General

 Bhavya Gupta, a student from the department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research presented her research paper titled “System Dynamics Modeling Approach for Quantifying Supply Chain Resilience under Disruptions” at the XXVIII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2025), hosted by IIM Nagpur from December 19–21, 2025.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran organized an industrial visit on November 22, 2025, to the Mahindra & Mahindra Chakan Plant in Pune. He was accompanied by Prof. Saurabh Jain, institute staffs, and a group of Master's and PhD students.

The visit provided deep insights into modern production technologies and the specialized assembly line processes for Mahindra's latest Electric Vehicles (EVs). Students observed the integration of Industry 4.0 standards, including AI-driven quality checks and the automated battery assembly facility.

T Karthik Rajendran, an MSc-PhD student from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), attended the Lectures on Probability and Stochastic Processes XVII at IIT Madras from 8 December 2025 to 12 December 2025. 

It featured mini-courses by

1. Nathan Ross (School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne)
2. Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee (Statistics and Mathematics Unit at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

IEOR PhD student Madhu Dhiman presented two papers at the 2025 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The conference commenced with workshop on 9 December 2025, followed by the main conference from 10–12 December 2025.

The first paper, “Constrained Average-Reward Intermittently Observable MDPs,” was co-authored with Konstantin Avrachenkov and Veeraruna Kavitha.
The second paper, “Punitive Policies to Combat Misreporting in Dynamic Supply Chains,” was co-authored with Atul Maurya, Veeraruna Kavitha, and Priyank Sinha.

Divya Jyoti Bajpai, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented papers "Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability",  co-authored with Prof. Manjesh Kumar Hanawal at The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, San Diego, California, United States. The dates for the conference were 02 December 2025 to 07 December 2025. The Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS) conference is one of the top three high-impact conferences in machine learning and artificial intelligence research.

Bheeshm Sharma, a PhD student at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his paper titled RASALoRE: Region-Aware Spatial Attention with Location-based Random Embeddings for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI Scans at the 36th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2025. The conference was held from November 24th to 27th, 2025, at Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, UK. The paper was co-authored by Karthikeyan Jaganathan and Balamurugan Palaniappan.

Students of B.Tech (2nd Year) in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, accompanied by Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and teaching assistants Advitiya Mishra, Ayush Gupta, Risha Podder, and Akshat, visited the Mahindra & Mahindra Automotive Plant in Nashik on 1st November, 2025. The visit offered valuable exposure to large-scale automobile manufacturing processes, including the TCF and XUV assembly lines.

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), IIT Bombay organized a field visit to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) for the first-year B.Tech students on 5th November 2025.

Prior to the visit, students were introduced in class to the fundamentals of port and ship scheduling, providing them with a theoretical foundation to better appreciate the practical aspects of port operations.

Divya Jyoti Bajpai, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented papers "Know What You Don't Know: Selective Prediction for EEDNNs",  co-authored with Prof. Manjesh Kumar Hanawal at The Fifth International Conference on AIMLSystems held in Bengaluru, India. The dates for the conference were 07 October 2025 to 11 October 2025. AIMLSystems targets the research in the intersection of Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques.

 

Bheeshm Sharma, a PhD student at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his paper titled IsoSignVid2Aud: Sign Language Video to Audio Conversion without Text Intermediaries at the 5th International Conference on AI-ML Systems 2025. The conference was held from October 7th to 11th, 2025, at the Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore, India. The paper was co-authored by Harsh Kavediya, Vighnesh Nayak, and P. Balamurugan.