Dr. Cherian Samuel

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email:
csamuel.mec@iitbhu.ac.in
Phone(s):
9415450447
Area of Interest:
Supply chain management, Production & Operations Management, System Dynamics

Dr. Cherian Samuel obtained his degree of Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Technology degree in Production Engineering both from Calicut University. He obtained his PhD degree from Industrial Engineering & Management department, IIT Kharagpur. He is currently working as Professor in the N. C. Jain School of Decision Sciences and Engineering and as a joint faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. He has publications to his credit in national and international journals. His areas of interest include Supply Chain Management, System Dynamics, Production and Operations Management etc.

  • National Conference and Workshop on Systems Thinking and System Dynamics, during Feb.29 to March 1, 2008, at Dept. Of Mechanical Engg., IT-BHU.
  • International Conference on Issues and challenges in Supply Chain Management, during March 28-30, 2008, at Dept. Of Mechanical Engg., IT-BHU (along with Dr. Ashutosh Sarkar)

  •  Invited Seminar talk on " Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety in Product development", Prof. V.N Achutha Naikan , Professor, Reliability Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, September 12, 2024

  • Workshop on Transforming Healthcare in Rural India: Assessing the Impact of Ayushman Bharat on Institutional Deliveries, Maternal Mortality, and Infant Mortality towards Achieving SDGs in UP-East Region, February 13, 2024, sponsored by ICSSR

  • Workshop on Net zero transition, N.C. Jain School of Decision Sciences and Engineering, January, 2026

  1. Mathematical & simulation modeling of issues in Supply chain management, sponsored by AICTE, grant: 10 lakhs, duration 2 years, completed as co-investigator.

  2. Design & Innovation Centre project as Principal Investigator on Development of cabinets using PCB’s under DIC-IIT (BHU), Fund sanctioned: Rs.0.425 lakhs, completed.

  3. Institute Research Project as Principal Investigator on Identification of Pollution levels on the streets of Varanasi to distinguish high pollution clusters and developing a traffic routing model for an environment optimized traffic flow strategy, Fund sanctioned: Rs.8,60,940/- completed.

  4. Short-term Empirical research project entitled “Transforming Healthcare in rural India: Assessing the impact of Ayushman Bharat on Institutional deliveries, maternal mortality, and Infant mortality towards achieving sustainable developmental goals in Uttar Pradesh- East Region, as project director, fund sanctioned. Rs.1048174/Top of Form

  5. Consultancy project on Design Engineering validation of PCM based thermal energy storage systems, Wafr Technologies, 12000 Canadian dollars, ongoing

Patent:

National patent filed on “System and method for controlling Robots in Stochastic Environments, In progress.

  • Supply chain Management

  • Total Quality Management

  • Industrial Management

  • Management Information Systems

  • Project Management

  • Production and Operations Analysis

  • Multi-Criteria Decision making

S.No

  Author/Co-authors 

Year of Publication

Title of Book(s)/ Book Chapters

Details of Publisher

 

1

C.Samuel & S.K.Sharma

2008

Proceedings of National conference on Systems thinking & System Dynamics

Mechanical Engg. Dept., IT-BHU, Varanasi

2

S.P.Sarmah, A.K.Agarwal A.Sarkar, C.Samuel

2008

Proceedings of International conference on Issues & challenges in Supply Chain Management (ICSCM)

Mechanical Engg. Dept., IT-BHU, Varanasi

3

A Jaiswal, C. Samuel

2022

A review on gscm and green manufacturing concepts in plastic industry

Elsevier

4

A.K. Yadav, B.S. Patel, C. Samuel

2022

A Society 5.0 Approach for Developing a Resilient Supply Chain

CRC Press

5

A Raj, C. Samuel

2023

Barriers to Healthcare Waste Management: A QFD Strategy

Springer Nature

6

B.B. Ahuja, S. Pratap, Lakshay, C Samuel

2025

Digital Manufacturing (under Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)

Springer

7

Prince K Tiwari, Cherian Samuel

2026

Decision Sciences for Quality and Productivity Improvement’ Volume in Springer Book Series on “Decision Sciences and Data Analytics for Operations and Business Excellence

Springer 

  • The Institution of Engineers: Life member (Fellow)

  •  The Society of Mechanical and Automotive Engineers: Life member

  •  Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society: Associate member

 

Name

Year of

Enrolment

Title of Thesis

1.

