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Narayan Rangaraj

Professor

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
IIT Bombay

Office: Room 102, First Floor, IEOR Building
Tel: +91 22 2576 7882
Email: narayan.rangaraj[AT]iitb.ac.in

Twitter: @NarayanRangaraj

IIT Bombay students interested in project work, please look here for some possibilities and send me email if interested.I have been at IIT Bombay since 1990, with small breaks.  Most recently, during June-July 2022, I was Fraunhofer ITWM Fellow at the Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) at Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Academic Background

B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) - IIT Bombay (1986)
Ph.D. (Mathematical Sciences)  - Johns Hopkins University (1990)

Current Research InterestsTeaching
Railway and Metro Rail Operations ManagementJuly - November 2025
Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (including Pricing and Revenue Management)

IE 503 : Operations Analysis (slot 5)

I will be co-teaching this course with Guest Faculty Royston Fernandes

Applications to Health Care

IE 401 : Topics in Operations Research (slot 14)

Information about this course is here

Applications of O.R. in the aviation sectorThe course IE 401 is for B.Tech/B.S./DD students up to 4th year, and M.Sc. students
Applications in O.R. to Sports and other sectorsCourses taught earlier
Other links 
Contributions to BooksResource page for IEOR B.Tech students
Publications / Notes / Presentations / Case StudiesRandom material -->
M.Tech theses supervisedPointless geographical and other trivia
Ph.D. and M.S. (by research) studentsOptimisation and applications
Research presentationsMy real interest in trains !