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Applications invited for Faculty Positions 2025

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) IIT Bombay, is looking for outstanding and motivated candidates with a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering or in any related discipline. Candidates are required to have excellent and proven research track record, very good academic background and strong teaching capabilities. 

Job Profile 

IEOR faculty members are expected to create and maintain a strong research and teaching programme. The faculty are expected to regularly publish/ present their works in top journals and leading conferences. They are also expected to train very good IEOR professionals by teaching graduate and undergraduate level courses, design new courses, develop research/ teaching labs, supervise Masters and Doctoral students, and contribute to the academic and intellectual environment of the department. Faculty are also expected to actively undertake sponsored projects/ research grants, and participate in various outreach activities. IEOR Department and the Institute are committed to fostering an academic environment that can help professional development of faculty members.  

Additional details on various benefits, entitlements, expectations and responsibilities can be found in IITB Faculty Handbook.


Current Application Call for ALL posts:


Areas of Specialisation call-for Assistant / Associate/ Full Professor (2025)

  1. Industrial Engineering: Operations planning & scheduling, Inventory control, Facility & work systems design, Quality, Reliability, Safety, in Industrial and/ or Service systems. 

  2. Digital Enterprise & Automation: Digitalisation & Digital Twinning, Industrial IoT, Edge computing, Cyber-Physical systems, Blockchain, Security, Robotics. 

  3. Data Science: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Change point detection, Computational Data Science, Human-AI interaction, Deep Learning, Large language models, Generative AI. 

  4. IEOR Applications to areas such as Transportation & Mobility, Logistics, Supply Chain, Healthcare, Finance, Energy, Sustainability, Public Sector Organizations, Defence. 

  5. Operations Research: Optimisation, Stochastic processes, Stochastic control, Game theory, Simulation, System dynamics, Approximation & randomized algorithms, Meta-heuristics, Network science, Quantum Computing.

Candidates with exceptional credentials in any area of IE and OR, in addition to the above specific areas, may be considered. 

Desirable: 

  • For Area 1, UG and/or PG degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent is desirable. 

  • For Area 2, Experience in using, installing and/or maintaining relevant equipment, sensors, etc. with adequate exposure to experimentation, numerical modelling and computations is desirable.


Application Process

Interested candidates are requested to submit their application for IEOR via the Online Portal mentioned against the advertisements.  The following documents should be submitted as part of the application to receive full consideration:  (1) Complete curriculum vita, (2) research statement, (3) teaching statement, (4) copies of at least 3 publications, and (5) the filled application form.  

Please email head.ieor [at] iitb.ac.in for any queries.

Candidates should visit <https://www.iitb.ac.in/career/apply> for other  details and latest call-for faculty recruitment.


Note: The applications received in 2024 are under process as per the earlier advertisement/ earlier menitoned areas of specialisation.