Department-Wise Area of Specialization

Established in 1964, the aerospace engineering department is among the leading departments for research and education in aerospace engineering comprising the core specializations of aerodynamics, flight mechanics, propulsion, and aerospace structures. Over the years, the department has engaged with a large number of organizations including NAL, GTRE, HAL, DRDL, ADE, ARDE, ADA, ADRDE, ISRO, IAF, USAF, BARC, Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, Airbus and GE for scientific and engineering research.

The department seeks applications from dynamic and motivated candidates with excellent academic record along with specialization in the any of the following domains:

Aerodynamics stream: – Aeroacoustics; Aerodynamics of bio-inspired vehicles; Fluid-structure interactions (FSI), computational FSI; High-fidelity computational aerodynamics simulation for low/high-speed flow regimes; Testing and instrumentation for low/high-speed flows.
Aerospace propulsion stream: – Turbomachinery: experimental methods, full-scale computations, and flutter; Electric propulsion; Novel propulsion systems for drones and space applications; Solid propellants.
Aerospace structures stream: – Dynamics and vibrations of flexible structures; Aeroelasticity: experimental and computational methods; Experimental solid mechanics; Design of aerospace vehicle structures (including vehicles for space exploration); Structures for spacecraft and satellite applications; Structural integrity and health monitoring.
Flight dynamics and controls stream : – Flight dynamics of aircraft (fixed, rotary and flapping wings), coupled computational aeromechanics and control; Satellite and spacecraft dynamics; Flight vehicle guidance and control.
Other areas: – Space vehicles and payload technologies; Green/Sustainable aviation; Stealth technologies for aerospace applications; Scientific machine learning surrogates and digital twins for aerospace applications; Unmanned aerial vehicle technology (design, integration, guidance & control, and their applications); Multi-disciplinary design optimization (MDO); Designs for futuristic flight vehicles; Avionics and aerospace systems, Integrated vehicle health management; Coupled aero-structure-EM computations; Internal aerodynamics; Novel sensors for aerospace and space applications; Next-generation materials and manufacturing processes for aerospace applications; High energy material/energetics for aerospace applications;
It is strongly desirable that at least one of the degrees should be in Aerospace/Aeronautical engineering.

The department website link is https://www.iitk.ac.in/aero

Professor G. M. Kamath, HOD
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The Computer Science and Engineering department of IIT Kanpur would like to invite faculty applications in all fields of Computer Science and Computer Engineering. The department is particularly strong in theoretical computer science, machine learning, data mining and database technologies, cyber physical systems including unmanned systems, and cyber security. There are also outstanding faculty in program analysis, compilers, computer architecture, networked distributed systems, human-computer interaction, visual computing, privacy-preserving technologies, and algorithms. Any applicant interested in joining an outstanding group in any of these fields will surely be benefited in a thriving research environment in this department. The department has established a large center on cyber security of critical infrastructures, a center for cyber physical systems, and a center for intelligent systems. We have created advanced and specialized labs infrastructure related to these areas. So, newly joining faculty will benefit from these facilities, the human-resource, and the multi-faceted research environment of these centers.

We are very keen to hire multiple faculty at all levels depending on the experience level of candidates in the following fields.

Cyber Security, Cryptography and Crypto Engineering
Internet of Things
Networking, Software Defined Networking, Cognitive Networks
Deep Learning, Neural network
Human Centric Computing
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
Compiler Technology, Program Analysis
Formal Methods and Formal Verification
Application of Machine Learning in various problem domains
Very Large Database Technologies
Cyber Physical Systems
Theoretical Computer Science: Algorithms and Complexity Theory
Privacy-preserving Technologies
Visual Computing

Visit our department website at http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/ to know more. For any queries, please contact the Head of the Department ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).

Professor Surender Baswana, HOD
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Applications are invited for faculty positions in the following areas.

English :

Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Indo-Aryan Linguistics, Language Documentation and Description, Neurolinguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, English Language Teaching, Second Language Acquisition, Dravidian Linguistics, Modern American Literature, British Literature, Indian Literature and Aesthetics, Latin American Literature, Asian/East Asian Literature, Postmodern American Literature, Literature and the Environment, Contemporary Critical Theory, Posthumanism, Climate Fiction and Films, Disability Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, African/Caribbean Studies, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities.

Fine Arts:

Visual Culture, Art and Aesthetics, History of Art, Folk and Tribal Art, Cinema Studies, Participatory/Community Arts, Craft theory and practice, Far-Eastern Art, Indian Art and Western Art Painting, Graphic Art (Print Making), Design (Ceramics, Textile), Sculpture.

