INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

JAMMU, JAGTI, NH 44, PO NAGROTA,

JAMMU (J&K) 181221

Advertisement No. IITJMU/Faculty/04/2018

IIT Jammu invites applications from Indian Nationals, Persons of Indian Origins (PIOs),
Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs), and Foreign Nationals with proven academic credentials and
who have a passion for teaching and research, for faculty positions at the level of Professor,
Associate Professor, Assistant Professor (Grade I & II) and Visiting Professor in the
following disciplines:
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Humanities & Social Science, Material Science & Engineering,
Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics.
Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree in one of the above disciplines. Industry experience
and/or post-doctoral experience is highly desirable. Candidates must have a passion for
excellence in both research and teaching.
IIT Jammu offers one of the best possible compensation, facilities, and support systems on the
lines of other centrally funded institutes of higher education. Additionally, IIT Jammu provides a
healthy start-up research grant and relocation expenses at the time of joining. For more
information, please visit the website http://iitjammu.ac.in/faculty-search-cum-selection Interested
candidates may apply via online application portal https://apply.iitjammu.ac.in
Senior Level Positions. At senior levels, IIT Jammu hopes to attract a select few who have a
well-established global reputation in research and development, and who can take leadership
for new centers, programs, etc. Applications are particularly invited from senior researchers who
are looking for a suitable opportunity to establish a center in India in some specialized area,
particularly promoting interdisciplinary research.

Application submission starts on May 25, 2018, 05:00 pm IST.

There is no last of online application submission.
For online application submission please visit: https://apply.iitjammu.ac.in and select the tab
Faculty Search Abroad to apply.
For any further information/queries on this, please send an email to us at
facultysearch.abroad [at] iitjammu.ac.in
Disciplines and Areas of Interest

The main disciplines of interest and the main focus-areas within each discipline are given below.
Recruitment is not limited to these areas only and candidates in other areas within these
disciplines are also encouraged to apply.

Chemistry

Candidate must have PhD in Chemistry, and at least 3 years of Postdoctoral experience, from a
reputed institution with a good research record and background. While all areas will be
considered, the following areas are currently of special interest:

Organic Chemistry: C-H Activation, Bio-organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Total Synthesis.
Inorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Synthesis, Physical-inorganic Chemistry, Molecular
Magnetism.
Physical Chemistry: Spectroscopy, Colloidal and Surface Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry
and Electrochemistry.
Catalysis: Heterogeneous Catalysis.

Civil Engineering

Candidates must have PhD in Civil Engineering, or an allied area, from a reputed institution, and
a good research record and background. While candidates from all areas will be considered, the
following areas are currently of special interest:
Structural Engineering: Underground Structures, Tunneling, Rock mechanics, Smart
Structures, Advanced Materials, Seismic Design of steel and reinforced concrete structures,
Structural Health monitoring, Repair and retrofitting, Static and dynamic analysis of structures,
Finite element method, Bridge engineering, Wind Engineering, Pre-stressed concrete,
Multiscale Modelling, Continuum Mechanics, Computational Material Science

Geotechnical Engineering: Soil–structure interaction, Ground Improvement Techniques,

Foundation Design, Machine Foundations, Slope Stability, Landslides, Dynamic Site
Characterization & Soil Liquefaction, Seismic Hazard Assessment, Geosynthetics and
Reinforced Slopes, Geology.

Transportation Engineering: Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning, operations and

control, Traffic-flow modelling and simulation, transportation networks, Highway engineering,
Pavement Engineering, Road-infrastructure asset management, Railways and Rapid
transportation.

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering: Air and water quality monitoring,
modelling and management, indoor and outdoor pollution, water and wastewater treatment,
solid and hazardous waste management, Hydrologic modelling, stochastic and spatial
hydrology, computational hydraulics, ground water, aquifer modelling and management, water
resources planning and management, urban water supply and GIS/remote sensing applications,
Fluid Mechanics.

Computer Science & Engineering

Candidates must have PhD in Computer Science, or in allied area, from a reputed institution,
and a good research record and background. While candidates from all areas will be
considered, the following areas are currently of special interest:

Information Security and Privacy: All aspects including Web Security, Security of Critical
Infrastructure, Privacy and Security in online Social Media, Network Security, Secure
Application Development, Cryptology etc.
Systems, Mobile computing, Sensor Networks, networking: Including Distributed Systems,
Operating Systems, Networks, Platforms, Middleware, etc.
Data Science and Engineering: Including Data Science, Databases, Data Mining, Data
Visualization, Big Data, Managing Data on cloud, Data Warehousing and Data Engineering, etc.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning: Including Deep Learning, Model Building, Social
Media Analysis, etc.
Human Computer Interaction: Including Interaction Design, Coordination and Collaboration,
Gesture based Interaction, Intelligent and Adaptive Interfaces, Interface for Mobile Devices,
Speech Interfaces, Information Interfaces, Multimodal Interfaces, Human-Robot Interfaces,
Computational Design, Cognition, etc.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages: Including Empirical Software
Engineering, Code Analysis, Testing, Mining Software Repositories, Semantics, Language
Translation, etc.
Digital media: Including Computer Graphics, Animation, Game Development, Data
Visualization, Virtual/Mixed Reality, Web Media and Social Media etc.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. See Computational Biology below.

Other areas: Algorithms, Theory of Computing, Computational Neuroscience, etc.

