Dr. S Yamini

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Dr. Yamini S.

Faculty of Operations and Analytics,

Department of Management Studies,

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli,

Trichy - 620015, Tamil Nadu, India.

Email: syamini@nitt.edu  |  yamini@alumni.iitm.ac.in

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BRIEF SUMMARY

Dr. Yamini is a faculty member of Operations and Analytics at the Department of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT). Before joining NITT, she worked at the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIMT) for three years as a faculty in the Operations Management and Decision Sciences area. Yamini holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. (by research) degree from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). She is a graduate of the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering. She has also worked for Cognizant Technology Solutions - Chennai.

She is a consistent performer with distinction throughout her graduation and has published papers in many reputed international journals. She has also presented her research work in various leading international conferences of repute and has received several commendable international awards. She has done projects for industries such as the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Chennai), Rane Brakes & Linings Limited (Chennai) and Integral Coach Factory (Chennai). She is a member of the Production and Operations Management Society (USA), EURO Working Group on Ethics & OR, Operations Research Society of India and Society of Operations Management.

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Degree

Institution

Ph.D. (Operations Management)

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

M.S. (by Research)

        Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

B.E. (Industrial Engineering)

College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Duration

Organization

Mar 2020 – Present

Assistant Professor, Operations and Analytics, Department of Management Studies,

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

Feb 2017 – Feb 2020

 

Assistant Professor, Operations Management and Decision Sciences,

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

July 2011 – Jan 2017

Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Aug 2010 – June 2011

Programmer Analyst, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • Ph.D. research work received the “Highly Commended Outstanding Doctoral Research Award 2018” by Emerald Publishers and EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development)
  • Received the “Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award” in the 27th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society held at Orlando, USA during May 2016
  • Received the “Highly Commended Paper Award” by Emerald Publishers in the 19th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIM Calcutta, India during December 2015
  • Master’s Thesis was selected as one of the three finalists for the “EthOR Award” by the EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR in the 26th EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference held at Rome, Italy during July 2013
  • Received the “Best Paper Award” in the Doctorial Consortium of the 16th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIT Delhi, India during December 2012
  • Recipient of Half-time Teaching and Research Assistantship awarded by MHRD during M.S. and Ph.D.
  • Received First graduate Scholarship from the Government of Tamil Nadu

 

ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Coordinator of NITT Skill Hub Centre, Sponsored by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship under PMKVY 4.0 scheme

  • Successfully completed training of 15 batches for various courses
  • 300+ participants benefited from the program

March 2023 - Present

Organising Committee Member of EBSB Yuva Sangamam at NITT

April-May 2023

Faculty advisor of Pixelbug and Filmsociety of NITT

Aug 2023 – Present

Faculty advisor of Music Club of NITT

July 2021 – July 2023

Organising Committee Member of Institute Annual Convocation at NITT

 

Faculty Coordinator of the INACON’23 Business Conclave, NITT

2023

Faculty Coordinator of the Placement Committee at DoMS, NITT

July 2022 - Present

Faculty Coordinator of the OpEx, Operations Club

July 2020 - Present

Faculty Coordinator of the Corporate Relations Committee, NITT

July 2020 - Present

Faculty Coordinator of the PhD Admissions at DoMS, NITT

Jan 2021, July 2022, Jan 2023

Faculty Coordinator of the MBA Admissions at DoMS, NITT

2022, 2023, 2024

Internal Complaints Committee Member at IIMT

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Operations Research
  • Productions Operations Management
  • Services Operations Management
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Supply Chain and Logistics Management
  • Behavioural Dynamics in Decision Making
  • Stochastic Modelling and Applications
  • Advanced Optimisation

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Industry 4.0 and 5.0
  • Food Supply Chain
  • Retail Supply Chain
  • Quality Management
  • Behavioural Operations
  • Behavioural Economics
  • Contracts, Mechanism Design and Game Theory
  • Physical Ergonomics
  • Operational Excellence

