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