Prof. Jhareswar Maiti

Prof. Jhareswar Maity, PhD, Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur has more than fifteen years of teaching, research and consulting experience on Safety Analytics, Quality Analytics and Engineering Ergonomics. He has published more than 70 papers in international and national journals of repute and more than 30 papers in conference proceedings. Till date, he has supervised 11 PhD candidates to successful completion and currently supervising 8 PhD research candidates. He has been executing a number of Industry-sponsored consulting and Government as well industry funded research projects. His current UAY project entitled Safety analytics save people at work from accidents and injuries was funded by MHRD, Ministry of Steel, and Tata Steel Limited. He has organized 17 training programmes and short-term courses for industry participants. Prof Maiti has been pursuing research on safety analytics, quality analytics, and engineering ergonomics including the applications of multivariate statistical modeling since 1995. Prof Maiti excels in teaching Safety Engineering, Safety Analytics, Work System Design, Quality Engineering, Design and Analysis of Experiments (DOE), Six-sigma Fundamentals and Applications, and Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling. A 42 lecture series on "Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling" of Prof Maiti is available in Youtube uploaded by NPTEL (national programme on technology enhanced learning). Prof Maiti has been serving the editorial board member of several international journals of repute. Presently he is the editorial board member of Safety Science published by Elsevier Science, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, published from Taylor & Francis, and Safety and Health at Work (SHAW) published by Elsevier Science