 

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2024

Integration and implementation of LSS 4.0 Practices: A perspective from manufacturing and service sector

Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2024

A Qualitative Analysis of Customer Acquisition in Online Fitness Communities

Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini | Year – 2024

The integration of retail supply chain and Industry 4.0 – A Bibliometric analysis and insights for future research

Journal: International Journal of Services and Operations Management [ABDC – C, SCI Indexed]

Jiju Antony, Arshia Kaul, Michael Sony, Navjit Singh, Priya Vij, Shreeranga Bhat, S. Yamini and Alessandro Laureani | Year – 2024

A study into the themes of quality management: early findings from a global research project and agenda for future research

Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

V. Kamala, M.S. Gajanand and S. Yamini | Year – 2024

Ergonomic Risks affecting the performance of Work-from-Home Employees in IT Industry: A Comprehensive Analysis

Journal: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2024

Cognitive biases in decision making during the pandemic: Insights and viewpoint from people behaviour

Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

Pranav Sanjay Sutar, Gaurav Kolte, S. Yamini, and K Mathiyazhagan | Year – 2024

Food supply chain resilience in the digital era: a bibliometric analysis and development of conceptual framework

Journal: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing [ABDC – A, SCI Indexed]

G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2024

Lean Six Sigma 4.0–a framework and review for Lean Six Sigma practices in the digital era

Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2024

Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 – A Bibliometric Analysis and Conceptual Framework Development.

Journal: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini | Year – 2023

Impact of loss aversion on the newsvendor problem: A literature review and insights for the future researchers

Journal: OPSEARCH [ABDC – C, SCI Indexed]

G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2023

A State of the Art of Lean Six Sigma in the Indian Context – 21st century: A Bibliometric Analysis

Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

G. Citybabu and S. Yamini | Year – 2022

The implementation of Lean Six Sigma framework in the Indian context: a review and suggestions for future research.

Journal: The TQM Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2022

Effect of manufacturer's flexible returns policy in a duopolistic competition

Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini | Year – 2022

Supply chain contracts with price and effort dependent demand

Journal: International Journal of Services and Operations Management [ABDC – C, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini | Year – 2021

A comparative study of returns contract with no returns contract under monopoly and duopoly settings

Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini and M.S. Gajanand | Year – 2021

Inventory decision-making biases - A review and suggestions for future research

Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

C. Gayathri, V. Kamala, M.S. Gajanand and S. Yamini | Year – 2021

Analysis of operational and financial performance of ports: an integrated fuzzy DEMATEL-TOPSIS approach

Journal: Benchmarking: An International Journal [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini | Year – 2021

A Literature review on the anomalies observed in the newsvendor ordering decisions

Journal: International Journal of Enterprise Network Management [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini | Year – 2020

Behavioral perspective of newsvendor ordering decisions: review, analysis and insights

Journal: Management Decision [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2018

Mathematical model to mitigate planning fallacy and to determine realistic delivery time

Journal: IIMB management review [ABDC – B, SCI Indexed]

 

EDITED BOOK CHAPTERS

S. Yamini| Year – 2021

Behavioural Operations Management: Trends and Insights.

Book title: Emerging Frontiers in Operations and Supply Chain Management: Theory and Applications, Springer, Singapore.

R. Vidya, S. Yamini, A.C. Thomas, S. Singh, and S. M. Santhakumar | Year – 2023

An Insight Review on Cognitive Bias for Advanced Driver Assistance System

Book title: The Future of Road Transportation, CRC Press

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

G. Citybabu, G and S. Yamini | Year – 2023

Identification of Critical Skills for Successful Implementation of LSS 4.0

Conference: 10th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

G. Citybabu, G and S. Yamini | Year – 2022

Exploration of Lean Six Sigma in the Indian context: A Literature review

Conference: 4th International Conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Applications, Anna University, Chennai

S. Yamini | Year – 2019

Behavioural aspects of inventory decision-making

Conference: 10th POMS-HK International Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

S. Yamini | Year – 2019

Why stakeholders prefer performance-based contracting?

