Vijay Gupta, Phd Email & Phone Number

Ahmedabad, Gj, In

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Work closely with Adani Group CTO and business leaders to generate value with digital interventions using AI/OR solutions• Built several Optimization/AI/Hybrid AI-OR solutions for Adani Ports, Airports, Cements, Green Energy, ATGL and AESL businesses. Showcase these solutions to senior leaders and received multiple positive feedback from businesses/users for these applications. • The solutions deployed have generated significant business value aligning with business strategic direction.• Set up OR function in Adani Group from scratch and showcase the power of mathematical programming in data-driven decision-making to businesses. Built a team of OR/AI professionals to deliver end-to-end business solutions.• Involved in strategic discussions of Adani AI Labs and identified collaboration opportunities for internal/external customers, academic institutions, and partners. Attended conferences to gain external perspective and published paper/abstract in international/domestic conferences.• Visited various Adani sites (Solar Manufacturing, Power, Port Terminals, Wilmar, Cements, AGEL) to enhance business understanding, identified OR/AI opportunities and built customized solutions to meet business needs.• Enrolled in Takshashila – Adani Leadership Development program in collaboration with ISB, Hyderabad.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Advise the team on algorithms, product development, UX and business development for end-to-end supply chain solutions on cloud platform• Led the development of Linehaul Plan Optimizer tool (PRIMA) for FTL (full truckload) carriers• Conceptualize and lead projects in the area of last-mile/mid-mile Vehicle Routing considering operational constraints and solution strategies using exact/metaheuristic algorithms in Google OR tools

Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead Online Real-time optimization (RTO) model developments and implementations at Shell sites for higher margins• Develop Data reconciliation, monitoring and large-scale optimization models for LNG, GTL, Refineries and Chemicals plants; Visualization of key KPIs to enable informed decision-making for the businesses• Manage development of innovative data science/machine learning approaches to extract patterns from the data to improve business operations and their profitability, and receive customer feedback from the project delivery• Develop and operate solutions that optimize and automate business decisions using large data sets and algorithms• Collaborate with various vendors, customers and universities to build and deliver cross business R&D applications

Houston, Texas Area

• Develop decision support solutions to enable Operational Excellence in petrochemical plants and oil & gas production• Build Asset Monitoring applications (Smart Perform) such as heater, heat exchanger, olefins furnace, conversion unit (hydrocracker, catalytic cracker) and corrosion monitoring in ARPM/ROMeo for various upstream/downstream sites to improve their efficiency/reliability • Build data-based monitoring applications such as Production Universe (PU) for estimating the well flow rates• Run and maintain these applications, and assess the saving associated to the improved performance• Organize technical presentations; Mentor junior engineers and work with diverse group of people across the world• Improving work processes and procedures for modeling and optimization projects at Shell

Houston, Texas Area

Develop a new algorithm for stochastic MILP models using Lagrangean decomposition approach and integer programming sensitivity analysisImplement the algorithm in AIMMS and benchmark the results against standard subgradient method

Drtc, Newark, De

Develop Integrated model for Optimal Production-Distribution planning of an Industrial Gases supply-chain, Assessing the benefits of coordination

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Advanced Process Systems Engineering (2010)Chemical Process Systems Design (2009)Chemical Engineering Process Control (2009)

Gurgaon, India

SAP-ABAP application development in Finance, Sales and Distribution modules for the clients

Vadodara Area, India

Worked on Planning and Profitability monitoring aspects like Crude oil Evaluation,Cost reduction and Profit maximization in the refinery, Develop Simulation Model for multicomponant distillation column of a Linear Alkyl Benzene plant of refinery, Completed Industrial Health and Safety Training

Dehra Dun Area, India

Process development for Industrial Biodegradable Lubricants from non-edible vegetable oils

Executive Certification, Strategy And Digital Transformation

Executive Education for Strategic Leadership Development. Modules include Strategy, Operational Excellence, Design Thinking, Finance.

Phd, Chemical Engineering & Optimization, 3.93/4.00

Activities and Societies: Member of Center for Advanced process Decision Making (CAPD), Enterprise-wide-optimization (EWO), ChEGSA.

B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, 8.27/10.00

Activities and Societies: Editor of LION- IIT Roorkee annual literary magazine (2006) Executive member of Annual Cultural Festival.

Higher Secondary, Science-Maths, 90%

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Optimization