Department of Computer Science and Engineering Center for AI and Supercomputing

Call for Faculty Applications

• Assistant Professor
• Associate Professor
• Professor

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Mahindra University invites applications for full-time faculty positions at all ranks, in association with the university’s Center for AI and Supercomputing. We are building depth in nine research groups that span the foundations of computing, intelligent systems, and their applications to problems of societal and industrial importance. We seek colleagues with a strong research record, a clear and independent research agenda, and a commitment to excellent teaching and mentoring at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. Candidates whose work bridges two or more groups are especially encouraged to apply. Faculty hired through this call will be affiliated with the Center for AI and Supercomputing and are expected to contribute to its research programmes, alongside their teaching in the department.

Research Groups and Areas of Hiring





Group 1: Transportation and Smart Mobility. A new group applying evolutionary computation and reinforcement learning to mobility systems. Areas of interest include traffic signal control and network optimisation, multi-agent and safe RL for autonomous and connected vehicles, fleet routing and logistics, electric vehicle charging and energy manage-ment, demand forecasting, and simulation and digital twins of urban transport. We seek candidates who can work with real-world data and build partnerships with industry and public agencies.

Group 2: NLP, LLMs, Generative AI and Foundation Models. Research on large and small language models and multimodal foundation models. Areas include efficient training and inference, optimisation of small language models (distillation, quantisation, pruning, parameter-effective fine-tuning), retrieval-augmented and agentic systems, evaluation and benchmarking, low-resource an

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