About the Author

C. Raju is a full professor in the domain of quantitative methods and operations management at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India.

Prof. Raju steered the MBA programme under the executive education of IIMK to a global level. He served as dean-administration and development, dean of extension programmes, and dean-executive education at IIMK from 2017 to 2021. He played a key role as nodal professor, the Indian Institute of Management Amritsar from October 2017 to November 2019.

He received his bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in statistics from the University of Madras. He was a Council of Scientific & Industrial Research research fellow. His doctoral work revolves around acceptance sampling. He has several publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Prof. Raju's research interests include acceptance sampling, multivariate data analysis and PLS Regression.