Dr Sanjoy Paul is an Associate Professor at the UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, who works on supply chain risk and resilience, and in particular, on recovery modelling using mathematical models and optimisation. 

Sanjoy’s research interests also include sustainable supply chain management, supply chain resilience, applied operations research, modelling and simulation, and intelligent decision-making. His work has particular application to global supply chain interruptions, for example, those experienced during pandemics, and he has published several supply chain recovery models that businesses could use during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Sanjoy has published in top-tier journals and conferences, including the European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and the International Journal of Production Economics, among many others. Sanjoy has been successful in securing external grants from the Department of Defence, Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australasian Supply Chain Institute, and Meat and Livestock Australia Limited.

Sanjoy frequently contributes to television, radio, and news media through his expert opinions, commentaries, and analyses on supermarket pricing, supply chain disruptions, and other business issues. His commentaries and analyses have been published in leading news, radio and television media outlets, including The Conversation, ABC Television, ABC News, The Guardian, Nine TV News, SBS News, The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, news.com.au, Herald Sun, The New Daily and The Daily Cargo News.

Sanjoy has received several awards in his career, including Editorial Contribution Award from Springer Nature, Research with Relevance Award from UTS Business School, Global Sustainable Supply Chain Management Award from IEOM Society, ASOR Rising Star Award, Excellence in Early Career Research Award from UTS Business School, the Stephen Fester Prize for most outstanding thesis from UNSW, high impact publications awards for publishing articles in top-tier journals, and several university scholarships for outstanding results at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Since 2021, he has been included in the top 2% of scientists in author databases of standardised citation indicators. ScholarGPS (2025) has also recognised him as a Highly Ranked Scholar in Supply Chain (top 0.05%).

Sanjoy is an Associate Editor of two ABDC A-ranked journals, Business Strategy and the Environment and Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. He is also an editorial board member and guest editor for several other top journals. 

Before joining UTS as a lecturer, Sanjoy served on the academic staff at RMIT University in Melbourne and, before that, at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.