Shib Sankar Sana is currently a principal at the Kishore Bharati Bhagini Nivedita College of the University of Calcutta. He served in the Department of Mathematics as an associate professor at Bhangar Mahavidyalaya from 2001 to 2018 and in the Department of Applied Mathematics as an associate lecturer at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, from 1999 to 2001.His main areas of research include the modelling of production planning and inventory control, biomathematics, and soft computing. He has published over 175 papers in journals including the Journal of Cleaner Production, the European Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Production Economics, Computers and Mathematics with Application, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Applied Mathematics and Computation, the Journal of Modelling in Management, the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, the International Journal of Systems Science, the Far East Journal of Applied Mathematics, Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, Advanced Modeling and Optimization, the Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, the Yugoslav Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Services Operations Management, the International Journal of Modeling, Identification and Control, the International Journal of Innovative Computing and Application, and the International Journal of Procurement Management, among others.