I am an associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology. Here is my departmental contact page.
Here is my short Curriculum Vitae with a summary of my academic activities.
My full Curriculum Vitae has a detailed outline of my academic activities. [Last updated: February 2026]
I am a member of the Discrete Applied Math group at IIT.
My research interests lie, broadly speaking, in Discrete Mathematics, especially Graph Theory, Network Optimization, and related models, algorithms,
and interdisciplinary applications in transportation networks, health networks, and computer science. Also,
ethical aspects of mathematical and optimization models, and particularly in equitable allocation
of resources.
See more about my research related activities from the Research and Papers links at the top of the page, or in my CV above.
I am a co-Leader of the Supporting Pathways for Advancing Readiness in Computing (SPARC) scholarship program since 2025. I co-created this STEM program with M. Bilgic, CS; I. Cialenco, Applied Math, G. Gopal, ITM, in 2024-25 supported by a $2M NSF S-STEM grant. This university-wide program is built upon coordination with administrative offices across the university, including Admissions, Financial Aid, Marketing, Student Success, Health Services, Dean and Provost offices, to built a complete administrative structure encompassing recruitment, admissions, financial aid, advising, mentorship, and evaluation, to ensure student success from academics to future careers. See this news article on the program.
I am the Co-Director of the graduate program in Computational Decision Science and Operations Research (CDSOR), at IIT, since 2015. I co-created this joint program between Applied Math and Computer Science with Sanjiv Kapoor of CS, IIT.
See more about my curriculum development and teaching related activities from the Teaching link at the top of the page, or in my CV above.
I am the co-advisor of the IIT chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) since 2012.
SIAM chapter is active in organizing activities, including talks, panel discussions on career advice, an
annual student conference with participants from all over the midwest, and social events, including a series
of talks introducing all mathematics research groups, and a new series of talks on ‘my favorite theorem’
to popularize mathematics, with funding from SIAM and the student government.
I am the team advisor of the IIT teams for Mathematical Contest in Modeling, since 2015 when I advised the first team from IIT to participate in this prestigious international mathematical modeling contest. See more about my student mentorship activities from the Mentorship link at the top of the page, or in my CV.
I was an AMS Project NExT Fellow, 2007-08.
I graduated from the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was a member of the Combinatorics and Graph Theory research group, and the Simulation and Optimization laboratory (a part of Operations Research at UIUC). My dissertation was co-directed by Professors Sheldon Jacobson and Douglas West.
Earlier, I studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (and, got my first taste of graph theory in a thesis I wrote under the supervision of Prof. Sriram Pemmaraju) and at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
Contact Information
Mail: Department of Applied Mathematics,
Illinois Institute of Technology,
125C, Retalliatta Engineering Center,
10 West 32nd Street,
Chicago, IL 60616,
Tel: (312) 567-8980
Fax: (312) 567-3135
Email: kaul at iit.edu
Webpage: http://www.math.iit.edu/~kaul