Dr. Danish Nasir holds a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from AMU Aligarh, an Executive PGDM in General Management from IMI New Delhi, and a PhD in Operations Management from IIM Lucknow. Dr. Danish’s research focused on “Ergonomics in Warehouse Design and Operations”, and his research was published in Opsearch and Operational Research Journal.  He also presented papers at international conferences.

Dr. Danish has 18+ years of aircraft industry. He worked in various departments, including Shop Floor, Quality, Procurement, and the Aircraft Final Assembly Hangar. Additionally, he played a vital role in integrating and testing the Avionics systems of India’s first indigenous civil variant of the Dornier aircraft, currently operated by Alliance Air for regional mobility in the Northeast region under the UDAAN scheme of the Government of India. Furthermore, he served as a Production Manager for eight years, starting in 2006, where he was responsible for assembling and testing the Fuel management system of the Su-30MKI aircraft.

• PhD, IIM Lucknow, Ergonomics in Warehouse Design and Operations, 2024
• Executive PGDM, IMI New Delhi, 2015
• Tech, AMU Aligarh, 2005

• Operations Management
• Warehouse Layout Design
• Quality Management
• Lean and Six Sigma

• Certificate of Merit for securing distinction in Class X in all subjects.
• Stood second in B.Tech first year securing CGPA of 9.25 out of 10.
• Qualified GATE 2004 and 2005
• Certificate from GM HAL for designing and implementing test equipment for Fuel Metering gauge testing of SU-30 aircraft.
• Sponsored for Executive PGDM course from IMI New Delhi by HAL for excellent performance on Shop floor.
• Certified by IIPPM for Project Management.
• Certificate of appreciation from HAL CEO for participation and coordination in successfully organising DEFEXPO in Feb 2020 at Lucknow.
• Best track research paper award at PRISM3 conference held at BIMTECH Noida 17-19 Nov’23

1. Nasir, D., Venkitasubramony, R., & Jakhar, S. K. (2023). Energy-based storage assignment in a multi-aisle warehouse. OPSEARCH,60(4), 1951-1975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12597-023-00672-x (ABDC-C,Q2)
2. Nasir, D., Venkitasubramony, R. & Jakhar, S.K. Ergonomics in warehouse design and operations: a systematic literature review. Oper Res Int J 25, 10 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-024-00892-z (ABDC-C,Q2)

1. “Balancing Economic and Ergonomic Considerations through Heuristic Optimization in Warehouse Retrieval Processes” in Journal of the Operational Research Society (ABDC-A)
2. “Evaluating Quality Management in an Aircraft Manufacturing Company using MBNQA Framework: Identifying Areas for Improvement” in Quality Management Journal (ABDC-B)

1. Paper presented titled “Ergonomic Considerations in Warehouse Layout Design” at the GLOGIFT 18 conference organized by IIM Lucknow,18-20 Dec’18
2. Paper presented titled “Applications of Industry 4.0 in aircraft production and maintenance” at the PRISM2 conference’22 organized by IIM Nagpur, 17-19 Nov’22.
3. Area chair for the theme “Applications of Industry 4.0 in Aerospace manufacturing” at the PRISM2 organized by IIM Nagpur, 17-19 Nov’22
4. Paper presented titled “Heuristics-based Storage assignment in a multi-aisle multi-block warehouse with Ergonomic considerations” at the 25th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management organized by IIM Indore,16-18 Dec’22.
5. Paper presented titled “International sourcing considerations of leading Indian fashion brands” at the BIZAD 2023 – 9th International Conference on “Resilience Management, Sustainability & Radical Strategies” held in SRMIST Chennai,13-14 Sep’23
6. Paper presented titled “Multi-objective Optimization for Storage assignment in a multi-block multi-aisle warehouse with Ergonomic considerations” at PRISM3 conference organized by BIMTECH Noida, 17-19 Nov’23.