General

The 61st Interim Convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay was held on Saturday, February 25, 2023, from 3.00 pm onwards in the Convocation Hall of the Institute. The event was live telecasted too and the recording can be found here. 

Madhu Dhiman, the research scholar at IEOR, attended the conference on Innovations in Nonlinear Control held at VMCC, IIT Bombay from 13-17th February 2023. 

K Geetha Bhargavi (MTech student, IEOR, IIT Bombay) attended Data Science Workshop (DSW) with Unilever 2023 held from 31 January to 2 February 2023 at Bengaluru. She was invited to present her MTech thesis work being carried out with the company collaboration in the workshop, on the topic Direct Dispatch Opportunity Prediction and Order Fulfillment models in the Supply Chain Optimization area with the guidance of Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, IEOR IIT Bombay.
 

Prem Kant (Research Scholar, IEOR, IIT Bombay) presented a paper titled CONSTRUCTIVE COMPARISON IN BIDDING COMBINATORIAL GAMES co-authored with Prof. Urban Larsson, Ravi K. Rai, and Akshay V. Upasany at the Combinatorial Game Theory Colloquium IV(CGTC4). He has also attended the Recreational Mathematics Colloquium VII(RMC7). Both conferences took place in Expo lab, S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal, from January, 23-25 and January 26-29, 2023 respectively.

Akash Saha (Research Scholar, IEOR, IIT Bombay) attended Research Week with Google 2023 held during 29-31 January 2023 at Bengaluru. He was selected to attend the Machine Learning Foundations track.

Title: Bi-Objective Reliability Based Design Optimization: Applications in Portfolio Investment Analysis

Speaker: Raghu Nandan Sengupta, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Day, Date, and Time: Thursday 19, January, 2:00 pm

Venue: LA 001, Lecture Hall Complex.

Debamita Ghosh presented a paper titled Fixed Budget Beam Identification in Millimeter Wave Systems via Unimodal Bandits, co-authored with Prof. Manjesh Kr. Hanawal, at the 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworks (COMSNETS) held from 3-8 Jan 2023 Graduate Forum in Bangalore, India. She received the award of Best Graduate Forum Presentation-Runner Up.

IEOR department is very happy to announce that one of its research scholars has been awarded the prestigious PMRF fellowship. Mr. Divya Jyoti Bajpai has been found worthy of the honor of PMRF. 

Sachin Yadav Bodke, a research scholar from IEOR, attended the lectures on Statistical Techniques for Research Methodology (STRM) at the workshop organized by the “Indian Statistical Institute, SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai” from Dec. 13 to Dec. 17, 2022. It was an online workshop, and the experienced faculty at Indian Statistical Institute taught the following topics;