Prof. Rajesh Matai has been a faculty member in the Department of Management at BITS, Pilani, teaching business analytics, project management, prescriptive analytics, operations, and supply chain management for the last 16 years. His research interests include facility layout/Location problems, the travelling salesman problem, Supply Chain Finance, agri-fresh supply chain, Circular Economy, and ICT adoption in the Indian Manufacturing MSME sector.
Prof. Matai has published research papers in leading International and national journals, such as the International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Measuring Business Excellence, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Journal of Modelling in Management, and Vilakshan, as well as in reputable conference proceedings, including IEEM21 and IEEM23.
At BITS Pilani, he has guided five Ph.D. Students so far. Prof Matai has acted as an International PhD Examiner for three scholars from the University of South Africa and the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Prof Matai has International research collaborations at Aston University, United Kingdom; the University of Oregon, USA; and RMIT University, Australia. He is a reviewer for many prominent International journals, including the International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Benchmarking: An International Journal, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, The Bottom Line, and International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management.
Prof. Matai is a senior member of IEEE. He is also a member of INFORMS, POMS, the Analytics Society of India, the Soft Computing Research Society, the Institute of Engineers (India), and AIMS International.