Qualifications: B.F.A/B.V.A + M.F.A/M.V.A along with PhD in Visual Arts. (Candidates with M.A. in Fine Arts or M.Des need not apply.)

Philosophy:

Aesthetics, Contemporary Western Philosophy (Analytical and Continental), Epistemology, Ethics, Indian Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Social-Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics.

Psychology:

Organizational Behaviour, Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental Psychology, and Cross-cultural Psychology, with expertise in Advanced Research Methods and Quantitative Techniques of Behavioural Science Data Analysis.

Sociology:

Economic Sociology, Sociology of Kinship, Political Sociology, Sociological Research Methods (Quantitative Techniques), Digital Sociology, Agrarian Sociology.

For more information about the department, please visit our website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/hss.

Professor Mini Chandran, HOD
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Applications are invited from interested faculty candidates having proven track record in experimental and/or modeling background and expertise in materials, processes, and systems related to following priority areas:

Sustainable Bioresource Engineering: Cutting edge of renewables, converting bioresources into energy and biomaterials, bioresource systems including an understanding of key environmental, economic, and social drivers of demand and change including climate change and food security.
Ecological Restoration and Management: Soil Health and Environment, Soil health index, Advanced remote and proximal sensing methods in a unique and complex salt-affected environment to test and refine Al technologies, with the potential for significant agricultural, environmental, and socio-economic benefits. Social-ecological understanding of human Environment interactions, Ecological Economics and System Dynamics,
Urban Sustainability: Urban infrastructures (including smart cities); urban ecosystems, holistic and strategic city/Land use planning and development within mobility and infrastructure, climate adaptation, as well as environmentally conscious architecture and construction. Applicants should have a research record focused on urban areas using interdisciplinary approaches, such as from the physical, ecological, and social sciences, and that bridges theory-to-practice. Research areas can include: urban climate solutions, urban mitigation and adaptation to climate change, urban green and blue infrastructure, urban materials, the built environment, 'informal settlements, housing, transport, resilience, and energy.
Circular Economy: Systemic circular economy solutions in cities and regions for currently underutilized or unused plastic waste, end-of-life electric vehicle batteries and bio-based waste and side streams, Environmental system analysis, industrial ecology, or similar areas such as e.g., life cycle engineering, waste quantification (e.g., plastic waste, end-of-life electric vehicle batteries, and/or bio-based waste) and sustainability assessment, or logistic & spatial optimization, green manufacturing and innovation for a circular economy etc.
Waste Reuse/Recycling and Resource Recovery: Sustainability and resilience of water, sludge, solid/hazardous waste and agricultural residue management in India, Systems Approaches for Sustainable Engineering, with a mission to advance environmental engineering solutions in water-energy-waste systems through the development and use of decision-making tools in support of achieving a sustainable planet, to draw upon advanced tools such as life cycle analysis (LCA), data science (machine learning and artificial intelligence), statistical and stochastic modeling, data driven methodologies, and risk analysis to develop optimal solutions that address societal challenges while considering technical feasibility, economic, social, public and environmental health outcomes.
Climate Resilience: Climate resilience of India by assessing, monitoring, and predicting the current and potential climate change impacts on natural resources, urbanizing land use and agriculture and developing mitigation and adaptation strategies. Research findings are expected to also have global relevance.
Environmental Law and Public Policy: Technical support and strategic guidance to Government and other stakeholders on environmental and social performance, including environmental management, climate risk/assessment and policies.
Environmental Science and Engineering: Climate, Atmospheric, Environmental Science and Modelling.

Academic Programmes: The school is expected to offer Undergraduate, Masters' and Doctoral programs.

For more information about the department, please visit our website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/kss.

Professor SN Tripathi, Dean
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Applications are invited from interested faculty candidates (for assistant and associate professor positions) having a strong engineering background and proven track record in to any of the following priority areas:

Solar Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal Energy Generation
Fuel Cells
Wind/Hydro/Tidal Energy
Nuclear Energy
Green Hydrogen Generation
Waste to Energy
Hydrogen Storage and Transport
Thermal Energy Storage Systems
Renewable-Based Power Systems
Smart-Grid and Micro-Grid
Electric Vehicles
Control Systems and Optimization
Energy Modelling, Energy Transition and Decarbonization
Energy Efficient Built-Environment, Net-Zero and Smart Buildings

Applicants must have a strong track record of conducting cutting-edge research in any of the above areas with expertise in one or more of the following aspects i.e. design, modelling, analysis and development of materials and devices, processes and systems (for example, thermal and electrochemical systems), electrical/electronics/control engineering, integration of large/deployment scale systems, energy modelling and energy policy. The preferred candidates must hold a PhD degree with an excellent academic record throughout and should preferably possess an undergraduate degree in an appropriate area of engineering.

