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Northern Illinois University

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Faculty & Staff Directory

Omar Ghrayeb

Associate Dean, Outreach and Undergraduate Programs
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2000
Facilities planning, production planning and control, manufacturing systems, supply chain, soft computing technology
Tel: 815-753-1442
E-mail: oghrayeb@niu.edu

Ehsan Asoudegi

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1987
Director of Ergonomics & Measurement and Control Laboratories Human Factors & Industrial ergonomics, Work Measurement & Time Study, Design of Experiment, Quality Control
Tel: 815-753-9973
E-mail: easoudegi@niu.edu

Shi-Jie (Gary) Chen

Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999
Healthcare Systems Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Concurrent Engineering & Management, Project Team Management, Production Systems.
Tel: 815-753-1221
E-mail: garychen@niu.edu

Purushothaman Damodaran

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2002
Large-scale optimization (deteministic and stochastic mixed-integer linear programming, network flow optimization, meta-heuristics), Scheduling, Simulation (discrete-even and continuous), Logistics, electronics manufacturing (lead-free assembly, lean manufacturing, six sigma).
Tel: 815-753-6748
E-mail: pdamodaran@niu.edu
Web site: http://www.niu.edu/~pdamodaran

Sukgon Kim

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2007
Supply Chain Management, Capacity Planning, Production planning and scheduling, Semiconductor manufacturing systems, Combinatorial and Heuristic optimization, Healthcare Systems
Tel: 815-753-8890
E-mail: skim11@niu.edu

Murali Krishnamurthi

Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1988
Director of Faculty Development & Instructional Design Center
Manufacturing Systems, System Simulation, Information System
Tel: 815-753-8571 and 815-753-6502
E-mail: mkrishna@niu.edu

Web site: http://www.niu.edu/~mkrishna/

Richard L. Marcellus

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983
Operations Research, Performance Analysis of Quality Control System, Design in Engineering Education
Tel: 815-753-9971
E-mail: rmarcell@niu.edu

Reinaldo J. Moraga

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Central FL, 2002
Meta-heuristics, Optimization and Simulation, Supply Chain Management and Operations Management
Tel: 815-753-8048
E-mail: rmoraga@niu.edu

Joseph Bittorf

Adjunct Instructor
M.S., Northern Illinois University, 2005
Operations Engineering, Plant Management, Strategic Planning, Lean Manufacturing, Product Development, Foreign Sourcing Economics, Organization and Development
Tel: 815-753-9972
E-mail: jbittorf@niu.edu