Atul Kumar

Tiwari

(Awarded)

 

2010

Modeling Flexibility in supply chains to counter uncertainties & disasters

2.

Bharat Patel

(Awarded)

2012

Studies on some aspects of Supply chain Agility

3.

AnandJaiswal

(Awarded)

2013

Analysis and Optimization of Vehicular Pollution: A case of Varanasi

 4.

Manish Kumar

(Awarded)

2013

Optimal Planning of Renewable Distributed Generation System

5.

Vinaytosh Mishra

(Awarded)

2014

Strategic Planning and Management for Diabetes Care

~ A Case of Varanasi City

 

   6.

Abhishek Kumar Singh

(Awarded)

2014

Evaluation of perceived values of customers and positioning strategy of apparel retailing: A case of Varanasi City 

7.

Ajeet Kumar Yadav

(Awarded)

2017

A Conceptual Framework for Building Resilience in Supply chain: A case of Indian Iron and Steel Manufacturing Sector

8

Abhishek Raj

(Awarded)

2017

 

Analysis of barriers to healthcare waste management: A case of an Indian City

9

Nistha Dubey

(Awarded, program 

Coordinator)

2018

Research Study on Food Banks in India: Barriers, Distribution Planning and Network Design

10

Gaurav Upadhyay

(Ongoing)

2021

Study on Net zero emission framework

11

Prince Kumar Tiwari

(Ongoing)

2023

Digital technologies for pharmaceutical supply chain management

12

Mansi Singh

(Ongoing)

2024

Healthcare supply chain waste management

13

Shantanu Sen

(Ongoing)

2025

Scheduling in healthcare

14

Abhinav Kumar

(Ongoing)

2025

Inventory management and scrap disposal

No

Name

Year

Title of Thesis

1

Vinay K. Tiwari

2005

Supplier evaluation using Analytical Hierarchy Process

2

Ananya Mishra

2005

System dynamics study of service supply chains Performance

3

Kumar Gaurav

2007

Performance Analysis of periodic review inventory control system

4

Kasiviswanadh

Gonapa

2008

Analyzing effect of Information enrichment on order & inventory variability of supply chain

5

N.V.Chalam

2009

An integrated approach for Supplier selection

6

Himanshu S

2010

Exploring VMI over traditional Supply chain

7

Pradeep K.M.

2010

Development of a Supply Chain simulation model of a third Party Logistics

8

Vineet

Mishra

2010

Measuring service quality in higher education at

BHU in Varanasi

9

Manoj Kr.

2011

A systematic approach for enhancing Supply Chain Performance

10

Satyavan Rai

2011

Cost saving using model driven DSS method in Supply Chain’s

11

Piyush Pandey

2012

Supplier selection using goal programming & fuzzy programming approaches

12

Ajay Ojha

2012

CTM as a tool of enhancing SC performance & SC

Flexibility

13

Arun Dixit

2012

Evaluating Effect of OQ & LT with impeded SQ on Supply Chain Flexibility and buyer’s behavior

14

Ramji

2013

Study of Seller-Buyer SC approach using Game

theory approach

15

Inderjeet Bhardwaj

2014

Analysis of Supply Chain Transportation Disruptions with Different Transportation Capacities

16

Mohd Arif

2014

System dynamics modeling and statistical screening of uncertain power projects

17

Jatin Sukhadiya

2014

Selection and evaluation of private technical institution: an integrated approach

 

