scientific and industrial research fellowship and worked in intersection operations research and decision theory in 2017 he landed his current job in singapore and never thought twice in accepting the offer from national university of singapore ranked 11 in qs global ranking the nature of the job challenge learning from pioneers and geographical proximity made me excited about the position dutta says rising relevance of operations researchsingapores multicultural society and his friends in the country made it easier for him to adjust to life both within and outside the campus dutta now plans to have a rd position in the future that engages in solving some of the pivotal problems in society he feels that career prospects in his field look promising and more so in a postpandemic world the business environment is getting increasingly complex calling for more informed and effective decisions based on data that is where operations research and analytics as well as the related fields of management science data science computer science and decision science will be widelysoughtafter the prospects in my area of research will get even better with time he adds