Dr. Nomesh Bolia is a professor at IIT Delhi and the founding & current Director of its Public Systems Lab. His research and innovation interests are in Operations Research and its applications to Public Systems, Public Policy and Governance. Prof. Bolia is the recipient of several national-international awards and grants such as the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum’s Public Health Fellowship and DAAD (German) Research stays. He has published several papers in international journals of repute, consulted many companies in the public/private sector in India and mentored start-ups in the broad domain of Operations Research. He is also the founding coordinator of the DAKSH Centre of Excellence for Law & Technology. His vision and commitment to the area of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research were recognised by the Government of India nominated him as a member of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, India’s premier institute in this area and other responsibilities such as member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India and on several other committees. He also led the Doctoral fellowship for the ASEAN in India programme of the Government of India since its launch. The programme aims to harness the potential of India-ASEAN cooperation through education and research.

He is the Principal Investigator of the IKS Programme Project at IIT Delhi, the first large-scale (multi-crore) privately funded IKS project grant in the country. He has also been invited by the IKS Division of the MoE as a panellist, jury member, event guest/chair and more in recognition of his association with this extremely important area of research, education and impact.