Raj Desai is a master’s student in Industrial Engineering program at H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from India and has work experience in the maintenance management profile of oil and gas field. He is interested in supply chain optimization problems involving demand-supply planning and multi-echelon inventory optimization. He is currently involved in hyperconnected demand-supply alignment project based on multi-agent optimization and working on the experimentation through simulation with the agent-based decision algorithms.