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color: var(--pb1-ink-light);\">\r\n                        Viswanath Kumar has been with Corporate Research & Innovation at Tata Consultancy Services since 2005, looking at applied research activities, design & development and delivery of large-scale data and decision science engagements across business verticals such as Logistics & Supply Chains, Transportation, Retail, Travel & Hospitality, Manufacturing & Services, Disaster Management, and Human Resources.\r\n                    <\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n\r\n                <h2 class=\"doms-pb1-heading\">Professional Experience<\/h2>\r\n                <ul class=\"doms-pb1-list\">\r\n                    <li><strong>Principal Scientist:<\/strong> Tata Consultancy Services (Apr\u20192005 - Till date)<\/li>\r\n                    <li><strong>Research Fellow:<\/strong> Singapore MIT Alliance, NTU Singapore (Aug\u20192003 - Apr\u20192005)<\/li>\r\n                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n\r\n            <div id=\"tab-vk-research\" class=\"doms-pb1-panel\">\r\n                <h2 class=\"doms-pb1-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\r\n                \r\n                \r\n\r\n                <ul class=\"doms-pb1-list\">\r\n                    <li>Industrial Logistics & Supply Chains<\/li>\r\n                    <li>Human Capital Management<\/li>\r\n                    <li>Community Detection<\/li>\r\n                    <li>Stochastic Networks<\/li>\r\n                    <li>Risk & Resilience<\/li>\r\n                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n\r\n            <div id=\"tab-vk-awards\" class=\"doms-pb1-panel\">\r\n                <h2 class=\"doms-pb1-heading\">Awards & Honours<\/h2>\r\n                <div class=\"doms-pb1-scroll-box\">\r\n                    <ul class=\"doms-pb1-list small-text\">\r\n                        <li><strong>Member in Research Advisory Board<\/strong> at Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Centre (AMTDC), a center of excellence on Machine Tools and Production Technology \u2013 jointly supported by IIT Madras and Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Govt. of India (from 2019 \u2013 till date).<\/li>\r\n                        <li><strong>Member of Board of Studies<\/strong>, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SASTRA University (from 2017 \u2013 till date).<\/li>\r\n                        <li><strong>Special Initiative Award<\/strong> for being part of TATA Innovista Jury Panel in 2022\/23.<\/li>\r\n                        <li><strong>CTO Chartbuster Award<\/strong> (Part of the team) in TCS CTC 2012 in recognition of contribution to business from R&D Unit.<\/li>\r\n                        <li><strong>Dr Eldin\u2019s Best Paper Award<\/strong> for \u201cCycle Time Reduction in Batch Processes using Look Ahead Batch Scheduling\u201d in the 33rd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Jeju, South Korea (March 2004).<\/li>\r\n                        <li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> for \u201cMinimizing Completion Time Variance in Single Machine Systems using Tabu Search\u201d presented in Operations Management Conference \u2013 4, IIT Madras (Dec 2000).<\/li>\r\n                    <\/ul>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n\r\n            <div id=\"tab-vk-initiatives\" class=\"doms-pb1-panel\">\r\n                <h2 class=\"doms-pb1-heading\">Collaborative Initiatives & Activities<\/h2>\r\n                \r\n                \r\n\r\n                <ul class=\"doms-pb1-list small-text\">\r\n                    <li>Part of the core team and one of the Principal Architects in conceptualization, design, and development of <strong>KITE<\/strong> (https:\/\/www.mykite.in), a Technology Innovation Platform, created by AMTDC-IIT Madras for the enrichment of Manufacturing Innovation, Product Development and Skill Development.<\/li>\r\n                    <li>Facilitating and driving collaborative initiatives under <strong>Co-Innovation Network (TCS COIN)<\/strong>, an open innovation ecosystem at Tata Consultancy Services.<\/li>\r\n                <\/ul>\r\n\r\n                <h2 class=\"doms-pb1-heading\" style=\"margin-top: 30px;\">Publications<\/h2>\r\n                <p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--pb1-ink-light);\">Kindly visit the below google scholar link for the list of journal and conference publications\/patents.<\/p>\r\n                \r\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.in\/citations?hl=en&user=Vdig1m8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 10px 20px; background-color: var(--pb1-maroon); color: white; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">\r\n                    View Google Scholar Profile\r\n                <\/a>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <script>\r\n        function openTabVK(evt, tabName) {\r\n            var i, tabcontent, tablinks;\r\n            \r\n            \/\/ Hide all tab panels within this specific root\r\n            const root = document.getElementById('doms-profile-body-vk-root');\r\n            tabcontent = root.getElementsByClassName(\"doms-pb1-panel\");\r\n            for (i = 0; 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(1999) \u2014 Industrial Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore B.E. (1997) \u2014 Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli vkganesan[at]gmail[.]com Office: DoMS 114 Profile &#038; Experience Research Interests Awards &#038; Recognition Initiatives &#038; Publications Brief Profile&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15092,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66221"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75196,"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66221\/revisions\/75196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doms.iitm.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}