Academic background
Dr. Rajesh Ranganathan is currently working as an Professor at Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India. Working at CIT, he lectures modules in Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Information Systems, Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing. He heads the Advanced Integrated Manufacturing & Management Research Group (AIMMRG) at CIT, and Director for “Centre of Excellence in Manufacturing Sciences” only center in India funded by Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India. Dr Rajesh holds various projects accounting close to 11.62 Crores. Dr Rajesh for his outstanding work on diabetic foot management, received an “Young Scientist Award” from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is integrated with Loughborough University, Imperial College London, and University of Sheffield in UK. Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Santa Baraba in USA.
He is also guiding researchers in different disciplines of manufacturing and management. He has about 18 journal publications and authored a book “Rapid Manufacturing – as an enabling technology in supply chain improvements” VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K, publisher, Germany, ISBN 978-3- 639-24820- 3 © Amazon – US and Europe. He is also an editorial board member for about 5 international journal publications.
Working in the area of Supply Chain, Dr. Rajesh holds work experience as a business consultant / knowledge transfer partnership associate working for oil & gas industry in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Dr Rajesh was also associated with University of Aberdeen, UK as a “Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate”, where he was bridging the gap between industry and academics. Prior to his career in oil & gas, Dr Rajesh worked with National Health Service UK and with a leading health care industry in Europe in the areas of strategic planning, technological forecasting, inventory reduction, product customization and manufacturing lead time reduction. Dr Rajesh obtained his doctoral degree in Additive Manufacturing, from Loughborough University, England, UK.
During his PhD, he was with the World’s leading research group “Rapid Manufacturing Research Group”.
