Biosketch

Dr. Kundu has done Ph.D. in the area of Operations Research from NIT Durgapur. After Ph.D., he has worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IISER Kolkata. He has also worked as a temporary faculty at NIT Raipur. Prior to joining BGU, He has worked as an Assistant Professor at BIT Mesra, under TEQIP-III, MHRD, Govt. of India.

Dr. Kundu has qualified NET (CSIR-JRF) and GATE in Mathematics. His broad area of research is Operations Research, specifically optimization and decision making under uncertainty, and Reliability. Many of his research papers are published in reputed international journals (SCI and ABDC). Also, his Ph.D. thesis has been published by Springer. He has attended and presented papers in many international seminars/ conferences held in India and abroad (Norway, China).

• Educational Qualifications
  

  PhD

  • Operations Research, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, Dissertation Title: Some Transportation Problems under Uncertain Environments, 2014.

  Masters

  • M.Sc. in Mathematics, The University of Burdwan, 2006

  Bachelors

  • B.Sc. in Mathematics (Honours), Bankura Sammilani College, 2004.
• Area of Interest And Research
  
  • Operations Research (Optimization)
  • MCDM
  • Soft computing
  • Reliability
• Teaching Courses And New Courses Developed
  
  • Operations Research
  • Business Research Methodology
  • Optimization Techniques
  • Quantitative Techniques
  • Advanced Complex Analysis
  • Mathematics- I, III
  • Optimization Theory Laboratory
• Experience
  
  • Assistant Professor, Decision Science and Operations Management, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar, India, July 2019 – onwards.
  • Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, India, January, 2018 – July, 2019.
  • Temporary Faculty, Mathematics, NIT Raipur, India, July, 2017 – December, 2017.
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IISER Kolkata, April, 2015 – March, 2017.
• Academic Positions and Assignments
  
  • Member, Center for Research, FDP, Seminar and Conferences, and Birla Global University, November 2019 – onwards.
• Recognitions and Awards
  
  • Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by CSIR, India, July 2010.
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, IISER Kolkata, April 2015 – March 2017.
  • Travel grant from the organizer of ICIAM 2015, held in Beijing, China, August 2015.
  • SIAM Student Travel Award, September 2014.
  • International travel grant by DST for VeRoLog-2014 held in Oslo, Norway, June 2014.
• Research Funding and Consulting
  
  • Project funding from NPIU-TEQIP-III for the project entitled “Formulation and solution of solid transportation problem with multiple objectives, several items and uncertain parameters”, Rs. 1,56,000, June 2018.
• Research Papers And Working Papers
  
