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Simran Lakhani, a PhD scholar of IEOR, presented her research work "Offline Appointment Scheduling of Patients for a Scanning Facility Under High Demand", supervised by Prof Ashutosh Mahajan, at the 51st Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS 2025) conference held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway from 05th July to 11th July 2025. The talk discussed the appointment scheduling challenges for a high-demand hospital scanning facility.

Gurkirat Wadhwa, a PhD Student, have attended 23rd European Control Conference 2025 (ECC) in Thessaloniki, Greece. She presented her work coauthored with Prof Veeraruna Kavitha titled ' What should the encroaching supplier with loyal market base do: A Stackelberg Game Approach '.

Dr. Kousik Das,  Postdoctoral fellow in the IEOR Department, have attended the EURO 2025 (34th European Conference on Operational Research) held at University of Leeds, United Kingdom from 22nd to 25th June, 2025.

"Nitish Kumar Dumoliya, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his research work "An Efficient Design of Water Distribution Networks: An Approximation and a Heuristic",  co-authored with Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan at the 22nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2025) held at University of Southampton, United Kingdom. The dates for the conference were 27 June 2025 to 02 July 2025.

Santosh Palaskar, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented the paper "PatchLinear: Patching Based Linear Model for General Time Series Analysis", co-authored with Prof. Nandyala Hemachandra and Prof. Narayan Rangaraj at ISF 2025. The conference was held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China, from June 29 to July 2, 2025.

Sanket Mishra, a research scholar at Department of IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his work titled "Cash Flow Dynamics in Supply Chains: Addressing Cash-Out Risks through Trade Credit and Reserve Cash Strategies" at European Conference on Operational Research (EURO) conference in the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. This work was done with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran. The conference dates were 22-25 June 2025.

Dr. Arnab Babak, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of IEOR, presented his research at several prestigious academic events in 2023 and 2024.

1. Lectures on Probability and Stochastic Processes XVI, ICTS Bangalore, November 2023.

Dr. Divya Murali, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of IEOR, presented talks at multiple esteemed academic events in 2024.

Savad KP, a PhD student from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), participated in the International Conference on Operations Research and Decision Science (ICORDS 2025), held at the MAHE, Manipal, India, from June 5-7, 2025. The conference was in honour of Prof. TES Raghavan. Prof. N Hemachandra gave an invited talk on an ongoing work with me on the topic 'Solutions from efficient sets of multi-objective problems and efficient policies of some MDPs'.

Hritiz Gogoi and Hrishikesh V attended the workshop on Geometry, Probability, and Algorithms held at ICTS, TIFR, Bengaluru. The event brought together researchers working on problems at the intersection of geometric, probabilistic, and algorithmic methods. The workshop featured tutorials on diverse topics, including local stationarity in Markov chains, streaming algorithms, and spectral refutations with applications to algorithms and combinatorics.