Avijit Banerjee

Avijit Banerjee is a Professor at Drexel University’s Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. His research spans supply chain coordination, inventory optimization, production planning, and pricing strategies, with applications in electronics, defense, and medical industries. He holds expertise in integrating logistics with production scheduling and managing perishable inventories under uncertainty.

His work advances supply chain resilience through innovative contracting mechanisms and risk mitigation strategies for global operations. Research themes include:

• Coordination models for failure-prone supply chains
• Integrated production-distribution systems for deteriorating items
• Multiproduct batch scheduling with transportation constraints
• Stochastic inventory modeling with time-sensitive backorder costs

Award highlights:

• 2019 Best Doctoral Student Paper (Northeast DSI)
• 2018 Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award (NEDSI)
• 1987 S. T. Hardy Award for seminal operations management research

His publications demonstrate consistent contributions to operations theory through mathematical modeling and empirical validations in high-impact journals.