R. PanneerselvamR. Panneerselvam was a Faculty, Department of Management Studies, School of Management, Pondicherry University. He holds BE (Mechanical Engineering), ME (Industrial Engineering) and PhD (Industrial Engineering) degrees from Anna Univrsity. He served as a faculty in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Anna University for about seven years and then joined Pondicherry University in 1987, totalling about 40 years of teaching and research. He served as the head of the Department of Management Studies for three spells and dean of the School of Management, Pondicherry University. He specializes in operations, quantitative techniques and systems. Under his research supervision, more than 13 students have been awarded a doctoral degree in management. He has published more than 100 research articles in leading national and international journals. His h-index is 17 and i10-index is 24. Dr Panneerselvam has published 15 textbooks with two leading publishers. He carried out an overseas consultancy for CEMS, Malaysia. He received several awards, including the Best Selling Author Award from PHI Learning, the Achiever Award 2016 from Anna University for its alumnus and the Best Teacher Award from Pondicherry University.