General

Dr. V. V. Kavitha has joined as Assistant Professor on 15/5/12. We welcome her and wish her all the best.

In her own words:

Prof N. Hemachandra conducted a session `Basics of MILPs' on 16th September, 2011, in the CEP course `Advanced Power System Analysis' for Researchers and Engineers from CDAC and Intel India. This CEP is conducted by Prof S. A. Soman, EE, at CDAC, Bangalore during 14--16, September, 2011.

Dr. D. Bijual, Ph.D in IEOR, receievd an Award for Excellence in Thesis for the year 2010-11.  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.  The award was presented during the 49th Convocation of IIT Bombay held on 5th August 2011.

Ms. Violet Bhattacharya, M.Tech IEOR, received the Institute Silver Medal for the year 2010-11.  The Silver medal was awarded to her for standing first in her M.Tech class by obtaining the highest CPI.   The award was presented during the 49th Convocation held on 5th August 2011.   Violet's Master's thesis was on "The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem - Recent Developments and Analysis of Effects of Parameters", under the guidance of Prof. P.G. Awate.

D.Bijulal defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Stability and Service Level based Control of Some Forward and Reverse Flow Production - Inventory Systems" on 30 June, 2011. The external examiner for the defence was Prof.Pratap.K.J Mohapatra from IIT Kharagpur. Bijulal is working as an associate professor in College of Engineering Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram.

Anu Thomas, Research Scholar won the Oskar Award for the Best Poster at The Annual Symposium of The IITB-Monash Research Academy held at IIT Bombay campus from Feb 17-19, 2011. His poster was based on " Collaborative Resource Constrained Scheduling : A Coal Indutry Example ".

Dr. N.Hemachandra appointed as Professor in Industrial Engineering and
Operations Research with effect from 21 January 2011.

Prof N. Hemachandra (IEOR) has been appointed as Convenor of IEOR in October 2010 and has taken over 
from Prof Narayan Rangaraj (IEOR) on 24 January 2011.

Students of IEOR participated in the TechConnect Exhibition (January 7-9, 2011) as part of TechFesh at IIT Bombay and creatively displayed the extent of problems under the gamut of IEOR. The exhibition had displays of simulated models and agent based simulation theme, interesting puzzles like Sudoku solver, fun representation of  concepts like Markov Chains, applications of IEOR in varied areas such as railway operations, game  theory and so on.

Dileep More received the award for Excellence in Thesis Work. The award was distributed on 06th August 2010 in the  48th
Convocation. The award includes a Certificate/Citation and Rs 20,000/-. He joined in IIM Calcutta as an assistant professor after completing PhD from IEOR in 2009.