Dr. Preeti Rathi

Designation: Assistant Professor

Academic Area: Operations Management

Brief Profile:

Dr. Preeti Rathi is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Management Sciences at Adani University. She specializes in analyzing and solving real-world operational planning problems through the power of discrete optimization tools. Her research explores complex decision-making processes across transportation, manufacturing, and analytical services, aiming to develop innovative solutions in these sectors.
She has worked in interdisciplinary areas of Operations Research, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, and Fire and Safety Engineering. Her expertise has led to publications in renowned journals such as Computers & Industrial Engineering journal, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research journal, with several papers in pipeline.
Before joining Adani University, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Waterloo in Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering, an M.Tech in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in decision support systems for planning contemporary intermodal freight operations. With her diverse academic background and dedication to problem-solving, she continues to push the boundaries of operational efficiency and decision-making in complex industries.


  • Ph.D. in Operations Research from Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2023
  • M.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 2015
  • B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Ujjain Engineering College (Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal), 2013

  • Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (2023 – 2024)
  • Junior Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from (2015 – 2017)

  • Nielsen Award for excellence in research to participate in a Summer Internship at Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore from 4th June 2014 to 25th July 2014
  • Scored All India Rank of 898 (top 6%) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2013

  • Discrete Optimization, Mathematical Modelling, Heuristics, Intermodal Transport, Planning and Scheduling, Indian Railways, Container Terminals

  • Rathi, P., & Upadhyay, A. (2022). Container retrieval and wagon assignment planning at container rail terminals. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 108626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2022.108626. (ABDC A, Impact factor 7.18, Q1, SCIE)
  • Rathi, P., Bhumireddy, S. M., Nandola, N. N., Harjunkoski, I., & Srinivasan, R. (2016). Integrating Production Control and Scheduling in Multisite Enterprises on the basis of Real-Time Detection of Divergence. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 55(19), 5681-5695. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.5b04626. (Impact factor 4.3, Q1, SCIE)
  • Preeti Rathi and Amit Upadhyay. “Assigning managers to construction projects using stable matching” paper presented at International Conference on Shaping the Future of Management Education for Sustainable Emerging Economies, IIT Roorkee, November, 2022.
  • Preeti Rathi and Amit Upadhyay. “Improving the efficiency of container handling equipment on the rail-side of a container terminal” paper presented at Management Doctoral Colloquium, IIT Kharagpur, February, 2021.
  • Preeti Rathi, Shanmukha Manoj Bhumireddy, Naresh N. Nandola, Iiro Harjunkoski and Rajagopalan Srinivasan. “Integrating Control and Scheduling based on Real-Time Detection of Divergence” paper presented at the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2015

  • Transportation sector
  • Analytical services sector
  • Manufacturing sector

  • Programing languages and Software skills: MATLAB, Python, CPLEX, OPL, Julia