IEOR besides having its own core faculty is supported by faculty members from different departments, with specializations that are helpful to the group. Besides offering courses, the faculty develop professional interactions with industry, service sectors like Railways and government agencies like Department of Science and Technology and Department of Information Technology. Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran is the current Head of IEOR.
Students in the different post-graduate programmes (M.Tech, M.Sc.-Ph.D. dual degree, Ph.D.) exhibit a healthy mixture of varied backgrounds, such as mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research and computer science.