General

The 52nd Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on 9 August, 2014. IEOR Ph.D. student Vikas Vikram Singh received "Excellence in Thesis" award for his dissertation "Some topics in Stochastic Games". The award is given to a selected set of students in the Ph.D. programme for their exemplary contributions during their thesis work, overall academic performance and contributions during the student's tenure in the doctoral programme. 

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj and Vishal Rewari made a presentation on April 9, 2014, at the workshop on Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective. This workshop was organized by Transportation Systems Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay and VREF Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Vikas Vikram Singh, a recent PhD student at IEOR, presented his PhD work in MAESTRO retreat. Click here for more details.

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj started his tenure as Dean of Academic Programmes since last Friday (14/03/2014).

Recently, Prof. Narayan Rangaraj's expert view on Mumbai city's suburban system was published in DNA newspaper. Below is the link to that article in DNA e-paper.

https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-iit-b-western-railways-join-forc…

http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?pgNo=2&edcode=820009&eddate=2013-9-20

51st Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on August 10, 2013 at Convocation Hall, IIT Bombay.

Mr. Deepak Singh, M.Tech. IEOR, Class of 2013, received "Institute Silver Medal" for the year 2012-13.

The Australian Society For Operations Research (ASOR), Melbourne Chapter, organized a one day conference with the topic "Recent Advances in OR 2013" on July 17, 2013. The conference was held at RMIT Melbourne, Australia, with an aim to give members the opportunity to exchange ideas and promote growth and activity in the OR community.

ISCI (International Simulation Conference of India) is an International forum in India where recent Development in the field of System Simulation are talked about. ISCI-2013 was the second edition held from 21st to 23rd February at IITM Research Park, hosted jointly by IIT Madras, Chennai and PMI.  Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Ms. Ketki Kulkarni and Mr, Ratnaji Vanga attended the conference.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a keynote address on 'Hybrid Simulation and Optimization Approaches'.

The following is a news item published in Mumbai Mirror on Nov 1, 2012 (Mumbai Edition).

Dr. Ashutosh Mahajan has joined as Assistant Professor on 13/6/12. We welcome him and wish him all the best.

Ashutosh obtained B. Tech. in Production and Industrial Engineering from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory for three years after that. His research interests are in theory, algorithms and applications of linear and nonlinear integer optimization.