Boby John is currently a Technical Officer at Statistical Quality Control & Operations Research (SQC & OR) Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. He received the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering Sciences from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum and the Master of Technology degree in Quality, Reliability & Operations Research from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He is engaged in teaching and consulting in the fields of Six Sigma, Quality & Reliability Engineering, Business Analytics, Data Mining, Design of Experiments, Process Performance Modelling, Optimization, etc. Boby has published around twenty papers in international journals and presented many papers in international conferences. He has also edited a book titled “Quality and reliability engineering: recent trends and future directions”. As a consultant from Indian Statistical Institute, he has provided services to a wide range of industries including Caterpillar, Ernst and Young, Tata Steel, Ultra Tech Cements, Altran Technologies, Toyota Industries, Airbus, Adani Power, SIAM, Titan, Micro Labs, L&T Infotech, Hical Technologies, Tractors India, Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture, Huawei, Samsung, Deloitte, Mindtree, Infosys, Hinduja Global Solutions, Cross-domain, TVS, Bharat Electronics, Tally solutions, Honeywell, Wipro, Adobe, Apollo Munich, Hewlett Packard, Visionet, Siemens, Tesco, Cognizant, First source, Robert Bosch, IBM, Unisys, Tory Harris, Nokia Siemens, Harihar Polyfibers, etcHe has organized an international conference on quality and reliability engineering and conducted around thirty workshops and training programs on data mining and business analytics, six sigma green belt & black belt, data exploration and modelling, quantitative project management, design of experiments, etc. He also conducts programs using data analysis packages like SAS, R, Python, SPSS, Minitab, etc. Boby John can be contacted at: boby@isibang.ac.in