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Dr. Imran Haider
Dr. Imran Haider

Assistant Professor, BAIT

Dr. Imran Haider is an Assistant Professor at IMT Nagpur. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, where his research focused on optimization and AI-based approaches that enable smarter decision-making in real-world airline operations. At the intersection of operations research and applied AI, Dr. Haider’s work centers on building rigorous, scalable models that translate operational complexity into actionable insights for aviation and allied sectors. He teaches and mentors in areas related to operations and analytics, drawing on cross-disciplinary training to connect theory, computation, and implementation. Dr. Haider is passionate about using data and technology to make transportation, logistics, supply chains, and healthcare work more efficiently and sustainably. His research also explores how businesses can adapt to the digital age. He has shared his work in leading international conferences and journals, including Computers & Industrial Engineering, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and International Journal of Production Economics.

Academic Biography
  • PhD (Applied optimization and AI/ML), Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
  • M.Tech (Industrial & Production Engineering), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
  • B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Work Experience
  • Assistant Professor – Business Analytics & Information Technology, Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Nagpur, India (May 2026 – present)
  • Assistant Professor – Operations & Analytics, VIT Business School, VIT University, Vellore, India (March 2025 – April 2026)
Academic Unit
  • Machine Learning
  • Business Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Statistics
  • Supply chain Management
Research Interest
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Large scale optimization
  • Applied AI/ML
  • Digital Transformation
  • Transportation, Logistics and Supply chain management
Research Publications

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Conference Proceedings

  • Punjabi, K., Haider, I. & Sen, G. Combinatorial Search Space Reduction Approach In Aircraft Schedule Recovery Problem in IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) (2023) (2023), 0697–0701.
  • Haider, I., Choudhary, S. & Sen, G. Efficient Heuristic for Aircraft Schedule Recovery Problem in Pati, R.K., & Jinil, P. eds., “Project Management in the Emerging World of Disruption”, Kozhikode Publishers (PMI Organization Centre Pvt. Ltd) (2022), 199–207.
  • Bandopadhyay, S., Gaula, A. K., Haider, I. & Kumar, G. Chili-Net: An Approach for Classifying Chili Leaf Diseases Using Deep Neural Networks in Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence (Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024), 45–55. isbn: 978-3-031-66594-3.
  • Bandopadhyay, S., Dutta, S., Haider, I., Anuraag, B., Zhu, J., & Bazaz, S. A. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Data Generation in Addressing Imbalance in Binary Classification System in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI) 2 (2024), 1–4.
  • Babu, S., Kumar, G. & Haider, I. Enhancing Diabetic Retinopathy Detection with Image Processing Techniques and Deep Learning EfficientNetB0: A Comparative Analysis in Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence (Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024), 75–86. isbn: 978-3-031-66594-3.
Achievements
  • Best paper presentation award at Research Colloquium’22, IIT Kharagpur
  • MHRD Scholarship for M.Tech and PhD
  • MHRD Travel grant
  • Qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers (GATE) examination seven times