18

Narayan Kumar

2015

Quantifying the bullwhip effect in a supply chain with non-stationary demand

19

Ajay Kumar

2015

Analysis of routing flexibility & performance measurement in Flexible manufacturing system

20

Ajeet Kumar 

Yadav

2016

Comparison of resilient performance of 2 cases of supply chains

21

Anil Kumar

2016

A modified DEA model for green supplier selection

22

Ankur Srivastava

2016

Optimizing turning parameters under multiple performance characteristics

23

Pallavi Singh

2017

Prediction of loan defaulter in an Indian public sector bank

24

Nenavath Narasimha Naik

2017

Improving economic scales of horticulture sector by introducing a new supply chain network

25

Himanshu K Singh

2018

2019

An integrated approach to facility relocation problem: A case study

26

Aryan Dilip Choudhary

2019

Realistic policy design in SD model: modal control theory and optimal control theory application

27

Wanjari Jayesh Gowardhan

2020

Resilient supply chain network design of Indian Public distribution system

28

Himanshu Chauhan

2021

A hybrid algorithm of firefly and ant colony system for solving vehicle routing problem

29

Shubham Kamboj

2021

Management of healthcare facilities with patient flow in hospitals during pandemic

30

Anushka Kushwaha

2020-2021

Bi-objective region constrained P-median facility location problem: generalized model and a case of locating ATM in Indian villages

31

Utkarsh Dwivedi

2022

Application of blockchain network in Govt procurement and Public distribution supply chain

32

Vaibhav Mehta

2022

Simulation-based assessment of public distribution system with consideration of resilience strategies

33

Sachin Agrawal

2022

A comparative study of machine learning with deep learning for credit card fraud detection

34

Alok Agarwal

2022

Analysis and prediction of employee attrition using machine learning

35

Saurab Toppo

2023

Perishable goods inventory management through reinforcement learning & reward shaping

36

Anmol Agrawal

2023

Optimization of delivery problem considering environmental impact using evolutionary algorithm

37

Mathuri Manideep

2023

Accessing the practicality of Neural networks for stock market movement predictions

38

Yash W Singh

2023

TB detection using X-ray images leveraging deep learning convolutional neural networks

39

Shorya Sharma

2023

Algorithm for joint embedding representation for multi-modal recommender systems

40

T Sai Yagnitha

2024

Predictive modeling of credit risk for national stock exchange’s SMEs using self-training & ensemble techniques

41

Rajesh Kumar

2024

Overcoming obstacles: A critical analysis of barriers to green Hydrogen adoption as fuel in India

42

 

Vanapalli Kavyasri

2024

Smart contracts for transactions in retail Industry

43

Atul Yadav

2024

ML for sustainable business: Predicting corporate scope 3 emission aiming towards net zero

44

Ashish Yadav

2024

Optimization of Mid-day meal delivery to government schools in Varanasi: A capacitated VRP with time window approach

45

Aarav Agnihotri

 

2025

Predictive Modeling for Demand Estimation and Late Delivery Mitigation in Multi-Regional E-Commerce Supply Chain

46

Alok Kumar Choudhary

2025

Blockchain use cases in supply chain management

 

47

 

Rishabh Pal

2025

Enhancing Perishable Crop Supply Chain Efficiency: A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Minimize Post-Harvest Losses and CO2 Emissions

48

Yajur Agarwal

 

2025

Blockchain-Enhanced Machine Learning for Supply Chain Network Analysis

49

Deeksha Jha

2026

AI-assisted validation of FMEA compliance in Semiconductor Supply Chains

50

Mohit Tubid

2026

Design and implementation of Algorithmic trading systems using Machine Learning

51

Abhishek Maddheshiya

2026

Development of an Optimization-based DSS for regulation-compliant Aircrew Scheduling

52

Raja Bhavesh

2026

MudraNet: A multi-stage Deep Learning framework for fake currency detection

53

Aryan Arya

2026

Honey Comb Cobots: Reinforcement Learning based Swarm Robotics