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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. 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 ManagementJanuary - April 2026
Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (including Pricing and Revenue Management)IE 102 : Probability and Statistics (slot 10) - co-taught with N.Hemachandra
Applications to Health CareIE 102 is only for first year IEOR B.Tech students
Applications of O.R. in the aviation sector 
Applications in O.R. to Sports and other sectorsCourses taught earlier
Other linksResource page for IEOR B.Tech students
Contributions to BooksRandom material -->
Publications / Notes / Presentations / Case StudiesPlaces to see and what to do in Mumbai
M.Tech theses supervisedPointless geographical and other trivia
Ph.D. and M.S. (by research) studentsOptimisation and applications
Research presentationsMy real interest in trains !