Akhilesh KumarAkhilesh Kumar , PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Previously, he worked as a Solution Architect in Consulting Team at JDA Software,Bangalore. He received his B.Tech degree in Manufacturing Engineering from National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (India) and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University (USA) in the year 2005 and 2011, respectively. His teaching interests include non-linear programming, multivariate statistical models, generalized linear models, machine learning, and data analytics. He has authored various courses, lectures and workshops on applied machine learning and data analytics at IIT Kharagpur and other premier institutes. He has authored several technical papers. His publications appeared in such journals as International Journal of Production Economics , European Journal of Operational Research , Expert System with Applications, IEEE. He carried out collaborative research with multi-national companies as Ford Motor Company and Delphi Automotive LLP. He has delivered lectures on various topics in companies as TELCON, HAL, McNally Bharat. He also appeared on Marquis Who’s Who in America in 2011. Read More Read Less