Bhaba Sarker

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Bhaba R. Sarker

Professor, Industrial Engineering
Elton G. Yates Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering

PhD, Texas A&M University (1989)
Professional Engineer (Louisiana)
IISE Fellow
Member of Decision Science Institute
Institute for Operations Research & Management Science (INFORMS)
Production& Operations Management Society (POMS)
Americal Society of Engineering Education.

Expertise

Supply chain management • lean production systems • manufacturing systems • renewable energy & sustainable technologies, transportation infrastructure optimization.

Biographical Sketch

Professor Bhaba Sarker is currently the Elton G. Yates Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering. Earlier he taught at many universities including the UT-Austin, Texas A&M University, Syracuse University, and was visiting faculty at Sun Yat-Sen University, Beihang University, Wuhan University of Science and Technology in addition to many other universities in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He is currently serving as the Associate Director of Trans-IPIC at LSU. He also worked with NASA (MSFC, KSC, JSC), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the World Bank, and the Energy Resource Center, Norman, OK.
Dr. Sarker performs research in production and manufacturing systems; he published extensively in many refereed journals and proceedings and presented technical papers in national and international conferences. His works have been well cited with a high h-index. He is selected as Fellows of South-Asia Institute Science & Technology (SAISE) and the Institute of Industrial Systems Engineers (IISE). 
Professor Sarker is on the Editorial Boards of many journals in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and a regular reviewer for more than 40 journals, National Science Foundation, and other federal and state funding agencies. He supervised many post-doctoral scholars and served on many MS thesis and PhD dissertation committees at LSU and overseas. Dr. Sarker’s teaching and research interests are in supply chain management, warehouse logistics & distribution, lean production informatics, sequencing & scheduling, quality control, reliability engineering, linear and nonlinear programming, and optimization applied to military logistics renewable energy, and precast concrete & transportation infrastructure. 
Dr. Sarker’s research is funded by the National Science Foundations (NSF), US Army Corps of Engineers, Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, USDOT, NASA, IBM, and other agencies. He is a member of ASEE, IIE, DSI, INFORMS, POMS, and New York Academy of Sciences. 

Key Publications

  • Hossain, M.S.J. and Sarker, B. R. (2021), “Inventory policy and magazine reloading schedule optimization for cutting tools in pipe manufacturing,” International Journal of Production Research, 60(16): pp. 5029-5050. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1948135
  • Biswas, P. and Sarker, B. R. (2021), “Optimal Control of a Multi-Supplier and Multi-Buyer Supply Chain System with JIT Delivery,” European J. Industrial Engineering, 15 (6): pp. 745-776.
  • Das Roy, M. and Sarker, B. R. (2021), “Optimizing a supply chain problem with nonlinear penalty cost for early and late delivery under generalized lead time distribution,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, 160 (2): Article #107536.DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107536.
  • Tusar, M.I.H, and Sarker, B. R. (2021), "Maintenance cost minimization models for offshore wind farms: A systematic and critical review," International Journal of Energy Research, 46(4): pp. 3739-3765. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.7425. 
  • Sarker, B. R., Wu, B. and Paudel, K. P. (2022), “Optimal Location for Renewable Gas Production and Distribution Facilities: Resource Planning and Management,” BioEnergy Research, 15: pp. 650-668. 
  • Taleizadeh, A. A., Zarei, H. R. and Sarker, B. R. (2022), “An Optimal ordering policy for a visitor-based purchasing system with stochastic delivery time and partial prepayment for profit maximization,” RAIRO-Operations Research, 56 (3): 1717-1735.
  • Hou, K-L, Srivastava, H. M., Lin, L-C, Sarker, B. R. and Lee, S-F (2022), “Optimal replenishment policy for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with stochastic demand under advance sales discount and available capacity" Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 45(17): pp. 10503-11980.
  • Abedsoltan, H. R., Taleizadeh, A. A., and Sarker, B. R. (2022), “Optimal production of remanufactured products with collaboration and co-branding of luxury brands,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, 172 (Part A#108533); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2022.108533.
  • Tusar, M.I.H. and Sarker, B. R. (2023), “Location and turbine parameter selection for offshore wind power maximization," Wind Engineering, 47(4): pp. 833-851. doi:10.1177/0309524X231165484
  • Tusar, MIH and Sarker, B.R. (2024), “Technician assignment in multi-shift maintenance schedules in an offshore wind farm,” Renewable Energy Focus, 51 (100616) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ref.2024.100616.

 

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