 Deb is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University.Prior to this position, Deb held the positions of Deva Raj Endowed Chair and Gurmukh and Veena Mehta Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.Deb established the Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1997 and the Computational Optimization and Innovation (COIN) Laboratory at Michigan State University in 2013.