• Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs, Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Amarnath Banerjee

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Illinois at Chicago – 1999

Research Interests

    • Modeling, simulation and visualization in health care systems, information systems, manufacturing systems and Industry 4.0

Certifications & Memberships

  • Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers – 2022

Awards & Honors

  • Corrie and Jim Furber '64 Faculty Fellow – 2016-2017
  • Charles W. Crawford Service Award – 2012-2013
  • William O. and Montine P. Head Faculty Fellow – 2011-2012
  • Best Paper Award - Healthcare Systems, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference – 2012
  • Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering – 2011-2012
  • NASA Tech Brief award for the Virtual Video for Remote Cockpit Design project – 2009
  • William O. and Montine P. Head Faculty Fellow – 2008-2009
  • Tenneco Award for Meritorious Teaching of Engineering – 2006

Selected Publications

  • Choi, S. and Banerjee, A., “Comparison of a branch-and-bound heuristic, a newsvendor-based heuristic and periodic Bailey rules for outpatients appointment scheduling systems,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, V67, N4, pp. 576-592, April 2016.
  • Curry, G. L. and Banerjee, A., “A Discrete Event Simulation Language in MATLAB,” Proceedings of 2016 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Anaheim, CA, May 21 – 24, 2016.
  • Lee, H. and Banerjee, A., “Design, Simulation and Dynamic Control of Large Scale Manufacturing Process with Different Forms of Uncertainties,” Contemporary Issues in System Science and Engineering, M-C. Zhou, H-X. Li, and M. Weijnen (Eds.), pp. 317-342, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-1182-7186-5.
  • Na, H. and Banerjee, A., “A disaster evacuation network model for transporting multiple priority evacuees,” IIE Transactions, V47, N11, pp. 1287-1299, 2015.
  • Lee, H. and Banerjee, A., “Intelligent Scheduling and Motion Control for Household Vacuum Cleaning Robot System Using Simulation Based Optimization,” Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 1163-1171, Huntington Beach, CA, December 6 – 9, 2015.
  • Cerekci, A. and Banerjee, A., “Effect of upstream re-sequencing in controlling cycle time performance of batch processors,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, V88, pp. 206-216, October 2015.
  • Fu, Y. and Banerjee, A., “An Entropy-based Approach to Improve Clinic Performance and Patient Satisfaction,” Proceedings of 2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), Montreal, Canada, May 31 – June 3, 2014.
  • Sharda, B. and Banerjee, A., “Robust manufacturing system design using Multi objective Genetic Algorithms, Petri nets and Bayesian uncertainty representation,” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, V32, pp. 315-324, 2013.
  • Banerjee, A. and Johnson, A., Mekaroonreung, M. and Pope, B., “Healthcare Systems,” The Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Second Edition, A. B. Badiru (Ed.), pp. 259-275, CRC Press, 2013, ISBN: 978-1466515048.