Sai Jishna Pulluru

• Advising the CEO and COO on all issues related to quantitative optimization, analytics and data science across the value chain. • Developing digital, customer-centric and data-driven operating models to support Zooplus businesses. • Prototyping and steering the development of IT products for improved operational efficiency. • Technical & commercial due-diligence of startups and running pilot projects for potential integration within the value chain.

•Developed resource-efficient scheduling methods using linear programming, combinatorial optimization and graph theory. •Applied solution procedures such as solution space reduction, decomposition to solve large problems in food supply chains. •Devised novel methods to describe system behavior & predict fluctuations from real-time data & prescribe operational recourse. •Deployed computational protocols both locally and on remote server architectures using Python, Gurobi, ILOG, Powershell, CMD, etc.

•Advised two Arla production plants on optimizing their production, resource flows and product quality. •Worked with large SAP, SQL, and ECOLAB databases containing production data and successfully extracted relevant data using Python & VBA scripting. •Developed novel data analytics and visualization solutions to manage production and resource flows resulting in 60% reduction in investment costs and € 0.5 million savings in annual operational expenses.

• Successfully completed three research projects on polymer membrane development for application in bioethanol purification, nanofiltration and membrane bioreactors. • Designed and built a novel apparatus for coating of membranes with polyelectrolytes at varied temperature. • Collaborated with other researchers to co-author two scientific publications.

• Designed experiments and standard protocols to study behavior of nanoparticles & thin polymeric films at solid-liquid interfaces. • Statistically analyzed and processed the optical signals obtained from scattering of surface plasmon radiation by nanoparticles diffusing near gold interfaces. • Mathematically modeled the effect of electrodynamic forces on interfacial diffusion of nanoparticles.

• Designed experiments and standard protocols to study behavior of nanoparticles & thin polymeric films at solid-liquid interfaces. • Statistically analyzed and processed the optical signals obtained from scattering of surface plasmon radiation by nanoparticles diffusing near gold interfaces. • Mathematically modeled the effect of electrodynamic forces on interfacial diffusion of nanoparticles.

Operations and Supply Chain Management