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Rakesh Nagi
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Biography

Research

Information Fusion

Congestion in Facilities Location and Layout

Facility Layout (Re)Design

Agile Manufacturing

Real-Time Visualization

Sensor Networks

Facilities Design and Cellular Manufacturing

Operations of Production Systems

Variant Design

Teaching

IE 684: Networks, Routing, and Logistics

IE 661: Scheduling Theory

IE 620: Agile Manufacturing

IE 505: Production Planning and Control

IE 504: Facilities Design

IE 500: Special Topics: Logistics and Supply-Chain Management

IE 327: Facilities Design

IE 320: Engineering Economy

Professional Activities

Biographical Sketch

Rakesh Nagi is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He received his Ph.D. (1991) and M.S. (1989) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, while he worked at the Institute for Systems Research and INRIA, France, and B.E. (1987) degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Roorkee (now IIT-R), Roorkee, India. He is a recipient of IIE Fellow Award (2010), UB's "Sustained Achievement Award" in recognition of outstanding achievements in scholarly activity (2009), He is a recipient of Buffalo First's 40 under 40 Award (2004), SUNY Research Foundation's Promising Inventor Award (2004), SME's Milton C. Shaw Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (1999), IIE's Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award in Academia (1999), and National Science Foundation's CAREER Award (1996). His papers have been published in journals including IIE/ASME Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Computers in Industry, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, The Engineering Economist, Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, and Computers and Industrial Engineering. Dr. Nagi's major research thrust is in the area of production systems and applied/military operations research. His research interests are in Location theoretic approaches to Facilities Design, Agile Enterprises and Information-Based Manufacturing, and Just-In-Time production of assemblies. His recent interest include Sensor Networks and Level2/Level3 Data Fusion using Graph Theoretic models.

Curriculum Vitae (Long for Academia) PDF version

Functional Resume (Short for Industry) PDF version

Contact information: Phone: (716) 645-2427 • Fax: (716) 645-3302 • E-mail: nagi@buffalo.edu

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