Dr. Nidhi Ahuja is currently associated with IILM as an Assistant Professor. She has over 13 years of extensive experience working as an academic at several well-known B-schools. She is an avid researcher with publications indexed in Scopus and ABDC category journals. She has completed her Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi and obtained her M.Phil. and M.Sc. degree in Operational Research. Moreover, she has done her graduation in B.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics from University of Delhi. She has participated in various Faculty Development Programs, workshops, lecture series and seminars. In addition, she has attended and presented papers in several national and international conferences. Her research interests include modelling and optimisation in Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

Ph.D. (Supply Chain Management), M.Phil. (Operational Research), M.Sc. (Operational Research), B. Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics

13+ years in Research and Teaching

• Optimization Models
• Forward Supply Chain Management
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Supplier Management
• Transportation and Procurement Planning
• MCDM Techniques

• Bhayana N., Kaur S., Jha P.C. (2014): “A Hybrid Performance Evaluation Approach for Supplier Selection under Fuzzy Environment”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer India, Heidelberg New York, Dordrecht London. Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocPros 2014), Volume 336, 2014 pp. 463-476 ISBN 978-81-322-2219-4. (Q4 quartile)
• Bhayana N., Gandhi K., Jha P.C. (2015): A hybrid multi-criteria decision making approach for sustainable supplier selection under grey system environment. Published in Analytics in Operations / Supply Chain Management, I.K. International Publishing House Pvt Ltd., ISBN: 978-93-84588-94-6, 2015, pp. 158 – 180.
• Bhayana N., Gandhi K., Jha P.C. (2016). “Hybrid multi – criteria decision making approach for supplier evaluation in fuzzy environment”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer India, Heidelberg New York, Dordrecht London. Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocPros 2015) Volume 437, 2016, pp. 991-1009. (Q4 quartile)
• Ahuja, N., Sharma, A., & Dagar, S. (2018). “Evaluation of Quality Parameters in Higher Education using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)”. Revamping India’s Higher Education System: Issues, Challenges and Implications, pp. 141 – 149. E-ISBN: 978-93-5288-993-8.
• Yadavalli, V. S., Darbari, J. D., Bhayana, N., Jha, P. C., & Agarwal, V. (2019). An Integrated Optimization Model for Selection of Sustainable Suppliers Based on Customers’ Expectations. Operations Research Perspectives, 100113. (Q1 quartile)
• Bhayana, N., Gandhi, K., Jha, P. C., & Aditi, B. (2019). An Integrated Supplier Selection Approach in Supply Chain System under Fuzzy Environment. Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 29(4), 483-505. (Q4 quartile)
• Bhayana, N., Gandhi, K., Jain, A., Darbari, J. D., & Jha, P. C. (2021). An integrated grey-based multi-criteria optimisation approach for sustainable supplier selection and procurement-distribution planning. International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, 13(1), 39-91. (Q3 quartile)
• Bhayana, N., Ms. Riya (2021). Market Demand Forecast Method Selection and their Application: A Case Study in Hero Motocorp Ltd. Anusandhan: The Research Repository of GIBS, Volume-4, Issue-1(2021), ISSN 2581-9968 and RNI No. : DELENG/2018/76865, 119-124.
• Kaur, R., & Ahuja, N. (2023). Impediments to Adopt NEP 2020 & Integrate ICT in Indian Educational Ecosystem. European Economic Letters (EEL), 13(5), 768-773. (ABDC – C category)

* Presented papers in various national and international conferences

• Certifications in Power BI essential Training, Power BI Data Modeling with DAX and Python for Data Visualization from LinkedIn Learning.
• Attended a Course on “Swarm and Evolutionary Algorithms: Theory and Applications” held on November 24-25, 2018 at South Asian University, New Delhi.
• Attended “SCRS Lecture Series on Soft Computing” organized by Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi from May 30, 2020 to June 1, 2020.
• Attended “SCRS Lecture Series on Soft Computing” organized by Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi from June 12-16, 2020.
• Attended one week online Certificate Course on “Digital Teaching Techniques” from June 29, 2020 to July 4, 2020 organized by ICT Academy.

• Operations Research
• Quantitative Techniques / Decision Sciences
• Business Analytics using Python Programming
• Business Statistics
• Research Methodology
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• Project Management
• Total Quality Management