Debankur Mukherjee is the Leo and Louise Benatar Early Career Professor and an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2019, he was a Prager Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. Debankur received his Ph.D. in Stochastic Operations Research from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research spans the area of applied probability, at the interface of stochastic processes and computer science, with applications to performance analysis, online algorithms, and machine learning. His primary focus is to develop a foundational understanding of the challenges that arise in large-scale systems, such as data centers and cloud networks. 

Debankur’s work has received several recognitions, including the Best Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS 2023, the Best Student Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS 2018, and was a finalist in the INFORMS JFIG paper competition in 2022. In 2025, he received the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award and serves as a cluster co-chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society. His research has been supported by the NSF, and he currently serves on the editorial boards of Stochastic Systems, Queueing Systems (QUESTA), and Stochastic Models.