  • Panja, A., Kundu, P. and Pradhan, B. (2021). Stochastic comparisons of lifetimes of series and parallel systems with dependent and heterogeneous components, Operations Research Letters 49(2),176-183.
  • Kundu, P., Hazra, N.K., and Nanda, A.K. (2020). Reliability study of series and parallel systems of heterogeneous component lifetimes following proportional odds model, Statistics, 54(2), 375-401.
  • De, A., Kundu, P., Das, S., and Kar, S. (2020). A ranking method based on interval type-2 fuzzy sets for multiple attribute group decision making, Soft Computing, 24(1), 131-154.
  • Kundu, P. (2019). A multi-objective reliability-redundancy allocation problem with active redundancy and interval type-2 fuzzy parameters, Operational Research. DOI: 10.1007/s12351-019-00531-y.
  • Kundu, P., Majumder, S., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2019). A method to solve linear programming problem with interval type-2 fuzzy parameters, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, 18(1), 103-130.
  • Hazra, N.K., Kundu, P., and Nanda, A.K. (2019). Some reliability properties of transformed-transformer family of distributions, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences 38(1), 44-56.
  • Majumder, S., Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Pal, T. (2019). Uncertain multi-objective multi-item fixed charge solid transportation problem with budget constraint, Soft Computing, 23(10), 3279-3301.
  • Kundu, P., and Nanda, A.K. (2018). Reliability study of proportional odds family of discrete distributions, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods 47(5) 1091-1103.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2017). A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making based on ranking interval type-2 fuzzy variables and an application to transportation mode selection problem, Soft Computing 21(11), 3051-3062.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, M.B., Kar, S, Pal T., and Maiti, M. (2017). A solid transportation model with product blending and parameters as rough variables, Soft Computing 21(9), 2297-2306.
  • Kundu, P., Hazra, N.K., and Nanda, A.K. (2016). Reliability study of coherent system with a single general standby component, Statistics & Probability Letters 110, 25-33.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2015). Multi-item solid transportation problem with type-2 fuzzy parameters, Applied Soft Computing 31, 61-80.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2014). Multi-objective solid transportation problems with budget constraint in uncertain environment, International Journal of Systems Science 45(8, 1668-1682.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2014). Fixed charge transportation problem with type-2 fuzzy variables, Information Sciences 255, 170-186.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2014). A fuzzy MCDM method and an application to solid transportation problem with mode preference, Soft Computing 18(9), 1853-1864.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2013). Multi-objective multi-item solid transportation problem in fuzzy environment, Applied Mathematical Modelling 37(4), 2028-2038.
• Research In Progress
  
  • Stochastic comparisons of lifetimes of series and parallel systems with dependent and heterogeneous components. (With A. Panja and B. Pradhan).
  • Variability and Skewness ordering of sample extremes from dependent random variables following the proportional odds model. (With A. Panja and B. Pradhan).
• Books, Chapters and Technical Reports
  

  Book Chapter

  • Kundu, P. (2015). Some transportation problems under uncertain environments. In: J.F. Peters et al. (Eds.), LNCS 8988, TRS XIX (pp 225-365), Springer.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., and Maiti, M. (2014). Type-2 fuzzy set and its applications. In: Sk Ahmed Hossain, S. Kar (Eds.), Operations Research: Recent Advances (pp. 33-50), Narosa, India.
• Editorial Positions and Reviews
  
  • Reviewer, Annals of Operations Research.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics.
• Conference, Seminar Paper and Presentations
  
  • Kundu, P., Hazra, N.K., Nanda, A.K. (Dec., 2019). Reliability study of series and parallel systems of heterogeneous component lifetimes following proportional odds model presented in International Conference on Innovations in Data and Statistical Sciences, IIT Bombay, India.
  • Kundu, P., Nanda, A.K. (March, 2016). Redundancy allocations in systems, presented in National Seminar on Probability and Statistics, University of Calcutta, India.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., Maiti, M. (August, 2015). A solid transportation model with product blending and parameters as rough variables, presented in The 8thInternational Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Bejing, China.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., Maiti, M. (June, 2014). Some solid transportation models with rough cost parameters, presented in The third meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization, Oslo, Norway.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., Maiti, M. (Dec., 2013). A method to solve linear programming problem with interval type-2 fuzzy parameters, presented in International Conference on Facets of Uncertainties and Applications, Kolkata, India.
  • Kundu, P., Kar, S., Maiti, M. (Jan., 2012). Defuzzification and interval approximation of type-2 fuzzy variables and an application to multi-item solid transportation problem with type-2 fuzzy parameters, presented in International Conference on Operational research for sustainable development in globalized environment, Kolkata, India.
• MDP Sessions, FDP, And Workshops
  
  • Attended Faculty Development Programme on Outcome-Based Learning and Case Writing organized by School of Management, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar, December 7-9, 2019.
  • Attended summer training programme on Advanced and Digital Pedagogies organised by IIT Hyderabad, June 10-14, 2019.
  • Attended Faculty Development Programme organized by Teaching Learning Centre, IIT Madras, January 31 – February 04, 2018.
• Professional Associations and Memberships
  
  • Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2015 – onwards.