1. Date of Joining-18.11.2010
2. Administrative Responsibilities
· Head of the Department
· DBT Star College Scheme Coordinator
· Sports Coordinator
3. Awards and Membership
· Best Paper Presentation award in 3rd International Conference on Reliability & Safety Engineering held at Udaipur during 17th -19th Dec 2007.
· Faculty Award for Registration, travel and accommodation support for attending International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2010) at Hyderabad during 19th -27thAugust 2010.
· Life Member of Indian Science Congress Association
· Life Member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society
· Life Member of Indian Mathematical Society
· Member Jharkhand Society of Mathematical Sciences
4. .Area of Specialization
· Optimization
5. Major Research Area
· Modelling and Optimization of Vehicle Routing Problem
6. Research Experience
· 16 years
7. Ph.D-2009,Ranchi University, Ranchi; Thesis Title – Modeling of the Real Time Vehicle Routing Problem using Variant of Ant Algorithm
8. Publications
· “Influence of Demographic Variables on Various Elements of Brand Loyalty with Special
· Reference to Packaged Drinking Water in Chennai City”. International Journal of Business and Management Invention .e-ISSN :2319-8028 p-ISSN: 2319-801X.Vol. 6, Issue 7, July 2017. Authors: M.R.Anuradha, M.R.Nagalakshmi, V.V.S.N.Pinakapani
· “Optimization of Customer Demand for Multi-Depot Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem using Stochastic Demand and Variant of Ant Algorithm ”.IOSR Journal of Mathematics (IOSR-JM) e-ISSN:2278-5728, p-ISSN: 2319-765X. Volume 13, Issue 2 Ver. III (Mar. -Apr. 2017), PP49-55 . Impact factor: 3.9. Authors: M.R.Nagalakshmi,M.Gangadharan
· Presented apaper titled, “Management of workforce for pickup and delivering goods to different customers by optimizing the travelling routes: with reference tocourier service.” in the National Seminar on current Trends, Innovations, Challenges & practices in HR conducted on 23rd Feb,2013 with ISBN No: 978-93-81430-92-7 by Margham Publications, Chennai-600 017 organized by the IQAC cell and the department of Humanities. Author: M.R.Nagalakshmi
· “Vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand (VRPSD): Optimization by neighbourhood search embedded adaptive antalgorithm (ns-AAA)” Int. J.Computer Aided Engineering and Technology Vol.1 No.3, 2009,pages 300-321.Inderscience Publishers U.K. ISSN: 1757-2657 E-ISSN: 1757-2665. Impact factor- 1.656. Authors: M.R.Nagalakshmi (PrincipalAuthor), Mukul Tripathi, Nagesh Shukla, M.K.Tiwari
· Presented a paper on“ Optimization of series-parallel system reliability: Adaptive memetic particle swarm optimization based approach” in 3rd International conference on Reliability & Safety Engineering held at Udiapur during 17-19thDecember 2007. Authors : Santosh kumar Mandal, Satish Kumar Tyagi, Mukul Tripathi, M.R.Nagalakshmi,M.K.Tiwari