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Himanshu Maurya , Anubhav Bonit , Divya Jyoti Bajpai and Prakhar Paliwal attended the COMSNETS 2026 conference , dated 6th January 2026 to 10th January 2026. The conference focused on Communication System and Networks , highlighting various innovative research taking place in this field . The conference also served as a platform for networking and academic exchange, contributing positively to ongoing projects and future collaborative opportunities. 

Gurkirat Wadhwa presented her paper titled "Price Equilibria with Positive Margins in Loyal-Strategic Markets with Discrete Prices" at the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025), Rio De Janerio, Brazil. This work, coauthored with Akansh Verma (MTech passout student, IEOR), Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha, and Prof. Priyank Sinha, discusses Nash equilibria and Edgeworth cycles in a modified Bertrand duopoly. They have attached a personal picture and the CDC invitation letter to support leave form completion.
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Sachin Bodke, PhD Scholar, attended the International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI) organized by the Operations Research Society of India – Karnataka Chapter (ORSI-KA) in Madurai. The conference brought together researchers, academicians, and industry professionals working at the intersection of operations research, analytics, and decision sciences.

 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.