Vipin B

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (2017) — Indian Institute of Technology Madras
M.Tech. (2010) — Industrial Engineering and Management, NIT Calicut
B.Tech. (2008) — (Honours), Mechanical Engineering, GEC Kozhikode
vipinb[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in +91-44-2257 4591 Office: DoMS 407

Research & Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Decision Theory
  • Inventory Theory
  • Behavioral Operations Management
  • Sustainable Operations Management
  • Vaccine Supply Chain Management
  • Agriculture Supply Chain Management

Teaching Interests

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Operations Management
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Optimization Techniques
  • Operations Research
  • Supply Chain Analytics
  • Sustainability
  • Decision Theory
  • Stochastic Elements of Business

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor: Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras (2024 - till date)
  • Assistant Professor: Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur (2017 - 2024)

Journal Publications

  • Khan, M. M., Vipin, B. (2025). Abundance Versus Scarcity: An Experimental Study of Financially Constrained Newsvendors. Journal of Operations Management (Forthcoming).
  • Chandra, D., Vipin, B., and Kumar, D. (2023). A fuzzy multi-criteria framework to implement next-generation vaccine supply chain. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management.
  • Shukla, M., Vipin, B., and Sengupta, R. N. (2022). Impact of flexibility on multi-objective multi-period reverse logistic network design. Annals of Operations Research (Forthcoming).
  • Chandra, D., Vipin, B. (2021). On the vaccine supply chain coordination under subsidy contract. Vaccine.
  • Vipin, B., and Amit, R. K. (2021). Wholesale price versus buyback: A comparison of contracts in a supply chain with a behavioral retailer. Computers & Industrial Engineering.
  • Joshi, B. V., Vipin, B., Ramkumar, J., and Amit, R. K. (2021). Impact of policy instruments on lead-acid battery recycling: A system dynamics approach. Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
  • Vipin, B., and Amit, R. K. (2019). Describing decision bias in the newsvendor problem: A prospect theory model. Omega.
  • Vipin, B., and Amit, R. K. (2017). Loss aversion and rationality in the newsvendor problem under recourse option. European Journal of Operational Research.

Books & Book Chapters

Books:

  • Vipin, B., Rajendran, C., Janakiraman, G., Philip, D (Eds.), (2021) Emerging Frontiers in Operations and Supply Chain Management: Theory and Applications, Springer.

Chapters:

  • Khan, M. M., Vipin, B. (2025). Coordinating a behavioral supply chain under revenuesharing contract. In: Optimization essentials. Springer.
  • Singh, A., Ramkumar, J., Vipin, B. (2023). Digital manufacturing. In: Advances in Digital Manufacturing Systems. Springer.
  • Kavitha, C., Amit, R.K., Vipin, B. (2021). Truthful information sharing in a multiretailer supply chain: Role of review strategies. Springer.
  • Chandra, D., Vipin, B. (2021). Investigating the vaccine supply chain: A review. Springer.

Selected Refereed Conferences

  • Mohd Mujahid Khan, B Vipin, "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: An Experimental Study of Newsvendor Decisions under Recourse Option", MSOM Conference 2025, London Business School.
  • Shivam Sharma et al., "Synergizing Trade Policies and Domestic Production Schemes...", MSOM Conference 2025, London Business School.
  • Shivam Sharma et al., "Coordinating Agricultural Trade and Production Policies...", EURO 2025, University of Leeds.
  • B Vipin, Mohd Mujahid Khan, "Resilience and Emergency Orders...", EURO 2025, University of Leeds.
  • Sheersha Karmakar et al., "Re-manufacturing in leasing and selling consumer durables...", POMS India Conference 2024, IIM Ranchi.
  • Mohd Mujahid Khan and B Vipin, "Prospect theory and the capital-constrained newsvendor...", MSOM Conference 2024, University of Minnesota.
  • Mohd Mujahid Khan and B Vipin, "Prospect theory and the financially constrained newsvendor...", INFORMS BOC 2024, University of Colorado Boulder.
  • Nisha Sihag and B Vipin, "Evaluating carbon and lead dynamics...", POMS 2024 Conference, Minneapolis.
  • Md Mujahid Khan and B Vipin, "Navigating financial constraints...", POMS India Conference 2023, XLRI India.
  • Nisha Sihag and B Vipin, "Challenges and opportunities in the lead-acid battery ecosystem...", POMS India Conference 2023, XLRI India.
  • Mohd Mujahid Khan and B Vipin, "Newsvendor and the trade credit financing...", OR65 2023, University of Bath.
  • Nisha Sihag and B Vipin, "Investigating the role of emission policies...", SOM Conference 2022, IIM Indore.
  • Dheeraj Chandra and B Vipin, "A hybrid contract to coordinate rotavirus vaccine supply chain in India", EURO 2021, Greece.
  • Deepak Singh Attri and B Vipin, "On the competitive newsvendor problem...", BOC 2019, Eindhoven.
  • Manish Shukla et al., "Multi-objective reverse logistics network design", EURO 2019, Dublin.
  • B Vipin and R K Amit, "Wholesale price versus buyback...", SOM 2018, IIM Kozhikode.
  • B Vipin and R K Amit, "Loss aversion and rationality in the newsvendor problem...", MSOM 2016, Auckland.
  • B Vipin and R K Amit, "Decision bias in the newsvendor problem...", MSOM 2015, Toronto.
  • B Vipin and R K Amit, "Newsvendor problem and pull-to-center effect...", INFORMS BOC 2015, Cornell University.

Fellowship & Peer Recognitions

  • DAAD Fellowship (2015; University of Duisburg-Essen).
  • Academic Senate Citation for Exceptionally Good Teaching at IIT Kanpur:
    • DMS 201 Introduction to Management (2024)
    • MBA 931 Stochastic Elements of Business (2023)
    • IME 643A Frontiers in Operations Management (2022)
    • MBA 661A Production and Operations Management (2021)
    • IME 642A Operations Management (2021)
    • MBA 664A Supply Chain Management (2020)
    • MBA 661A Production and Operations Management (2019)
  • Best Paper Award (1st Runner Up) for "From abundance to scarcity..." at MERC 2024 (IIM Kashipur).
  • Third Position for PhD student Mr. Mohd Mujahid Khan in Research Showcase Event 2023 at DoMS, IIT Kanpur.
  • DST Travel Grant for attending BOC 2017 at MIT, USA.
  • Best Paper Award for "Prospect theory, pull-to-center effect..." at DoMS Research Symposium 2016, IIT Madras.

Funded Projects & Contributions

Externally Funded Projects

  • Design of procurement contracts for the vaccine supply chain in India, ANRF (SERB) CORE Research Grant (2024-ongoing).
  • Personalized Recommender System for Airline Industry, Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt. Ltd. (2023-2024).

Academic Community

  • Editorial Board Member: Journal of Global Reviews on Economics; BOHR International Journal of Operations Management Research and Practices.
  • Reviewer: Omega, EJOR, Annals of Operations Research, JIMO, Expert Systems with Applications, OPSEARCH, Benchmarking, etc.