Education

     Bachelor of technology (B.Tech) in Manufacturing Engineering from National Institute of Foundry and Forge technology, Ranchi, India (2003-07)
     Currently pursuing my MS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas at San Antonio (2007-09)
     Working as a Graduate Research Assistant in Flexible Manufacturing & Lean Systems (FMLS) Laboratory under Prof. F F Chen (Interim Department Head of Mechanical Engineering, UTSA).

Projects:

     One Month long project at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, under the guidance of Prof. Ravi Shankar.  The project was concerned with the Optimization of system reliability using Hierarchical Particle Swarm Algorithm. (June-July, 2005)
      One month long industrial training in Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), Ranchi. (June-July, 2006)

  Fields of Interest: 

     Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling in manufacturing industries.
     Integrating Production Planning and Tool Planning Problems of FMS.
     Decision making problems in Supply chain management.
     Industrial application of Artificial Intelligence and Optimization Techniques.
     Developing Bio-inspired Evolutionary Algorithms to solve Combinatorial Optimization Problems.
     Web based manufacturing systems using Multi-agent paradigm.
     Designing Holonic Manufacturing Systems for STEP-compliant manufacturing.
     Designing Recurrent Fuzzy systems and Interoperable manufacturing systems. 

Academic Achievements:

     Topper of the class in the school education right from 6th to 12th standard.
     Received Certificate of Merit for Excellent Performance in Big Babool Quiz contest conducted by Barry O Brien.
     Receiving a scholarship from Bansilal Sanghavi Prakashak Trust for being the topper of my batch in 10th standard (2000). 
     Acted as Class Captain for six consecutive years i.e. from 6th to 12th standard.

Exposure to computers:

     Programming Languages Known: C, C++, Java, FORTRAN 77 and HTML.

     Coded following algorithms in C++ for my research and project related works.

a) Genetic Algorithm (GA)
b) Simulated Annealing (SA)
c) Chaos Embedded Simulated Annealing (CESA)
d) Hierarchical DNA Based Computing (HDBC)
e) Artificial Immune System (AIS)
f) Tabu Search (TS)
g) Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization (HPSO)

     Operating Systems: Windows XP, 2000, 98.

     Modeling Tools: IDEF0, IDEF1, RRFlow

     Packages: Latex 2e, MS-Office, MATLAB 6.1, LINDO, AutoCAD 2000i, Pro-E, Adobe 6.0 and Macromedia Flash 5.0.

Subjects of Interest (In Bachelors Programme):

     Industrial Engineering and MRP
     Quantitative methods and OR.
     Engineering Mathematics II
     CAD/CAM
     Metal Cutting and Machine Tools
     Microprocessor
     Fluid Mechanics

Research Contributions:

1. "Designing an integrated multi-echelon agile supply chain network: A Hybrid Taguchi-Particle swarm optimization approach"
   Manish Bachlaus, M K Pandey, M. K. Tiwari and Ravi Shankar
   (Accepted for Publication in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIM)
3. "Sequencing of Parts on Single Stage Multifunctional machining Systems using Chaos Embedded Simulated Annealing algorithm"
   Manish Bachlaus, M. K. Tiwari, Ravi Shankar
   (Accepted for Publication in International Journal of Production Research (IJPR))
    
4. "Optimization of System Reliability using Chaos Embedded Self Organizing Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization"
   Manish Bachlaus, Nagesh Shukla, M. K. Tiwari, Ravi Shankar
   (Published in Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O – Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2006, Volume No. 220, Issue 2, pp.  77-91)
    
5. "An Integrated Tool Planning and Production Planning Problem for Flexible Manufacturing Systems using Genetic Algorithm"
   Zubair M. Mohamed, Manish Bachlaus
   (Accepted for Publication in International Journal of Intelligent systems Technologies and application (IJISTA))
    
6. "A multi-objective resource assignment problem in a product driven supply chain using Taguchi Based DNA algorithm"
   Manish Bachlaus, M. K. Tiwari, and F T S Chan
   (Accepted for publication from International Journal of Production Research (IJPR))
    
7. "Web based Multi Agent Platform for Collaborative Manufacturing"
   Manish Bachlaus, M K Tiwari, S Kumar, A Nassehi, S T Newman
   (Published in 3^rd International CIRP Sponsored Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, Portugal 2006)