Dr. S. G. Deshmukh is currently, a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Delhi. He earned his B Tech, M Tech, and Ph D degree from IIT Bombay. Since 1990, he has been with IIT Delhi. His areas of interests include Supply chain management, quality, manufacturing competitiveness, modelling, and simulation. He has more than 32 years of teaching, research, and consulting experience. He is a member of ISME, IIIE, ASI, and QCFI (Quality Circle Forum of India). He was associated with European-India initiative on Total Quality Management. He has conducted several MDPs and FDPs.

He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) and a Fellow of International Engineering & Technology Institute (IETI). He has also earned Certificate of Appreciation from American Society for Quality (ASQ).

He has been involved with NPTEL in producing pedagogy for operations management.