General

Name of Research Scholar:  Ms. Vartika Singh

Thesis Title: Variants of Stochastic Games and Applications

Supervisor: Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha

Alternate Supervisor: Prof. Vishnu Narayanan

Date and Day: Thursday, November 2,2023

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room 211

Board of Examiners:

1) Prof. Madhu Belur., Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (Chairperson)

IEOR department is very happy to announce that its research scholars has been awarded the prestigious PMRF fellowship. 
Following IEOR PhD students have been awarded PMRF fellowships in the 2023 cycle:
1.Riya Sultana
2.Rahul Vaishnav
3.Bhavya Gupta

"Naval Operations Analysis” (NOA) CEP course, a 16-week program, was conducted full-time from 25th Jan 2021 to 21st May 2021 for officers of the Indian Navy. The course covered basic mathematics, data analysis, applied probability and statistics, simulation, optimization, game theory and specialized topics in Naval Operations (viz., Combat models, Search and Detection). The student officers also did a month-long project. Many faculty and students contributed to this course. 
 

"Naval Operations Analysis” (NOA) CEP course, a 16-week program, was conducted full-time from 31th Jan 2022 to 27th May 2019 for officers of the Indian Navy. The course covered basic mathematics, data analysis, applied probability and statistics, simulation, optimization, game theory and specialized topics in Naval Operations (viz., Combat models, Search and Detection). The student officers also did a month long projects. Many faculty and students contributed to this course.

Prof. Manjesh Hanawal from IEOR presented 2 papers at WiOpt 2023, the first one titled " Continuous Time Bandits With Sampling Costs" with Rahul Vaze and the second paper titled “ICQ: A Quantization Scheme for Best-Arm Identification Over Bit-Constrained Channels” authored by Fathima Zarin Faizal, Adway Girish, Manjesh K Hanawal and Nikhil Karamchandani.

IEOR students council organized Teacher's Day event on 5th September 2023. It was attended by faculty members, staff, and students. The event commenced with Guru Vandana by 2 PhD scholars Simran Lakhani and Riya Sultana. Further, a first year student narrated a beautiful poem on importance of teachers in one's life. It was an honour to present Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2023 to Prof. Narayan Rangaraj which is awarded by the Institute based on student feedback across multiple courses over the past five years.

Title: AI in Supply Chain

Speaker:  Dr. Akansha Kumar, Chief Data Scientist, Jio

Day, Date, and Time: Friday, 1st September, 2023,9:30am - 10:45am

Venue:  CL 111 ESE (Energy Science Building, 1st floor)