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Functional Area - Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Official e-mail ID arnab.chakraborty@isbm.ac.in
Arnab Chakraborty is an researcher and faculty in the areas of Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management, with research expertise in adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Human-Centric AI (Industry 5.0), and the digital transformation of complex service and transportation systems. Trained at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, he develops advanced decision-support and multi-criteria analytical frameworks to enable sustainable and responsible technology adoption in the air cargo and logistics sector.
His work has been presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, widely regarded as the world’s most prestigious gathering of management scholars, and is supported by highly coveted funding from the Indian Council of Social Science Research for international research dissemination. He is committed to experiential, analytics-driven research and teaching, and strengthening industry–academia collaboration for institutional excellence.
• PhD (Thesis submitted), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
• MBA- University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun
• MBA- University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun
• Core Course
• Quantitative Techniques I & II
• Operations Management
• Logistics and supply Chain Management
• Business Reseaerch Methods
• Project Title: Sustainable Development of Electric Vehicle Battery Infrastructure in India: Challenges, Circular Economy Integration, and Policy Measures. Funding Agency: Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
• Project Title: Safety Concerns and Regulatory Roadblocks in making LNG a mass alternative to LPG: A study carried out in Ahmedabad and Vadodara. Funding Agency: Jindal Energy Limited
• Chakraborty, A., & Rani, M. V. (2025). From Resistance to Readiness: Mapping Organizational Barriers to AI Adoption in the Air Cargo Sector. Presentation at the 4th IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Conference: Asia-Pacific (TEMSCON-ASPAC 2025), Bangkok, Thailand, 14–16 September 2025.
• Chakraborty, A., & Rani, M. V. (2025). Paving the way for artificial intelligence driven transformation in the air cargo industry. Presentation at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2025), Copenhagen, Denmark, 25–29 July 2025. DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2025.13014 abstract
• Chakraborty, A., & Rani, M. V. (2025). Driving AI integration in air cargo: Exploring cause-effect dynamics of key enablers. Presented at the 15th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM2025), Singapore, 18–20 February 2025. https://doi.org/10.46254/AN15.20250463.
• Chakraborty, A., & Rani, M. V. (2024). Navigating barriers: AI adoption in air cargo industry. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM2024), Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 0775–0779. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM62345.2024.10857093
• Chakraborty, A., & Rani, M. V. (2024). Optimizing air cargo terminal operations: A model for alleviating unloading bay bottlenecks through truck scheduling. Presented at the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO2024), Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 June–3 July 2024
• Chakraborty, A., & Rani, M. V. (2023). Modelling truck scheduling system to decongest unloading bays in air cargo terminal. Presented at the 56th Annual Convention of ORSI & 10th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI), 18–20 December 2023, IISc Bangalore
• Chakraborty, A (2017). LNG as a Mass Alternative Fuel: A Study of Safety Concerns, Presented at the National Conference on Rural India : Strategizing Business organized by Asian School of Business Management, Bhubaneswar, 19-20 January 2017, Page no : 167-172 , ISBN-13: 978-1542495318, ISBN-10: 1542495318
• Received coveted ICSSR International Travel Grant for Attending the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
• Second Prize – Doctoral Dissertation Competition – 15th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2025), Singapore
• Best Paper Award Nomination – IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, Paper: Navigating Barriers: AI Adoption in Air Cargo Industry
• UGC-NET Qualified – National Eligibility Test (Management), University Grants Commission (UGC), India
• Consistent outstanding teaching feedback by PG students of ISB&M Pune (average 4.75/5)