Kanchan Kushwaha

Professional Membership

• Operational Research Society of India (Membership No: 1516/K/23/ML)
• Indian Mathematical Society (Membership No: L/2023/112)

Awards & Achievements

• Awarded CSIR Foreign Travel Grant by the Government of India, to attend and present paper at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics and Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2026) held at Cebu, Philippines.
• Awarded Best Poster Award in the track “Optimization, Logistics & Supply Chain Management”, at the 89th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving held at IIT Roorkee, India.
• Awarded Merit Paper Award at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Business Analytics and Management Sciences and 57th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India held at IIT Bombay, India.
• Qualified GATE (MA) 2021.

Research & Publications

1. Kushwaha, K., Jana, R. K., & Dutta, P. (2025) “Multi-objective multi-item solid transportation problem using penalty-based NSGA-II: a case study on fertilizer transportation in India”, published in Sādhanā, 50(2), 67. (SCIE-Q2). DOI: 10.1007/s12046-025-02673-6
2. Kushwaha, K., & Jana, R. K. (2026) “Data-Driven Hybrid Neural Ensembles-Evolutionary Framework for Dynamic Multi-Objective Green Transportation Problem”, published in Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, 1-30. (ESCI-Q1). DOI: 10.1007/s41660-026-00719-8
3. Kushwaha, K., & Jana, R. K. “A Linear Prediction Based Evolutionary optimisation for Dynamic Multi-Objective Sustainable Crop Planning”, accepted in International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research. (Scopus-Q3). DOI: 10.1504/IJMOR.2026.10078717
4. Kushwaha, K., & Jana, R. K. “CMO-OOA: A New Constrained Multi-Objective Osprey Optimization Algorithm”, published in Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Trends in Business Analytics & Management Sciences (BAMS-ORSI 2024) held at IIT Bombay during December 12-14, 2024. (Conference Proceeding). DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-5429-410
5. Kushwaha, K., & Jana, R. K. “A Dynamic Green Supply Chain Model for Fertilizer Transportation Using Linear Prediction and Evolutionary Optimization”, accepted for publication in Digital Transformations in Supply Chains: How Data-Driven Insights and Analytics can Advance Sustainability, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, 2025. (Scopus-indexed Handbook)

Conferences and Seminars

• Paper Presentation in the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics and Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2026) organized by Cebu Institute of Technology University and Tokyo Metropolitan University, held during April 24-26, 2026 at Cebu City, Philippines.
• Paper Presentation in the International Conference on Applications of Operations Research in Finance, Defence, and Industry and 58th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, held during March 06-08, 2026 at Government Holkar Science College, Indore, India.
• Paper Presentation in the 5th IEOM India International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, organized by School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, held during November 06-08, 2025.
• Poster Presentation in the 13th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, organized by Department of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India, held during February 24-26, 2025.
• Paper Presentation in the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Business Analytics and Management Sciences and 57th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, held during December 12-14, 2024.
• Paper Presentation in the 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Applied Mathematics, organized by Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) BHU, Varanasi, India, held during July 03-05, 2024.
• Paper Presentation in the 89th Annual Conference of The Indian Mathematical Society, organized by Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India, held during December 22-25, 2023.
• Paper Presentation in the 4th Prof. P. C. Vaidya International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, organized by Department of Mathematics, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU), Surat, India, held during March 04-05, 2023.

Workshops and Trainings

• Completed Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Quantum Computing (QC 2026), organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (NIT), India, during June 22-26, 2026.
• Completed Summer School on Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning, organized by Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar, India, during June 16-20, 2025.
• Completed Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advancing Research Methodology through Scientific Tools and Artificial Intelligence, organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (NIT) Surat, India, during February 05-09, 2024.
• Completed International Workshop on Optimization Techniques in Industrial and Engineering Applications, organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Andhra Pradesh, India, during January 06-10, 2023.
• Completed virtual Self-paced Training Course on Optimization Onramp, organized by MathWorks Training Services.
• Completed Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Mathematical Tools and Techniques for Scientists & Engineers, organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (NIT) Surat, India, during December 06-10, 2021.
• Completed certified NPTEL Online Course on Essential Mathematics for Machine Learning, organized by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, from July 26 to October 24, 2021.
• Completed Four Weeks Online Training on Data Analytics, organized by Internshala, from June 15 to July 12, 2017.

Professional Services

• Reviewer: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature), 2026.
• Reviewer: Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), 2025.

Official Email Id
kanchan.kushwaha@nmims.edu