Electrical Engineering

Candidates must have PhD in EE, or in allied area, from a reputed institution, and a good
research record and background. While candidates from all areas will be considered, the
following areas are currently of special interest:

Circuits/Electronics: VLSI/CAD & Nano-Electronics; Mixed-Signal/ Analog circuits / RF

transceivers; Low Power Electronics, 3D ICs, Multi-core Processors and New Architectures,
Systems-on-chip and Network-on-chip, I/O etc.
Communications/Networks: Wireless Communication and Networks; Integration of Wired/
Wireless Networks, Applications to transportation, Energy Grids and Next Generation
Networking, Information Theory and Network Science, Spectrum Policy and Management etc.
Signal/Image Processing: Multimedia Systems; Image Compression & Processing; Speech
Recognition, Processing, Translation to text; Bio-Medical Imaging and Applications to Systems
Biology etc.
Energy Systems and Technologies: Energy Sensing, Management and Operations, Power
Electronics, Smart Grid Technologies (Communications and Control, Distributed Operations),
Control and Automation, Electrical Machine and Drives.
Embedded Systems, Controls: IOT, Embedded Systems, Emerging Low Power/Low Cost
Sensor Net Platforms, Controls with applications to Cyber-Physical Systems etc.

Humanities and Social Sciences

The Institute aims to establish a broad-based HSS school where the inherent connections
between engineering and sciences, and HSS are exploited. Having done research in the area of
Technology and Society is highly desirable; however, candidates who may have worked in
related areas but have research plans to work on problems in this area are also welcome to
apply. While candidates from all areas will be considered, the following areas are currently of
special interest:

Culture studies: Culture and Technology, Internet and Society, Technology and Social
Change, Laws and Ethics in Technology, Agriculture and Technology in Society, Technology
and the Subaltern, Technology and Pop Culture, Technology and Imagination, Food and
Technology, Ethnography
Economics: Computational Economics, Econometrics, Economics of information, auctions,
game theory, mechanism design, pricing, development studies (particularly relating to
technology related development), etc.
Education: Technology and Education, Educating in Sciences, Smart Pedagogy, Technical
Education etc.
Literature: Science Fiction, Literature and Technology, South Asian Literatures, Sciences and
Literature, Literature and Society, Translation Studies, Contemporary World Literature, Literary
and the Visual, Scientific Literature, Postcolonial literature
Linguistics: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, language acquisition, Speech Recognition,
Psychology: Computational psychology / Neuroscience, interface design, Cognition, Social
Psychology, Educational Psychology, motivation, Organizational Psychology etc.
Philosophy: Philosophy of science, Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy
of Logic, Epistemology, knowledge society, etc.
Political Science/Public Policy: Governance and e-governance, policies for ICT, internet
governance, International Relations, War and Peace keeping with respect to Technology.
Media and Communication Studies: Digital and social media, interpersonal and intercultural
communication, health communication, mobile media, writing in the age of the Internet, Media
and Social Change, Surveillance, Satellites and global media infrastructure etc.
Other Areas: Social Entrepreneurship, Digital Humanities, History of science and technology,
etc.

Mathematics

Candidates must have PhD in Mathematics or in related areas from a reputed institution, and a
good research record and background. While candidates from all areas will be considered, the
following areas are currently of special interest:

Core Areas: Algebra, Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry, Topology,
Functional Analysis, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis etc.
Probability, Statistics, Data Science: Probability and Statics, Probabilistic Modeling, Statistical
Learning, Monte Carlo Methods, Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, Deep Learning, etc.
Network Science: Graph Theory, Networks, Statistical Physics etc.
Scientific Computing: Numerical Methods, Finite Element Techniques, Differential Equations
etc.
Optimization: All areas of Optimization including Linear/ Non-Linear/ Integer/Dynamic/
Mathematical Programming, Combinatorial /Stochastic Optimization, Heuristics, etc.
Other areas: Coding Theory, Cryptography, Control Theory, Combinatorics, Modeling,
Mathematical Finance, etc.
Mechanical Engineering

Candidate must have PhD in Mechanical Engineering, or in allied areas, from a reputed
institution, and a good research record and background. While all areas will be considered, the
following areas are currently of special interest:

Thermal: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Turbomachines; Energy Systems; Micro-and Nano

Fluidics; Renewable Energy Systems; Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat
Transfer; Fluid Instabilities, Chaos and Turbulence; Bio-Fluid Mechanics.
Design: Theoretical and Computational Mechanics; Experimental Solid Mechanics; Dynamic
Fracture Mechanics; Vibrations and Control; CAD/CAM; Smart Materials and Structures;
Tribology; Fatigue.
Manufacturing: Unconventional Machining Methods & Automation; Additive Manufacturing;
Surface Engineering; Advanced Casting Processes; Industrial Engineering; Nano-Micro
Manufacturing; Laser Based Machining; Metal forming Methods; Supply Chain Management;
Quality Management; Advanced Welding Techniques.
Other Important Areas: Acoustics; Sound-Structure interaction; Fluid-Structure Interaction;
Noise Control; MEMS/NEMS; Robotics; Nuclear Engineering.
Physics
Candidates must have PhD in Physics or in related areas from a reputed institution, and a good
research record and background. While candidates from all areas will be considered, the
following areas are currently of special interest:

Functional materials: That primarily includes magnetic, electric and superconducting materials
Nonlinear optics and Photonics
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Statistical Physics
Colloidal and Polymer Physics

Note: Against the standing rolling advertisement for faculty search cum selection process.
though Institute is looking for all the different areas of Engineering and Sciences, depending
upon the current