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Krishna C. Jha
Assistant Vice President - Research & Development
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Dr. Krishna Jha is an Assistant Vice President of Research & Development at Innovative Scheduling. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, India, his M.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. His Ph.D. dissertation involved cutting-edge research on Very Large-Scale Neighborhood Search, a very powerful technique for solving complex decision problems. Krishna’s strengths center on efficiently solving highly constrained combinatorial optimization problems. Krishna is an expert in network optimization and heuristic techniques. He has a successful track record of designing and deploying products that are tailored to customers’ needs. Customers appreciate his attention to detail, his respect for project budgets, and his success at meeting deadlines.
Krishna has been working at Innovative Scheduling since its inception and has managed the development and implementation of several decision support systems, including the train scheduling optimizer, the crew scheduling optimizer, and the network flow analyzer. Prior to Innovative Scheduling, he worked as an industrial engineer and as a supply executive for four years at Tata Steel, the largest private steel manufacturer in India. While at Tata Steel, Krishna completed projects in workforce planning, incentive planning, performance improvement, benchmarking, capital schemes evaluation, supply-chain management, and total quality management.
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