Prof. Devinder Kumar Banwet, FIE, is Founding Vice-Chancellor at the University of
Engineering & Management Kolkata India. He is an Emeritus Professor of DMS IIT Delhi in
the area of Operations & Supply Chain Management and a Fellow of the Institution of
Engineers (India). He is a Graduate Mechanical Engineer, with a Master of Industrial
Engineering and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. He has made significant contributions in publications
related to Operations Management. His areas of research interest include Operations
Management, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Project Management, IT-enabled
DSS, Industrial Systems Engineering, Total Quality Management, Manufacturing Strategy,
Technology Management, Materials Management, Facilities Planning, Operations Research
Modelling, Telecom Systems, and Entrepreneurship Management.