Dr Alok Choudhary
Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
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Dr. Alok Choudhary is a Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Management School of the University of Sheffield. He is also acting as a key member for the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre. In recent years, he has contributed to several research projects including SYNERGY, TRACKSTORE, SAMULET etc., funded by European Commission (FP7), EPSRC and industries including Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Ministry of Defence and TATA Motors Ltd (INDIA) to name a few on topics related to knowledge management (particularly knowledge discovery) and Logistics and Supply Chain management. He has consulting experience with McKinsey & Company. He has been placed in the scientific committee and session chair of several international conferences of repute including recent IEEE INDIN, PROVE-10, IESA-10 and IESM 2011. He has published about 38 papers in leading international journals and conferences. He is also acting as a reviewer of 13 leading international journals. He is involved in training and consultancy activities with the LSCM research centre at the University of Sheffield. He has also received two best paper awards in leading international conferences. He holds a PhD in the area of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Loughborough University, UK where he received "Lufbra Experience Award" for outstanding contribution to Loughborough University and the Students Union.
Alok is Programme Director for the MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
His education includes PhD in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK, (2009)and Bachelor of Technology, National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), Ranchi University, India, (2005).
See more about Alok's achievements here.
Research Interests
- Knowledge based approaches for logistics, supply chain and operations management
- Knowledge management for collaborative networked organization
- Green logistics and low carbon supply chain
- Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Manufacturing/Supply Chain/Service Industry
- Application of artificial intelligence, mathematical modelling and optimization techniques to solve supply chain, logistics, production planning, scheduling and process development problems
- Intelligent techniques for risk prediction, analysis and management for Resilient Supply Chain
Teaching
- Module Leader for MGT214: Project Management
- MGT6046: Operations Management
- MGT136: Operations Management
- Actively involved in developing modules for Masters in Logistics and Supply Chain Management e.g. Supply Chain Technology and Logistics System
- Visiting Lecturer to several leading universities in Europe and India on Project Management, Supply Chain Management
Publications
Selected recent publications include:
N. Cheikhrouhou, M. Pouly, C. Huber and A. K. Choudhary, "An Empirical Study on Human and Information Technology Aspects in Collaborative Enterprise Networks", Accepted for publication in the Special Issue of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (Publication Date 2011).
A.K.Choudhary, J.A.Harding, H. K. Lin, M. K. Tiwari and R. Shankar, "Knowledge discOvery And daTa minINg inteGrated (KOATING) Moderators For Collaborative Projects" Accepted for publication in International journal of Production Research (Publication Date 2011).
A. K. Choudhary, J. A. Harding, R. Swarnkar, B. P. Das and R. I. Young, "Learning Collaboration Moderator Services: Supporting Knowledge Based Collaboration", PRO-VE´10, 11th IFIP conference on Virtual Enterprise, 11-13th Oct 2010, Saint, Etienne, France.
P. Carrillo, J. Harding, A. K. Choudhary, P. Oluikpe, "Learning from post project reviews", AEC 2010, Pennsylvania, USA, June 2010.