Dr. Soumendra Kumar Patra is working as a Sr. Assistant Professor in the area of quantitative techniques and decision sciences at the Department of Business Administration, Ravenshaw University, Odisha. He is a Ph.D in the area of Operations Management from Utkal University. He has more than 24 years of rich experience in teaching and industry. Before academia, he worked in HCC Limited (Walchand Hirachand group), a leading public limited company headquartered in Mumbai.