Shivshanker Singh Patel

Shivshanker Singh Patel

Associate Professor
Decision Sciences
shivshanker[at]iimv[dot]ac[dot]in



Dr. Shivshanker Singh Patel holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, an M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College (now NIT), Raipur.

He has previously worked as a Manager at Mphasis-NextLabs in the field of data science and as an R&D Engineer with Mahindra & Mahindra Automotive. Before joining IIM Visakhapatnam, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand. His research interests include system modeling and analysis, machine learning, game theory, optimization , and forecasting with a focus on applications in scarce resource management, health care and public policy. He currently heads the Interdisciplinary Decision Sciences & Analytics Lab (IDeAL).

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/shivshanker

  • Data Science, Operations Research
  • PGP- Decision Science-II, Data Science for Business Decision
  • PhD- Network Theory, Optimization Theory

Journal

  • A bargaining model for sharing water in a river with negative externality. OPSEARCH, 10.1007/s12597-021-00555-z (With Parthasarathy Ramachandran)
  • Informal-Contract farming in An Agriculture Supply Chain: A Game-Theoretic Analysis. International Journal of Operational Research (in press). DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2020.10035322.
  • A Generalized Epidemiological Model for COVID-19 with Dynamic and Asymptomatic Population,  arXiv:2011.09686. with (Anirban Ghatak, Soham Bonnerjee, and Subhrajyoty Roy)
  • Forecasting health of complex IT systems using system log data. J BANK FINANC TECHNOL 4, 27–35 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42786-019-00011-z.
  • “A Bilateral River Bargaining Problem with Negative Externality”, arXiv:1912.05844, 2019 ( with Parthasarathy Ramachandran).
  • “An Optimisation Model for a Dairy Co-Operative for Promoting Sustainable Operations for Milk Collection”, Working Paper-293, 2019. ISSN 2454-7115 (With Rajeev Pandey and HK Mishra).
  • “Optimization and Policy Analysis of Water allocation in a River Basin”, Sustainable Water Resource Management-Springer,pp-1-14, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s40899-017-0124-5 (with Parthasarathy Ramachandran.).
  • “Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling River flow time series: The case of upper Cauvery river basin”. Volume 29, Issue 2, pp 589-602, 2015. Water Resource Management- Springer. doi: 10.1007/s11269-014-0705-0. (with Parthasarathy Ramachandran).
  • A Review on Global Status of “Right to Water”: A Topic for Discussion or Enactment, IRMA -Working Paper-285, 2016. ISSN 2454-7115 (with Parthasarathy Ramachandran and Manisha Shah)

Conferences

  • An Optimization model for a Dairy Co-Operative for Sustainable Operations for Milk Collection (with Rajeev Pandey and HK Mishra), The XXIII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM 2019), IIT Kanpur, from December 20 – 21, 2019.
  • Smart Grids and Mechanisms for Local Water Trading in Rural, 13th Annual ISDSI Conference at IIM Sambalpur, December 27-30, 2019.
  • Hypergraph Modeling for Pattern Recognition in Rural Social Network”, 12th Annual ISDSI Conference to be held at SPJIMR, 28th Dec - 30th Dec,2018.
  • “Informal-Contract farming in Agriculture Supply Chain: A Game Theoretic Analysis”, The XXII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM 2018), IIM Kozhikode, from December 20 – 22, 2018.
  • Forecasting health of complex IT systems using system log data, The ITISE 2018 (International conference on Time Series and Forecasting), Granada, Spain, Sept. 19th-21th, 2018.
  • Fair Allocation Mechanisms for Bankrupt Water Resource, The XXI Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management concluded successfully at Ahmedabad University on 23rd December,2017.
  • “A Bilateral River Bargaining Problem with Negative Externalities” 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, Scotland, 12-15 July 2015. (with Parthasarathy Ramachandran).
  • “Machine learning techniques for modelling river flow time series in upper Cauvery river basin”. Proceedings of 8th International Conference of EWRA, Porto, Portugal, 2013. “Water Re- sources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context”. ISBN: 978-989-95557-8-5. (with Parthasarathy Ramachandran).
  • “Basic Water Right Implication: A Study in Upper Cauvery River Basin” 7th DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM, IIM Ahmedabad, Dec. 2013. (with Parthasarathy Ramachandran).

Projects

  • A vehicle routing problem of milk run problem for AMUL (Kaira Milk Union) to minimize the transportation cost (with AMUL-IRMA) (2019).
  • Analyzing the impact of irrigation project in arid region of Gujrat (with Sardar Sarvar Canal, Govt of Gujarat-IRMA) (2019).
  • Time and motion study of MNREGA worker (with Govt. of Gujarat-IRMA) (2019).
  • A social-network analysis to resolve the inter-village/community water conflict problem (with Jal Bhagirathi, Jodhpur-IRMA) (2017).
  • A machine learning based prescriptive analytics model for automated wealth management (with MPHASIS-Nextlabs) (2016).
  • InfraGraf® A machine learning and graph theory-based algorithm to identify and predict system warnings, failures, outages, performance, availability, and sub-optimal performance (with MPHASIS-Nextlabs) (2016).
  • HyperGraf® A big data correlation engine generates customer 360-degree insights (with MPHASIS-Nextlabs) (2015).

Executive training

  • FDP on Analytics  August 30th to Sept 3rd, 2021
  • FDP on Pedagogy in Research Methodology, July 12th, 2021 to July 16th, 2021
  • FDP on Analytics, 27th July to 31st July, 2020.
  • Inventory Management at IRMA (May 15 - 16, 2018)
  • Executive Development Programme for Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd. (Term-4), (December 3 - 13, 2018)
  • General Business Management Programme for National Dairy Development Board, (October 8 - 27, 2018)
  • Executive Development Programme for Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd. (Term-3), (October 5 - 13, 2018)
  • Executive Development Programme for Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd. (Term-2), (July 9 - 14, 2018)
  • General Business Management Programme for National Dairy Development Board, (July 16 - August 4, 2018)
  • General Management and Leadership Programme (GMP), (February 26 - March 10, 2018)

Invited Seminars & Talks

  • “Industry 4.0 oriented Curriculum Development” at NIT Raipur, FDP on ‘Shifting Teaching-Learning Paradigm Addressing the Future Needs of Engineering’ during 7th-11th September, 2019.
  • “Data Analysis and Data visualization” Basic course in Management organized by National Dairy Development Board, Anand Gujarat INDIA (2016).
  • “Approaches to Water Conflict Resolution Mechanisms for for Raj Sagar Dam, Pali District”, workshop on “Experience Sharing on Water-Conflict Resolution” organized by Jal Bhagirathi Foundation (JBF) with the support of The Asia Foundation, Jodhpur, 9th January, 2017.
  • “Safety Engineering” CEP Course on Trends in Environmental Engineering Evaluation and Practices, organized by Electronics & Radar Development Establishment, Defence Research and Development Organization, December 4th to 6th Dec, 2013. Bangalore, India.
  • “Concurrent Engineering” CEP Course on Trends in Environmental Engineering Evaluation and Practices, organized by Electronics & Radar Development Establishment, Defence Research and Development Organization, September 24-th to 28-th, 2012. Bangalore, India.

Chair-

               IT Resource Advisory Committee

               Area Chair (2020-2021)

Member-

               PGP Committee

               PhD Program Committee

Member of Fellow program committee (2017-2019), IRMA
Member of Research & Consultancy committee (2017-2019), IRMA