Faculty
Dr. Neha Advani
Associate Professor
Alliance School of Business
Dr. Neha Advani holds a PhD in Quantitative Methods (with a Minor in Production and Operations Management) from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She earned a MicroMasters Program certificate in Supply Chain Management from MIT, USA, through EdX. Additionally, she holds both a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from M S University, Baroda.
Dr. Advani is a dedicated educator with over 10 years of experience in teaching and 5 years in research. Her teaching expertise spans Operations Research, Quantitative Methods, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, and Supply Chain Analytics.
Her research focuses on Supply Chain Coordination and Inventory Management in retail settings. She also explores topics such as EV adoption in India and the application of Analytics in Public Sector Projects.
Awards:
- Recipient: Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award (EEDSA), 2014, POMS 25th Annual Conference, Atlanta for the paper titled ”Single Period Inventory System with Shelf Space Dependent Demand: Implications On Design Of Coordination Mechanisms”
- Recipient: Silver Jubilee Fellowship for Master of Engineering at M S University, Baroda,1997-
Conferences and Workshops:
- “Revenue sharing contract for single period inventory system with stochastic and shelf space dependent demand”, POMS 27th Annual Conference, May 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA
- “Newsvendor Problem with Shelf Space Dependent Demand: Implications On Design Of Coordination Mechanisms”, POMS 25th Annual Conference, May 2014, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Participated in the Doctoral Consortium on Teaching, August 2013, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India
- “Single Period Inventory Model for Stochastic and Shelf Space Dependent Demand”, 26th European Conference on Operations Research(EURO/INFORMS), June 2013, Rome, Italy.
- “Single Period Inventory Model for Stochastic and Shelf Space Dependent Demand : Results from Analytical Model and Numerical Analysis”, Accepted at 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies(IFORS), July 2014, Barcelona, Spain
- A “Stochastic Single-Item Inventory Model for Shelf Space Allocation” accepted at 9th International Symposium On Logistics(ISL) Conference, 2004 IIM Bangalore, India.
