Jahar Saha
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Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D.)
Ahmedabad
Jahar Saha | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Education | Indian Statistical Institute (B.Stat.), (M.Stat.), (PGD in SQC&OR) Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Operations Research, Statistics |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
Jahar Saha is a professor and former director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, a position he held from 1998 to 2002.
Jahar Saha was born on 14 December 1943 at Kaladi in Matlab (now in Bangladesh). While his grandparents were in business, his father was a lawyer who later became a school teacher. His elder brother was a senior government official and his younger sister is a professor in a medical college at Kolkata.[1]
Education
Saha did a four-year professional degree in Statistics (B.Stat.), Masters in Statistics (M.stat), and a one-year Post-Graduate Diploma in Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Jahar Saha obtained his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. His Ph.D. thesis was titled "Some Problems in Railway Networks" which focused on two kinds of problems in railway networks: (i) scheduling trains, (ii) selecting an optimal configuration for railway networks. Many of the problems were structured mathematical programming problems and Saha made attempts to develop efficient algorithms to the problems.[2]
