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Job Opportunity - Computation and Data Sciences Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

The Centre for Computational and Data Sciences (CCDS), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India invites applications for permanent faculty positions at all levels in different areas of computational and data sciences. The candidates are expected to possess exceptional potential in conducting independent research activities, demonstrate a strong commitment to quality teaching and contribute towards the development of other professional activities.

The candidates are also expected to contribute to and strengthen interdisciplinary research and develop new courses in different domains of computational and data sciences. Candidates working in other emerging interdisciplinary research areas involving the use of high-performance computing platform and development of application tools are also encouraged to apply.

Desired Qualifications

Applications from the Indian Nationals, Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) are welcome. Candidates with excellent track record in academics and research with good publications in reputed international journals and strong communication skills are encouraged to apply. Further details of the eligibility criteria and the application procedure can be found on CCDS website.

About the CCDS

CCDS was established in March 2017 with a mandate to promote the next generation of interdisciplinary research and teaching activities that involve state-of-the-art high performance computing (HPC) platforms. IIT Kharagpur is going to get a supercomputing facility of 1.3 Peta-flop computing power under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), Govt. of India. This facility will be built, managed and operated under CCDS to provide large-scale computational support to the researchers of IIT Kharagpur, who are engaged in research activities in diverse areas of national importance.

The research activities of CCDS will address building hardware and software for HPC systems, Data Management, Analytics, Visualizations, etc, along with promoting cutting-edge research in different HPC application domains that include but are not limited to Drug Design, Atmospheric Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Geo-Scientific Computations, Modeling and Mining of Heterogeneous Information Network, Numerical Mathematics, Computational Mechanics, etc.

Contact Information

Professor S. Bandyopadhyay

Head, Centre for Computational and Data Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur – 721302, India

E-mail: sanjoy@chem.iitkgp.ac.in Phone: 91-3222-283344

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