Title of talk: Sustainable healthcare waste management: Learnings from pandemics like COVID-19 outbreak
Speaker: Dr. Vikas Thakur, Assistant Professor, School of Management, NIT Rourkela.
Venue: IEOR Seminar Hall, Second Floor, IEOR Building.
Day and Date: Monday, August 8, 2022
Title: Social learning in multi-agent multi-armed bandits
Speaker: Prof. A. Ganesh
Title: Master Equation for Discrete-Time Stackelberg Mean Field Games
Speaker: Dr. Deepanshu Vasal, Research Scientist, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Northwestern University, USA.
Day, Date and Time: Monday, August 1, 2022, 10 AM to 11 AM.
Title: Submodular Knapsacks : A Discussion
Speaker: Prof. Avinash Bhardwaj, Dept. of Mechanical Engg, IITB.
Day, Date and Time: Monday, 4th July, 10 AM-11 AM
Venue: Seminar Room, IE 211, Second Floor, IEOR Building.
Title of talk: PRODUCTION THEORY FOR CONSTRAINED LINEAR ACTIVITY MODEL
Speaker: Prof. Somdeb Lahiri, PD Energy University, Gujarat, India.
Day, Date and Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 4 PM to 5 PM.
Topic: Changing the Game: How Data and Technology are Revolutionizing the Sports World
Speaker: Arvind Iyengar, CEO, Sports Interactive
Time and Date: 11:05 a.m., 9 March, 2022
Venue: LC 201
Abstract:
Title: Semi-Double-loop machine learning based CPS approach for predictive maintenance in manufacturing system based on machine status indications.
Speaker: Dr. Vijay Kumar Manupati, Assistant Professor, NIT Warangal.
Date and Time: Tuesday, February 1 2022, 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm
Utkarsh Verma defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Analysis of Kidney Exchange Programs and Deceased Donor Allocation Mechanisms" on 23 July, 2021. The external examiner for the defence was Prof Nomesh Bolia from IIT Delhi. With this, Utkarsh completes the requirements for his dual degree M.Sc.-Ph.d. from IEOR at IIT Bombay. He is currently with Micron Technology India.
As part of his Ph.D. work, Utkarsh worked with Apex Kidney Care and Dr V.Billa and Dr. U. Deepa and also the research group of Dr Piter Biro in Hungar
Prashant Palkar defended his PhD thesis on Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization on July 20, 2021. Prashant had obtained his MTech, also from IEOR, IIT Bombay earlier in 2007. After that he worked in industry before coming back for his PhD. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Augsburg University. Prof Sachin Jayaswal from IIM Ahmedabad was the external examiner in his defence.
Meenarli Sharma defended her Ph.D. thesis on convex mixed-integer nonlinear optimization and related problems. Meenarli had earlier completed her MTech in 2010 from IEOR. After brief stints in industry she had returned to IEOR for her PhD. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Augsburg University, Germany.
