Archis is a Professor and Department Head of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis. Before joining Minnesota, he was a Professor and held the Fluor Endowed Chair in Industrial Engineering at Clemson University. Prior to joining Clemson, he was a Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. There he served as the Associate Chair for six years and held a College of Engineering Endowed Professorship in Healthcare Operations Research for five years. He joined the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 2006 after receiving a PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford in 2003. He completed his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 2001. Archis is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award; and the award for excellence in teaching Operations Research as well as a best paper award from IISE. He also received multiple teaching accolades from the University of Washington. His students have won the Dantzig dissertation award and the Bonder scholarship in healthcare operations research, both from INFORMS. Archis has served on the editorial boards of several journals, and was the General Chair of the INFORMS 2019 Annual Meeting and a Program Co-Chair of the 2021 IISE Annual Conference.
Education
PhD, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
MS, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
BTech and MTech, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
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