0000-0002-6606-3077 About
Sanjay Jain is an associate industry professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at the School of Business at the George Washington University (GW). At GW, he teaches graduate classes in the Master of Science in Project Management, MBA, and EMBA programs. He has also participated in delivering international executive programs in project management for GW. His research interests are in the development and application of decision science techniques to complex systems with current focus on sustainable supply chains and project management. He has received research grants from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (technical arm of U.S. Department of Commerce) continuously since 2002 that add up to nearly $1 million.
Professor Jain has been teaching at GW since Fall 2005. Earlier he was a research faculty member at Grado Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Virginia Tech for a few years. Before moving to academia, he accumulated over a dozen years of international R&D and consulting experience working at Accenture, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, and General Motors North American Operations Technical Center. He also served as the Vice President of Research for the International School of Project Management in New Delhi (www.ispm.in) for 2009-2013.
Dr. Jain has over 80 publications including papers in technical journals, technical reports, and and refereed conference proceedings. His recent work has been published in the European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, and International Journal of Production Economics. He has presented his work at premier conferences in their respective disciplines including the Project Management Institute’s Research Conference and the Winter Simulation Conference.
Dr. Jain served as an associate editor of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling for 2004-2014 and serves as a member of the editorial boards of International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. He also served as a co-editor of the Proceedings of 2010 Winter Simulation Conference and as the lead editor of the Proceedings of 2011 Winter Simulation Conference.
He received a bachelor’s of engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Roorkee, India, a post-graduate diploma from National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India, and a PhD in engineering science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
Employment
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George Washington University Associate Industry Professor2005 - Present
Education
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute PhD1984 - 1988
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Publications (17)
- Digital Twin–Enabled Machine Learning for Smart Manufacturing Save
- Manufacturing data analytics using a virtual factory representation Save
- A Classification Scheme for Smart Manufacturing Systems’ Performance Metrics Save
- Dispatching strategies for managing uncertainties in automated manufacturing systems Save
- A Hierarchical Approach for Evaluating Energy Trade-offs in Supply Chains Save
- A Parametric Emergency Response Project Management System Save
- Manufacturing Performance Measurement and Target Setting: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach Save
- Infrastructure for Model Based Production Scheduling Save
- Analytic Evaluation of the Expectation and Variance of Different Performance Measures of a Schedule on a Single Machine under Processing Time Variability Save
- Components for an Incident Management Simulation and Gaming Framework and Related Developments Save