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IITK Faculties

The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is renowned for its exceptional faculty members, who play a pivotal role in shaping the institute's academic landscape and research endeavors. Since its establishment in 1959, IIT Kanpur has consistently attracted some of the brightest minds from various fields, creating a dynamic and intellectually stimulating environment for students and researchers alike.

Dedicated to nurturing talent, promoting innovative thinking, and conducting cutting-edge research, the faculty at IIT Kanpur comprises distinguished academics, researchers, and industry experts. Their diverse backgrounds and expertise span across engineering, sciences, humanities, social sciences, and management, ensuring a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to education and research.

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Departments

Economics
Economic Sciences

Joydeep Dutta

Professor, Economics Sciences, Department of Economic Sciences

Somesh K. Mathur

Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Aditya Vikram

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Anand Chopra

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Anna Thottappilly

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Bikramaditya Datta

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Debayan Pakrashi

PhD (University of Queensland)

Deep Mukherjee

Associate Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Mohammad Arshad Rahman

Associate Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Praveen Kulshreshtha

Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

P. Murali Prasad

Professor, Department of Economic Sciences

Sarani Saha

Associate Professor, Economics Group, Department of Economic Sciences

Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

A. K. Ghosh

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

C. S. Upadhyay

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Tapan K. Sengupta

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Ethirajan Rathakrishnan

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Ashish Tewari

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Mangal Kothari

Associate Professor, Departement of Aerospace Engineering

Ashoke De

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Sathesh Mariappan

Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Pritam Chakraborty

Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Professor G. M. Kamath

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Mohammed Ibrahim Sugarno

Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Vaibhav Arghode

Assistant Professor, Departement of Aerospace Engineering

Design

Koumudi Patil

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Satyaki Roy

Professor, Department of Design, Media Technology Centre

Sustainable Energy Engineering

Vaibhav Arghode

Assistant Professor, Departement of Aerospace Engineering

Deepika Swami

Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering

Professor Ashish Garg

Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering

Sachchida Nand Tripathi

Professor Joint Faculty in Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE)

Anandh Subramaniam

Professor, Dept. of Materials Sci. & Engg. Centre for Environmental Sci. & Engg. Dept. of Sustainable Energy Engg.

Aakash Chand Rai

Amarendra Edpuganti

Kanwar Singh Nalwa

Lalit M. Pant

Laltu Chandra

Prabodh Bajpai

Rajeev Jindal

Biological Sciences & Bioengineering

Ashok Kumar

Professor, Department of of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Ashwani Kumar Thakur

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Arun K. Shukla

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Professor Dhirendra S. Katti

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Jayandharan Giridhara Rao

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Pradip Sinha

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

R. Sankararamakrishnan

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Jonaki Sen

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Professor S. Ganesh

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Nitin Gupta

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE)

Saravanan Matheshwaran

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Professor Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Chemical Engineering

Vishal Agarwal

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Animangsu Ghatak

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Anurag Tripathi

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Ashutosh Sharma

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Dieter Mewes

University Professor for Process Engineering

Goutam Deo

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Indranil Saha Dalal

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor Jayant K. Singh

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Jayant M. Modak

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Naveen Tiwari

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Nitin Kaistha

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor Raj Ganesh S. Pala

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Chinmoy Kolay

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Prabin Kumar Ashish

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Partha Narayan Mishra

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Abhas Singh

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Professor Samit Ray Chaudhuri

Dean of Infrastructure and Planning

Animesh Das

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Anubha Goel

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Arghya Das

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Ashu Jain

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Balaji Devaraju

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Bharat Lohani

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Durgesh C. Rai

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Computer Science & Engineering

Sumit Ganguly

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

R.K. Ghosh

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Dheeraj Sanghi

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Rajat Moona

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Mainak Chauduri

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor Manindra Agrawal

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Harish Karnick

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Piyush P. Kurur

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor Amey Karkare

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Subhajit Roy

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Amitabha Mukerjee

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Somenath Biswas

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Electrical Engineering

R.S. Ashwin Kumar

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering.

Aloke Dutta

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Baquer Mazhari

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Shafi Qureshi

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Sandeep Anand

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Saikat Chakrabarti

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Shyama Prasad Das

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Nandini Gupta

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Avinash Joshi

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Santanu Mishra

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Abheejeet Mohapatra

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Parthasarathi Sensarma

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Management Sciences

Prerna Gautam

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

V Giridhar

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Vinay Ramani

Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Mousami Prasad

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Abhinava Tripathi

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Harshal Rajan Mulay

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Suvendu Naskar

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Amit Shukla

Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Anoop Singh

Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Avijit Khanra

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Professor B. V. Phani

Head of Department & Professor Finance, ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ram Tiwari Chair Professor , Chief Investigator: E&ICT Academy, IIT Kanpur Principal Investigator: SBERT Center, IIT Kanpur

Deepu Philip

Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Industrial & Management Engineering

