Core Faculty

Deterministic and Stochastic control, Game Theory, Viscosity Solutions, MDPs, Math Finance

Machine Learning, Data mining, Optimization for data science, Longitudinal Data Analysis.

Linear and Non Linear mixed integer Optimization, Convex Optimization, Polyhedral Combinatorics.

Communication Networks, Machine Learning, and Network Economics.

Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Networks, Markov decision models, Queueing models.

Dynamic data-driven decision support systems, manufacturing, healthcare, and social networks.

Stochastic processes, Queuing Theory, Polling systems, Optimal control, Game theory.

Network Science, Random Graphs, Community Detection, Percolation, and Communication Networks.

Game Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, Cellular Automata, and Algorithms.

Algorithms and Software for Integer and Nonlinear Optimization. Industrial Applications of OR.

Integer Programming, Convex Optimization, and Polyhedral Theory.

Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Approx. Algo, Stochastic Optimization, Dynamical Systems Theory, Robust & Reliable (Gen) AI

OR applications to Logistics, Supply Chain, Railway Operations, and Health Care.

Network Optimization, Transportation and Logistics Network Design, Supply Chain Network Analysis.

Modeling & Distributed Simulation (Discrete-event, System Dynamics), Integrated Supply Chain Analysis.

Applied Probability: Interacting particle systems, large deviations, stochastic control, and mean-field games.
Associated Faculty
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Research Interests: Railway timetabling: development of tools, Singular and descriptor systems: impulse elimination, Dissipative systems: algorithms for storage functions,Operations research: timetabling, bottleneck identification and congestion control, Graph theoretic methods and structural control, Allocation problems and matching techniques |
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jayakrishnan.nair[AT]ee.iitb.ac.in Research Interests: Queueing theory, Communication networks, Heavy tails |
![]() | Om P. Damani(Computer Science Engineering, IITB) damani.cse[AT]iitb.ac.in |
Professor Emeritus
![]() | P.G. Awate (Professor Emeritus, IEOR) prakash.awate[AT]gmail.com Research Interests: Scheduling, Inventory Management, Neural Networks, Knowledge-based Systems |
Visiting Faculty
![]() | Reinoud Joosten (Assistant Professor, University of Twente) r.a.m.g.joosten@utwente.nl Research Interests: Economics : micro, resource & environmental, industrial organization, general equilibrium theory, development economics. Game theory : stochastic games, cooperative games, evolutionary games. Finance : real options, (non-expected) utility, value. Other : internet security, social dilemmas, dynamic systems, computation and equilibrium programming, operations research, mathematical biology, input-output analysis, Markov chains. |
![]() | Ketan Savla (Associate Professor, University of Southern California) ksavla (at) usc (dot) edu Research Interests: Distributed robust and optimal control, dynamical networks, state-dependent queueing systems, and incentive design, with applications in civil infrastructure (e.g., transportation, energy) and robotic (e.g., automated vehicles, multi-agent) systems. |
![]() | Kavita Ramanan (Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, US) kavita_ramanan[AT]brown.edu Research Interests: Probability theory, stochastic processes and their applications, including reflected processes, large deviations theory, high-dimensional probability and applications to asymptotic convex geometry |
![]() | Pietro Belotti (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy) pietro.belotti[AT]polimi.it Research Interests: Discrete nonlinear (global) optimization; exact methods for discrete multiobjective optimization, robust optimization, and open-source software for optimization |
JV Prasad ( FIA, FIAI Research Interests: Analytical techniques in capital modelling, product pricing, fraud management and customer lifecycle analysis. Reserving, pricing, product development and actuarial due-diligence | |
![]() | Royston Fernandes (B.E. (Hons) Production, M.O.M., C.P.I.M.) Research Interests: Supply Chain Strategy, Operations Excellence, Program Management, Supply Chain Analytics. |
![]() | Subodha Dharmapriya (Senior Lecturer, Department of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) subodhad@eng.pdn.ac.lk Research Interests: Simulation Modeling, Meta-heuristics Optimization, Multi-agent Optimization, and applications in Supply Chain and Logistics |
Retired Faculty
![]() | subash [AT] me.iitb.ac.in Research Interests: Manufacturing Systems, Quality Management, Entrepreneurship |
![]() | Siddhartha SenGupta (Adjunct Professor) Research Interests: Large scale automated Automated Railway Planning, Transportation planning, Creating value from ICT, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (including Pricing/Revenue Management), Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence |











