1. Presently Working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of  Production and Industrial Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra from September 2021. 
2. Worked as a Temporary Faculty Member in the School of Management Science, Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur from November 2020 to August 2021.
3. Worked as a Data Scientist at Marteck Solutions Pvt. Ltd. from June 2020 to October 2020
4. Worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology,  University College Cork, Ireland from July 2019 to December 2019
5. Worked as a Senior Project Engineer at IIT Kanpur from February 2019 to June 2019
6. Worked as a Senior Project Associate at IIT Kanpur from March 2018 to January 2018

Optimization of Inter-woven Problems, Single and Multi-Objective Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Meta-heuristics, Operations Research, Operations Management

1. University Medal for coming first in order of merit at the Master of Production Engineering, Jadavpur University (2010).
2. Best Paper award for the track facility layout and planning at IEOM-2015 international conference at Dubai, UAE; March 3-5, 2015.
3. Best Paper award for the track facility layout and planning at IEOM-2016 international conference at Kualalumpur, Malaysia; March 8-10, 2016.
4. Third place in the research paper competition at IEOM international conference on Operations Excellence and Service Engineering at the Orlando, Florida, USA; September 10-11, 2015.

International Journals: 

1. Suman Samanta, Deepu Philip, Shankar Chakraborty, A Quick Convergent Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Solving Quadratic Assignment Problems, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 137(2019), 106070, 2019. (SCIE, ABDC – A, Impact factor: 5.431, Citation: 12)
2. Suman Samanta, Deepu Philip, Shankar Chakraborty, Bi-objective Dependent Location Quadratic Assignment Problem: Formulation and Solution using a Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 121(2018), 8-26, 2018. (SCIE, ABDC – A, Impact factor: 5.431, Citation: 20)
3. Rajesh Mukharjee, Shankar Chakraborty and Suman Samanta, “Selection of wire electrical discharge machining process parameters using non-traditional optimization algorithms”, Applied Soft Computing, 12(8), 2506-2516, 2012. (SCIE, ABDC – C, Impact factor: 6.725, Citation: 127)
4. Suman Samanta and Shankar Chakraborty, “Parametric optimization of some non-traditional machining processes using artificial bee colony algorithm”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 24(6), 946-957, 2011. (SCIE, Impact factor: 6.212, Citation: 188)

Conferences  Proceedings

1. Suman Samanta, Ajay Bansal, Devansh Kumar, Rishi Raj, Sushant Raj, Joyjeet Ghose, Improving Order Quantity of Retailers in Rural Market: A Case of BIT Haat, Proceedings of the 2nd Indian International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Warangal, Telangana, India, August 16-18, 2022
2. Suman Samanta, Deepu Philip, J Ramkumar, A Modified ABC Algorithm with Genetic and Local Search for solving QAP, Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 8-10, 2016. (Received Best Track paper award for the track Facilities Planning and Management)
3. Amandeep Singh, Deepu Philip, J. Ramkumar, Suman Samanta, Simulation analysis for sustainable manufacturing: A green roadmap, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Operations Excellence and Service Engineering Orlando, Florida, USA, September 10-11, 2015. (Received 3rd Place in Research Paper Competition)
4. Suman samanta, Deepu Philip, Rishav Deo Mall, Amandeep Singh, Two Step Facility Layout Optimization of an Indian Bus Body Manufacturing Plant Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and its Variants, In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operational Management (IEOM-2015), IEEE Xplore, March 3-5, 2015. (Received Best Track paper award for the track Facilities Planning and Management)
5. Onkar, Suman Samanta, Deepu Philip,Material Optimization and process improvement using simulation for makeshift auto chassis manufacturing of an Indian SME, , In Proceedings of 5^th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operational Management (IEOM-2015), IEEE Xplore, March 3-5, 2015.
6. Suman Samanta, Onkar, and Deepu Philip, “Facility Layout Optimization of an Indian SME Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, In Proc. of Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Manufacturing Engineering (ICAEME’2014), June 9-10, 2014 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 16-22. (Citation: 2)
7. Suman Samanta and Sahnkar Chakraborty, “Optimization of wire-electrical discharge machining process parameters using artificial bee colony algorithm”, In Proc of 3rd International and 24th National Conference of All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference(AIMTDR-2010), paper no-168, 2010.
8. Suman Samanta and Shankar Chakraborty, “Parametric optimization of electrochemical discharge machining process using artificial bee colony algorithm”, In Proc. of International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME-2010), 2010.