Arun P. Sinha

Professor, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering

Narendra K. Sharma

Professor, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering

Puneet Prakash

Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering

Shashi Shekhar Mishra

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering

Uday S. Racherla

Professor of Innovation & Intellectual Property Management Department of Industrial & Management Engineering

Materials Science & Engineering

Amarendra Kumar Singh

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Anish Upadhyaya

Professor, Department of MSE

Anshu Gaur

Assistant Professor, Department of MSE

Deepak Gupta

Professor, Department of MSE

Dipak Mazumdar

Professor, Department of MSE

Gouthama

Professor, Department of MSE

Professor Kallol Mondal

Professor, Department of MSE

Kaustubh Kulkarni

Assistant Professor, Department of MSE

Krishanu Biswas

Professor, Department of MSE

Monica Katiyar

Professor, Department of MSE

Nilesh Prakash Gurao

Assistant Professor, Department of MSE

Rajdip Mukherjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Department of MSE

Mechanical Engineering

Kamal K. Kar

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Virkeshwar Kumar

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Sarvesh Mishra

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

K R Guruprasad

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Keval S. Ramani

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Anindya Chatterjee

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Anupam Saxena

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Anurag Gupta

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Arun K. Saha

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Arvind Kumar

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Ashish Dutta

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Aurobinda Chatterjee

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Humanities
English

Achla M. Raina

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Chaithra Puttaswamy

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Chinmay Dharurkar

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Gurumurthy Neelakantan

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Lakshmana Rao P

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Mini Chandran

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Muthukumar M

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

N. P. Sudharshana

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences P K Kelkar Fellow

Sayan Chattopadhyay

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Suchitra Mathur

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

T. Ravichandran

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Sh. Francis Monsang

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Fine Arts

Koumudi Patil

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Rajarshi Sengupta

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ritwij Bhowmik

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences & Design Programme

Satyaki Roy

Professor, Department of Design, Media Technology Centre

Shatarupa Thakurta Roy

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Philosophy

A.V. Ravishankar Sarma

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Vineet Sahu

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Lalit Saraswat

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Prashant Bagad

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Sushruth Ravish

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Psychology

Ark Verma

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Devpriya Kumar

Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science

Professor Braj Bhushan

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Kumar Ravi Priya

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Shikha Dixit

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Sociology

Arun Kumar Sharma

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Anindita Chakrabarti

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Binay Kumar Pattnaik

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Esha Chatterjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Jillet Sarah Sam

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Munmun Jha

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Thounaojam Somokanta

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Pradip Swarnakar

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Inter-disciplinary Programs
Materials Science Programme

Yashowanta N. Mohapatra

Professor, Department of Physics

Rajeev Gupta

Professor, Department of Physics

Kamal K. Kar

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Sciences
Chemistry

Dharmaraja Allimuthu

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

Devendra Mani

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

Ganapathi Anantharaman

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Gurunath Ramanathan

Professor, Department of Chemistry

J. N. Moorthy

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Professor Jitendra K. Bera

Professor, Department of Chemistry

K. Srihari

Professor, Department of Chemistry

M. L. N. Rao

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Madhav Ranganathan

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Mainak Sadhukhan

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

Manabendra Chandra

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Professor Manas K. Ghorai

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Cognitive Science

Jonaki Sen

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Harish Karnick

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Ark Verma

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Bishakh Bhattacharya

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Nitin Gupta

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE)

Nisheeth Srivastava

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

A.V. Ravishankar Sarma

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Devpriya Kumar

Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science

Vineet Sahu

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Indra Sekhar Sen

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science

Himanshu Yadav

Assistant Professor Department of Cognitive Science

Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering

Prashant Pathak

Assistant Professor, Department of Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering

Earth Sciences

Professor Debajyoti Paul

Professor, Departement of Earth Sciences

Animesh Mandal

Assistant Professor, Departement of Earth Science

Deepak Dhingra

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Science

Dibakar Ghosal

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences

Indra Sekhar Sen

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science

Rajiv Sinha

Professor, Departement of Earth Sciences

Ishwar Kumar Cukkemane

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences

Santanu Misra

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences

Mathematics & Statistics

Abhijit Pal

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Ajay Singh Thakur

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Akash Anand

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Alok Kumar Maloo

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Amit Kuber

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Amit Mitra

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Aparna Dar

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Ashis Mandal

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

B. V. Rathish Kumar

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Dr. Bidyut Sanki

Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Dootika Vats

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Debasis Kundu

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Physics

Aditya H. Kelkar

Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Amit Kumar Agarwal

Professor, Department of Physics

Anand Kumar Jha

Professor, Department of Physics

Anjan Kumar Gupta

Professor, Department of Physics

Arjun Bagchi

Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Arijit Kundu

Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Asima Pradhan

Professor, Department of Physics

Avinash Singh

Professor, Department of Physics

Arnab Pal

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

Chandrima Banerjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

Debashish Chowdhury

Professor, Department of Physics

Debtosh Chowdhury

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics