Dr. C. Ganeshkumar is an Assistant Professor in IIPMB. He has received his Ph.D. and MBA from Pondicherry Central University, Cleared UGC-NET in Management during 2010, He has 2 years of post-doctoral research experience in Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Served as faculty at VIT University, Vellore. He has published 30 articles in National and International Journals, presented 15 research papers in various conference and organized various data analytics workshops. He has also acted as resources in various hands-on business analytics workshops using tableau, R, Python, SQL and Excel Solver software. His areas of research include Agri-food value chain, artificial intelligence and socially responsible supply chain. funded projects from Tea Board, MCA, ICSSR, UNDP, IFPRI-USA and ADB. Apart from teaching and research, He has taken administrative roles like hostel warden, FWC Coordinator, NBA Coordinator and Industrial visit coordinator.
Professor C.Ganeshkumar’s research interests focus on the following areas: [1] How to improve the India Agri-Food Supply Chain Performance [2] How to apply big data analytics to the food and agribusiness sectoral issues. [3] Sustainable/Socially responsible Operations Management of Manufacturing Industries/Informal Sector [4] What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence in Food and Agriculture Sector? [5] How block chain technology impacting food and agriculture industries? [6] How the precision farming and IT technology intervene the farms productivity? [7] How to adopt Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Technologies in FPOs and MSME in Emerging Economy?
Significant Publications:
- Ganeshkumar, C., David, A. and Jebasingh, D.R. (2022), “Digital Transformation: Artificial Intelligence Based Product Benefits and Problems of Agritech Industry”, Mor, R.S., Kumar, D. and Singh, A. (Ed.) Agri-Food 4.0 (Advanced Series in Management, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 141-163. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-636120220000027010, ISBN: 978-1-80117-499-2, eISBN: 978-1-80117-498-5 ISSN: 1877-6361, WoS & Scopus Indexed Series.
- Ahmed, Irfan; Mehta, Sanjay; C, Ganeshkumar; Natarajan, V, “Learning from Failure to Enhance Performance: A Systematic Literature Review of Retail Failure, Benchmarking: an International Journal, Listed in ABDC Category B and Indexed in Scopus/WoS, Vol.ahead-of-print No.ahead-of-print.
- Ganeshkumar, C and Abrar Khan., “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Agriculture Value Chain: A Systematic Literature Review” Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Listed in ABDC Category C and Indexed in Scopus/WoS, Vol.ahead-of-print No.ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JADEE-07-2020-0140
- Arokiaraj, D, Ganeshkumar, C., and VicterPaul, P, Blockchain Technology in Food Supply Chain: Empirical Analysis, International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM), Listed in ABDC Category C and Indexed in Scopus and ESCI-WoS,
- Siddhartha, T, Nambirajan, T and Ganeshkumar, C., “Self Help Group (SHG) Production Methods and Preferences” Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Listed in ABDC Category C and Indexed in Scopus and ESCI-WoS, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 665-685.
- Ganeshkumar, C and Abrar Khan., “Mapping of Agritech Companies in Indian” Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Management and Machine Intelligence, indexed in Scopus with H-Index: 8, Scopus Cite Score: 0.4 and Springer Nature Publisher Book Series, Vol: 166, Jan 2021, ISBN: 978-981-15-9688-9.
- VicterPaul, P, and Ganeshkumar, C., Dhavachelvan, P and R. Baskaran. “A Novel ODV Crossover Operator based Genetic Algorithms for Traveling Salesman Problem”, Soft Computing, Springer (UGC Listed Journal No. 22324), ISSN: 1432-7643, Indexed in Scopus and WoS-SCI with Impact Factor: 2.78, Scopus CiteScore:4.7, Vol: 24, Issue: 14, 2020,
- Ganeshkumar, C., Sugundan.NandPachayappan, M. “Technological Implication and Its Impact in Agricultural Sector: An IoT Based Collaboration Framework” Procedia Computer Science-Elsevier (H-Index: 47) (ISSN: 1877-0509), Indexed in Scopus and Scopus CiteScore: 2.5; Vol: 171, June 2020, pp. 1166-1173.
- Ganeshkumar, C., Prabhu, M and Nabaz Nawzad Abdullah., “Business Analytics and Supply Chain Performance: Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) Approach” International Journal of Management and Business Research (IJMBR), Volume, 9(1), March: 2019, Pp:91-96, ISSN: 2228-7027, Listed in Scopus, Scopus CiteScore: 0.3, Q4, H Index-2 with SJR-Scimago Journal & Country Rank: 0.11, (UGC Listed Journal No. 23063).
- Siddhartha, T, Nambirajan, T and Ganeshkumar, C., “Production and Retailing of Self-Help Group Products”, Global Business and Economics Review, Volume: 21(6), 2019, pp: 168-182, Print ISSN: 1097-4954 Online ISSN: 1745-1329, Indexed in ABDC in C Category and Scopus-Q4, SJR-Scimago: 10 H Index and Scopus CiteScore: 0.7. (UGC Listed Journal No. 27949)
Prof. C.Ganeshkumar teaches the core courses of statistics for management, perspective analytics and business analytics
Current Position
Serving as Assistant Professor in Indian Institute of Plantation Management Bangalore (IIPMB) from 21st September 2016 to Till Date
Academic Experience
Served as Assistant Professor: Grade I: VIT Business School, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, from 30th April 2015 to 20th September 2016
Research Experience:
Served as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), from 29h April 2013 to 29thApril 2015
