Arijit De is currently working as an Associate Professor at The University of Manchester. He is an Industrial and Systems Engineer, Operations Research and Machine Learning Scientist and Management Science Senior Lecturer.

Arijit has authored 20 technical papers (12 papers as lead and first author) in International Journals (peer-reviewed) such as 

- European Journal of Operational Research, 

- Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review,

- International Journal of Production Economics, 

- Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment,

- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 

- IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 

- International Journal of Production Research,

- Journal of Environmental Management, 

- Annals of Operations Research, 

- Computers and Industrial Engineering,

- Expert Systems with Applications and 

- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Arijit is also serving as a reviewer for several renowned International Journals. Web of Science citations is 785 with H-index as 16 (Web of Science Link), and Google Scholar citations is 1140 with H-Index as 18 (Google Scholar Link). 

Arijit De received his Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, M.Tech in Industrial Engineering and Management and B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

- Chartered Member (CMILT) of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

- Fellow (FHEA) of Higher Education Academy

- Advisor at Naxxar Technology Limited

- Researcher in Residence at Connected Places Catapult

- Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Australian Institute of Business

- Member of Expert Advisory Group, Foresight Future of Global Supply Chains

- Research Coordinator of Decision and Cognitive Science Research Centre

- Programme Director of MSc Operations, Project and Supply Chain Management

Prior to this, Arijit was holding other positions,

- Assistant Professor in Operations Management at Newcastle University

- Co-Investigator - Operations Research Expert with VALUMICS_H2020

- Turing Exchange Fellow at National Innovation Centre of Rural Enterprise

- Degree Programme Director of MSc of Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

- Data Scientist at Cogneau Systems Private Limited

- Senior Operations Research Scientist at Optym

- Project Researcher at Loughborough University

- Visiting Faculty at IMT Ghaziabad

- Research Assistant at The University of Hong Kong

- Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Real-World Supply Chain and Freight Transportation

Arijit was associated as a Co-Investigator for VALUMICS (https://valumics.eu/), which received funding (€318,555) from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 72724. Developed Operation Research based models for Real-World Supply Chain Problems to enable decision makers to evaluate policy impacts on food value chains. The research work is published on Transportation Research Part E.

Arijit worked on a UK-India Education and Research Initiative UKIERI-UGC funded Project "Advanced Analytics for Green and Resilient Supply Chain Decision Making". Grant Contract Number: UGC UKIERI 2016-17-067. He developed a conceptual framework based on Intuitionistic fuzzy set theory to evaluate Supply Chain Organization's sustainable performance. The work is published on Annals of Operations Research.

Arijit assisted number of organizations such as Ocean Supreme, Fadne etc. as part of the consultancy support for resolving real-world supply chain problem. Arijit addressed complex Inventory Management and Freight Transportation problem comprising of multiple stakeholders and published the work on International Journal of Production Economics. Moreover, Arijit addressed Sustainable Freight Transportation network problem considering cross-docks and published on International Journal of Production Research. Furthermore, Arijit investigated the Sustainable Freight Transport performance of third-party logistics service providers within automobile industry and published the work on International Journal of Production Research. 

Moreover, Arijit carried out a research work aiming to determine the pricing strategy for two supply chain members such as Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Independent Remanufacturer (IR) focussing on producing remanufactured products. The work is published on International Journal of Production Research.

Maritime Logistics and Port Operations

Arijit worked on a European Union EuropeAid - funded project EU-India Research & Innovation Partnership for Efficient and Sustainable Freight Transportation (REINVEST). Some of the research works on topics such as Maritime Transportation, Bunker Fuel Management and Port Operations, obtained out of this project are published in reputed journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operation Research and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Arijit's expertise can be further highlighted, as he published research works on Sustainable Ship Routing and Scheduling in reputed journals such as Computers and Industrial Engineering and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

At University of Hong Kong, Arijit's research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China and The University of Hong Kong through the Seed Fund for Basic Research. Arijit carried out research within Sustainable Shipping Operations addressing Disruption aspect within Maritime Logistics. The works are published on IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and IEEE Transactions on Engineering management.

Software Tools and Programming Languages

Arijit has the experience of using following programming language and software tools for various practical research works - IBM CPLEX, OPL, Gurobi, JAVA Eclipse, Python, MATLAB, RStudio, AnyLogic, SAS, SPSS, Power BI and Tableau.