Dr. Ishwar Murthy’s research interests are in Network and Discrete Optimization, Stochastic Optimization, Mathematical Programming Applications in Telecommunications and Expert Systems. He has numerous publications in leading journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, Networks, Discrete Applied Mathematics and INFORMS Journal on Computing.

He has served as full time faculty at IIMB from 2000 till his retirement in October 2022. Prior to joining IIMB, he was a tenured faculty member at Louisiana State University. He has also served as a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Georgia Tech University, University of Texas at Dallas, and Bilkent University, Turkey.