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.

IIT Jammu team shall be available for Faculty Search in Germany and USA during June 2018.

The venue is to be finalized shortly and shall be shared with the shortlisted candidates via their registered email IDs. Enthusiastic qualified candidates from the USA are encouraged to apply for consideration and meeting. For the faculty search-cum-selection committee interaction, the shortlisted candidates will be required to give an e-seminar (skype) from May 25 onwards till June 15. Candidates shortlisted at this stage will be invited for interaction with the faculty search-cum-selection committee in Chicago, USA -travel will be reimbursed (up to the limit of USD 500 on the production of receipts) or in HPI, Potsdam, Germany.

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

Last date of online application submission: June 15, 2018, 05 pm IST.

For online application submission please visit: https://apply.iitjammu.ac.in and select the

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: Soilstructure interaction, Ground Improvement Techniques, Foundation Design, Machine Foundations, Slope Stability, Landslides, Dynamic Site 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.

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.

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; Microand 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