Candidates with an excellent track record in any other exciting, futuristic areas of Sustainable Energy Engineering that are not listed above may also be considered.

Candidates with an excellent track record in any other exciting futuristic areas of Energy Sustainability that are not listed above may also be considered.

Academic Programmes: The department is currently offering Masters' and Doctoral programs as well as minor options to undergraduates and master’s options to dual degree students.

Facilities and support: The institute possesses extensive laboratory facilities with many advanced state-of-the-art equipment to carry out cutting-edge research and development. The institute also offers a generous start-up package for initiating the research, a relocation package, and a top-up salary (for the first three years) to all the new faculty members. See ‘Other information’ at the end of the advertisement for more details.

For more information, please visit the department website https://www.iitk.ac.in/see.

Professor Ashish Garg, HOD
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The Department of Intelligent Systems at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur invites bright, innovative, and dedicated scholars to join our newly established department to shape the future of Intelligent Systems. We are looking for talented faculty members across all relevant disciplines to help build a cutting-edge department focused on advancing intelligent systems and related fields.

DIS is a part of a School (WSAIS) which is designed as an interdisciplinary organization to sustain impactful research and development in IIT Kanpur. The 5 Centers that DIS faculty will interact with are:

Wadhwani Center for Advanced AI (CAA)
Wadhwani Center for Developing Intelligent Systems (CDIS)
Wadhwani Center for Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity of Cyber-physical Systems (C3i)
Wadhwani Center for Robotics (CR)
Wadhwani Center for AI Policy and Outreach (CAPO).

Research Areas of Interest
We welcome applications in a broad range of research areas, including but not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Data Science and Big Data Analytics
Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
Optimization and Control
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Computer Security
Software Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction

Example: A candidate who has experience in publishing in the following venues would be a good fit: AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, ICAPS, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, WWW, KDD, ACL, ENMLP, NAACL, CVPR, ICCV, EMSOFT, RTSS, RTAS, ICCPS, HSCC, CDC, ACC, ICRA, IROS, RSS, MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, CCS, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, FSE, ICSE, ASE, CHI, UBICOMP, and Marquee conferences or journals in CSE or EE.

R&D: DIS and WSAIS aim to hire researchers, who have demonstrated high calibre either in research published in the top-most venues, or in technology translation work done on a large-scale.

Job Description:
A faculty member is expected to conduct cutting-edge research in her/his area of expertise leading to high-quality publications and teach 2-3 courses per year. S/he is expected to attract funding for her/his research and development activities from government or private funding agencies. The department and the school highly encourage, and support, entrepreneurial and consultation activities.

Application Process:

Application for the faculty position is accepted throughout the year. Interested candidates are requested to officially apply through the IITK website (https://pingala.iitk.ac.in/IITKFR-0/login), and email the following documents to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

“R&D vision” statement. Please elaborate on: Why WSAIS is a good fit for you in the long-term? How will you contribute to the development/translational focus of the School? E.g. the ability to raise funding and deliver on projects are key desirables: How do you see yourself in that role?
Teaching statement. Please elaborate on teaching students, as well as, large-scale training in the School Outreach activities.
CV.
Referees. List 3-5 known experts who are able to comment on the achievements and the future potential of the candidate. The department will contact the referees for their recommendation letters for the candidate.

Selected candidates will be invited for a seminar and an interaction with the existing faculty members and students. The institute will cover travel expenses for shortlisted candidates within India.

Why Join Us?
Our department offers a vibrant, collaborative, and flexible work environment with attractive support for research, teaching and professional growth.

Ours is a unique setup in the Indian academia wherein the opportunity of working on local problems, national projects, and industry collaborations is baked in its foundation. This is made possible by a generous grant pledge from the Wadhwani Charitable Foundation (WCF) and is implemented by its various innovation/entrepreneurial networks (e.g. WIN). You will be expected to lead a domain of this national SuperHub and mentor the other Hubs.

Professor Nitin Saxena, Dean
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Professor Indranil Saha, HOD
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Department-Wise Area of Specialization

Appointments in the relevant Departments to work jointly with the Interdisciplinary Programs (IDPs)