Education
IISc Bangalore | Department of Management Studies | Bangalore | India [Feb 2021- Present]
PhD in Operations Management
Area of Research: Development of Analytic Methods for a Class of Decision Problems in Urban Road Transportation Organizations (URTOs) to Minimize the Operational Cost of City Buses
CGPA: 9.7/10, Credits Taken: 27
National Institute of Technology Durgapur | Civil Engineering | Durgapur | India [Aug 2015- May 2019]
Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering
Gold Medallist | First Class First with Distinction | First rank in the department
CGPA: 8.97/10
Selected under Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme 2016 by the Department of Military Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India under the National Defence Fund for pursuing B.Tech
Offered summer internship by Larsen & Toubro Construction under the ‘INsPirE’ scheme which resulted into a Pre- Placement Offer (PPO) on 16th August 2018
Kendriya Vidyalaya IIM Joka | Kolkata | India [Apr 2008- May 2015]
Senior School Certificate Examination
Percentage: 94.6%
Secondary School Examination
CGPA: 10/10
Awarded the Certificate of Merit from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for reasons of outstanding performance and obtaining grade A1 in all the five subjects in the secondary school examination
Secured an All-India Rank of 28 and a Regional Rank of 11 in the merit of the 15th Junior Mathematical Olympiad (JMO) 2012 organized by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (HQ) New Delhi
Professional Experience
Senior Civil Engineer, Larsen and Toubro Ltd. Construction, RP Goenka International School Project, Kolkata, India Jul 2020- Jan 2021]
Prepared Accepted Cost Estimate (ACE), work orders, subcontractor and client bills for the RPGIS green building project worth 108.1 crores and performed monthly tracking of job cost variance status with the help of Job Cost Report (JCR)
Accomplished cost and time optimization in construction phase by efficient utilization of lean construction methodology and principles at project site leading to 70% increase in productivity
Performed a detailed time motion analysis (TMA) and micro-level sampling of work and workmen to identify and eliminate potential time wasters (with maximum Non-Value Added (NVA) attributes > 50%) and proposed suitable solutions to accelerate the overall project progress
Implemented ten digitalization apps to reduce the paper work at site
Graduate Engineer Trainee, Larsen and Toubro Ltd. Construction, Viveka Tirtha Project, Kolkata, India [Jul 2019-Jun 2020]
Prepared a Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) Register for shuttering activity and an Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Action Plan against the health objective of improving the living condition of habitat by providing dining hall at workmen habitat
Prepared project quality objectives and a risk register as a part of risk management guideline
Prepared the concrete mix design of M30 grade
Performed the quantity take off for the Art Institute and the Centre for Human Excellence Building for shuttering and concrete, along with reconciliation of bulk materials
Prepared the bar bending schedule of pile caps, floor beams and slabs of the buildings
Summer Trainee, Larsen and Toubro Ltd. Construction, Kolkata, India [May 2018- Jul 2018]
Prepared the productivity sheet of brickwork and calculated the measurement to be given to the masons, helpers along with the supervisor.
Calculated the quantity of concrete and reinforcement by making the bill of quantities (BOQ) of flex system for a part of the Centre for Human Excellence building and matched with the site accordingly.
Publications
Conferences:
Ghosh, R., & Mathirajan, M. (2022, July 26-28). Efficient Heuristic Methods for Minimizing the Cost of City Bus Operations of Indian Urban Road Transportation Organizations. Paper presented (online) at the 5th European Conference Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Rome, Italy. https://ieomsociety.org/proceedings/2022rome/289.pdf
Ghosh, R., & Mathirajan, M. (2022, December 15-17). Efficient Heuristic Methods for Minimizing the Dead Kilometer Cost of the Indian Urban Road Passenger Transport System. Paper presented (offline) at the International Conference on Optimization, Learning and Analytics in Business (OLAB), Kolkata, India
Research Experience
Final Year Undergraduate Thesis Project, NIT Durgapur, Durgapur, India [Aug 2018- May 2019]
Performed the seismic analysis, design and ductile detailing of a G+5 multistoried reinforced concrete (RCC) building with symmetric configuration
Reviewed the clauses related to structures as per the fifth and sixth revisions of IS 1893 (Part 1) and compared the differences in the clauses of old IS 13920:1993 and its first revision IS 13920:2016
Programming Languages
C, C++, Python, R
LINDO, LINGO