Yuvraj Gajpal

Yuvraj Gajpal is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He holds a PhD in Management Science from DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, and a Master's in Industrial Management from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. Prior to joining the University of Manitoba, he worked as an assistant professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). He is a member of various academic societies such as INFORMS, POMS, CORS, ASAC, DSI, SOM, SCRC etc.

His research interests mainly lie in the application of heuristics and meta-heuristics in transportation and logistics management. To support his research activities, he has secured many internal and external grants, such as NSERC, Junior Faculty Research Grant (JFRG), Internal Research Grant, etc. He has published papers in leading research journals such as Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of Operational Research, Construction Management and Economics etc. Dr. Gajpal has international research collaborations with many researchers all around the world.

He is a reviewer of many international journals such as Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Heuristics, and Transportation Research Part E. He has taught courses in Management Science, Quantitative Analysis, Production and Operations Management, Project Management, Quantitative Supply Chain Management, Mathematical Optimization Models, Simulation with Arena, Statistics, Global Supply Chain Management, Engineering Economics, Cost Accounting, and Methods Engineering.

Transportation and Logistics, Vehicle routing and dispatching problem, Combinatorial Optimization, Retail Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Contract in retail market, Heuristics, Meta-heuristics, Ant colony Algorithm, Tabu Search, Genetic Algorithm, Machine Scheduling, Project Management.