Conference: 10th POMS-HK International Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

S. Yamini | Year – 2018

How manufacturers can keep up with retailers while making inventory decisions?

Conference: 22nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIM Kozhikode, India

S. Yamini | Year – 2017

Effect of returns policy in a duopolistic competition

Conference: 11th Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute International Conference, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India

S. Yamini | Year – 2017

Influence of returns policy on supply chain coordination

Conference: 11th Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute International Conference, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2017

Mechanism design to mitigate the information asymmetry in a construction project

Conference: 21st Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, Ahmedabad University, India

S. Yamini, Sundara Natarajan and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2016

A deterministic and probabilistic approach of intertemporal choices of individuals

Conference: 20th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIITM Gwalior, India

S. Yamini, Sundara Natarajan and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2016

An experimental analysis of inter-temporal choices of individuals

Conference: SPJIMR - POMS India Chapter Conference on Big Data Analytics for Optimising Supply chains, Mumbai, India

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2016

Mathematical model to mitigate planning fallacy and to determine realistic estimate of time

Conference: 27th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management, Orlando, USA

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2015

Mathematical model to mitigate planning fallacy and to determine realistic estimate of time

Conference: 19th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIM Calcutta, India

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2015

Economic view of planning fallacy to determine realistic delivery time`

Conference: 26th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management, Washington, USA

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2015

Hidden Markov Model to identify the time preference of individuals

Conference: 26th Annual International Conference of the Production and Operations Management, Washington, USA

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2014

Contract with agents having imperfect memory and time inconsistent preferences

Conference: 18th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Roorkee, India

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2014

Hidden Markov Chain model for Procrastinators

Conference: 18th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Roorkee, India

S. Yamini, Kavitha, C., and Arshinder Kaur | Year – 2013

Analysis of effort induced demand on returns policies with retail competition

Conference: 17th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Madras, India

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2013

Optimal contracts in construction projects to mitigate information asymmetry

Conference: 26th EURO - INFORMS Joint International conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2013

A game theoretic framework to mitigate unethical behaviour in construction projects

Conference: 26th EURO - INFORMS Joint International conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2012

Value of information for perfect monitoring of the contractor while designing contract in the construction

Conference: 16th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Delhi, India

S. Yamini and Rahul R. Marathe | Year – 2012

Model for imperfect monitoring of contractor to reduce information asymmetry on the quality in construction

Conference: 16th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Delhi, India

 

CHAIR OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS / INVITED SPEAKER

Yamini. S. | Year – 2020

Conference: 6th Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (INDAM 2020), IIM Tiruchirappalli, India, January 2020

Yamini. S. | Year – 2019

Conference: 10th POMS-HK International Conference, City university of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 2019

Yamini. S. | Year – 2017

Conference: 11th ISDSI International Conference, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India, December 2017

Yamini. S. | Year – 2016

Conference: National Mathematics Initiative Workshop and Conference on Game Theory and Optimisation, IIT Madras, India, June 2016

 

INVITED TALKS / OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Guest Sessions at Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli for PGPM and PGPBM Executives, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade for MBA, Delhi, Neyveli Lignite Corporation for Executives, Thiagaraja College of Engineering, Madurai for M.Tech and Thiagaraja School of Management for MBA

Doctoral Committee Member, External Expert – College of Engineering Guindy, AU; Vellore Institute of Technology Business School; Amrita School of Business

Resource Person for FDP sponsored by ATAL and TIDITSSIA

Syllabus Committee Member – College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University

Question Paper setting – Anna University

Member of the judging panel of many Technical events and symposium

 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES

  • Life-time member of the Society of Operations Management
  • Life-time member of the Operations Research Society of India
  • Member of the Production and Operations Management Society
  • Member of the EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR