Dr. Madhukar Dayal has served as a Gazetted officer in the IRSME (Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineers) service of Indian Railways for over twenty years. His wide experience spans Railway operations, information technology projects, R&D, as well as, teaching. He has travelled widely across the country conducting seminars, delivering speeches, advising IR in IT projects, documenting information system requirements and preparing specifications. He has also been editor of IRIMEE, Jamalpurs newsletter and conference proceedings.
He earned his Fellow (Computers & Information Systems) degree from IIM Ahmedabad. At the graduate level, he has taught courses, such as, C and C++ (OOP) and Industrial Management. He has also taught computer hardware, software, networking and application courses in Management Development Programmes.
His current teaching interests include Managerial Computing, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, DBMS & OLTP, Networking, and Modern Computing Applications for Businesses. His research interests include scheduling, combinatorial optimization, exact solution tree search algorithms, multi objective solution algorithms, and compute cluster (multi processor) algorithms for NP-hard problems.
PUBLICATIONS
Das, Saini & Madhukar Dayal. (2016). Exploring determinants of cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) selection and adoption: A qualitative study in the Indian education sector. Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 18(1), 11-36.
Dayal, Madhukar & Swapnil Garg. (2015). Sub-Climates in a Large organization: The Case of Indian Railways. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association 2015, St.Petersburg, Florida, USA, in peer reviewed “Act on your Research” Track (Video presentation at URL: http://www.southernmanagement.org/page/actonyr Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZfvXQ0HUw&feature=youtu.be )
Dayal, Madhukar, Garg, Sachin, & Rubaina Srivastava. (2014). Big Data: Road ahead for India. Indore Management Journal, Vol. 6(2), pp 1-14.
Dayal, Madhukar & Rajesh Sharma. (2014). A field study report on WiFi network alternatives for IIM Indore campus (July 2014), Indian Institute of Management Indore: An IT Department Technical Report (Madhya Pradesh, India).
PUBLICATIONS / CASES UNDER REVIEW
Dayal, Madhukar & Saini Das. Organising WEPME 2014: Interactive Event Budgeting. Case with teaching note and spreadsheet supplement under registration at IIM Indore.
Dayal, Madhukar & Saini Das. Book Recommender System: An Interactive Spreadsheet Decision Support Model for IIM Indore Library. Case with teaching note and spreadsheet supplement under registration at IIM Indore.
WORKING PAPERS
Das, Saini & Madhukar Dayal. (2016). A Spreadsheet based Recommender System for a Digital Library, IIM Indore WP No WP/02/016/IS.
Dayal, Madhukar & Sanjay Verma. (2015). Multi-processor exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP, IIM Ahmedabad WP No 2015-03-25.
Das, Saini & Madhukar Dayal. (2015). The Transportation Problem: A Spreadsheet based Decision Support Model, IIM Indore working paper WP/02/015/IS.
Das, Saini & Madhukar Dayal. (2015). A Novel Approach to Conference Budgeting: A Spreadsheet based Interactive Decision Support Model, IIM Indore working paper WP/01/015/IS.
Dayal, Madhukar & Sanjay Verma. (2015). Exact Procedures For Non-Regular Measures of the Multi-Mode RCPSP, IIM Ahmedabad WP No 2015-03-06.
Dayal, Madhukar & Sanjay Verma. (2014). Breadth-first and Best-first Exact Procedures for Regular Measures of the Multi-mode RCPSP, IIM Ahmedabad WP No 2014-10-04.
Das, Saini & Madhukar Dayal. (2014). Realising the business value of CLERP systems in a higher educational institution: Challenges and opportunities, IIM Indore working paper WP/01/014/IS.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Dayal, Madhukar (2009). Exact Algorithms for Multi-Mode Multiple Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (MRCPSP) and Multiple Machine Scheduling Problem (MMSP) using Breadth-First and Best-first Approaches in Doctoral Colloquium Jan 2009, IIM Ahmedabad.
CASE COMMENTARY
Dayal, Madhukar. (2012). Case commentary on Madras Management Association: Managing Diversity, Growth and Excellence. Indore Management Journal, 4(3), pp 58-60.
BOOK REVIEWS
Dayal, Madhukar. (2013). Book Review , Indore Management Journal, 4(4), pp 70-72.
TALKS / SPEECHES
Invited speaker, Data and Information Management for Registrars(General) at National Judicial Academy, Bhopal (Mar 2016).
Key-note speaker, Enabling the Intelligent Infrastructure, organised by M/s Cisco at Bhopal, India (May 2015).
Invited panel member, Secure and Manage Information in a Connected World, organised by M/s Symantec & M/s CyberMedia (publishers of several periodicals, such as, DataQuest, PCQuest etc) at Indore, India (Dec 2013).
Panel speaker at National Conference of Computer Society of India (CSI), Delhi Chapter on Y2K risk mitigation (1999).
Technical paper presentation on “Use of centrifugal oil treatment plants for salvaging lubricating oils in Diesel locomotives” at IR’s Mechanical Engineering Conference (1995).
BLOG POSTS (Significant only)
Dayal, Madhukar. (2015, December 7). Cheers, Rajan! Now for the tight rope walk! . Available online at WordPress: https://madhukardayal.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/cheers-rajan-now-for-a-tighter-rope-walk/