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ગતિ શક્તિ વિશ્વવિદ્યાલય

गति शक्ति विश्वविद्यालय

GATI SHAKTI VISHWAVIDYALAYA

(A Central University under the Ministry of Railways, Government of India)

Faculty Profile

Dr. Preeti Rathi

Dr. Preeti Rathi

Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Kharagpur

Google Scholar Profile

Education

Ph.D. in Management 2018 - 2023 Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India 

M.Tech. (Gold Medalist) in Chemical Engineering 2013 - 2015 Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

B.E. (Hons) in Chemical Engineering 2009 - 2013 Ujjain Engineering College, M.P., India

Experience

Assistant Professor July 2026 – Present  School of Management, Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, Vadodara, Gujarat  

Assistant Professor May 2025 – July 2026 Faculty of Management Sciences, Adani University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat  

Post-Doctoral Fellow July 2023 – December 2024 Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo,  Ontario, Canada 

Teaching
  • Operations Management 
  • Quantitative Techniques
  • Supply Chain Analytics
  • Emerging Technologies in Energy
  • Operations Research 
  • Logistics Network Design and Optimization 
  • Technologies for Transportation Systems
Journal Publications
  1. 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) 
  2. 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)
Conference Publications
  1. 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. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 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
Administrative Responsibilities
  1. Faculty Mentor, MBA Second Year 

Awards and Honours
  1. MTech Gold Medalist in Chemical Engineering from IIT Gandhinagar 
  2. 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