Puram Praveen is currently a Assistant Professor at IMT Hyderabad in the Operations Management area. He has completed his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (NIT), Nagpur, and followed it up by working as a Senior Engineer in Larsen and Toubro (L&T Construction) for three years. He has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis in the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, in which he worked on Sharing Economy in the food-sector using various qualitative and quantitative methods. His research interests span across mobile apps, sports, lean thinking, and the use of applied machine learning methods. His research has been published in ABDC and ABS listed journals such as IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Logistics Management, and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, among others. He has presented his work in International conferences such as INFORMS, POMS, and other National conferences.