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March 16-17, 2026:<\/strong> FedEx ALFA supported the Port Landside Planning, Operations, and Logistics Workshop<\/a>, held at IIT Bombay from March 16- 17.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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January 7, 2026:<\/strong> We are happy to share that Anubhav Binit<\/a>, a FedEx Fellow and M.Tech student in the IEOR Department at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, presented his research paper titled \u201cNL2SQL for Cybersecurity: Automating Osquery Threat Hunting via Natural Language Queries\u201d at the 18th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2026<\/a>), organized by the COMSNETS Association and held in Bengaluru, India.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 22\u201324, 2025:<\/strong> The three day of TechConnect Research Exhibition held at IIT Bombay from 22 to 24 December saw consistent engagement and curiosity around the work showcased at the IITB FedEx ALFA Center stall.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 17\u201320, 2025: <\/strong>We are happy to share that Deepanshu Soni<\/a>, a FedEx Fellow and PhD student in the Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, presented his research paper titled \u201cGenetic Algorithm-based Optimization of Parking Utilization: Alleviating Queue Spillover Congestion to a National Highway\u201d at the 8th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG 2025<\/a>), held at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 14\u201319, 2025: <\/strong>Angshuman Baruah, a FedEx Fellow and PhD student in the Civil Engineering Department at IIT Bombay, participated in the IIT Bombay\u2013Tohoku University Global Immersion Program (TI-GIP) 2025 at Tohoku University, Japan, held from 14\u201319 December 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 15, 2025:<\/strong> Virtual session by Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan and Debanjan Gangopadhyay (FedEx PhD Fellow) on Network Design for Mid-Mile Logistics at the Online STTP on Applications of Operations Research and Data Analytics in Transportation and Logistics (ODTL 2025), hosted by NIT Calicut.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 2-7, 2025:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> The work titled “Regret Lower Bounds for Decentralized Multi-Agent Stochastic Shortest Path Problems,” by Utkarsh Chavan, Prasant Trivedi, and Prof. N. Hemachandra, was presented at NeurIPS 2025<\/a> in San Diego, USA, with support from the IIT Bombay-FedEx ALFA Center.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October 11-12, 2025:<\/strong><\/strong> FedEx ALFA supported the Digital Twin Modeling Workshop<\/a>, held at IIT Bombay from October 11-12.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October 10, 2025:<\/strong> Visit by project teams to FedEx warehouse, New Delhi to explore automation, efficiency, and best practices .<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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August 11, 2025:<\/strong> We had the honor of hosting Prof. Rahul Mangharam<\/a> from the University of Pennsylvania, sharing his valuable insights on RetroLift: Low-Cost Infrastructure-Assisted Autonomy for Forklifts. The session highlighted innovative, cost-effective solutions to improve safety, flexibility, and efficiency in warehouse automation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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June 16, 2025:<\/strong> FedEx ALFA supported the Large-Scale Optimization<\/strong> Summer School 2025<\/a>, held at IIT Bombay from June 16\u201321.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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June 4, 2025:<\/strong> We are happy to share the news of the formal inauguration of the interim space of the IIT Bombay\u2013FedEx ALFA, Center for Advanced Logistics and Focused Analytics<\/strong>, in collaboration with FedEx<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 22-23, 2025:<\/strong> We’re happy to share that Aaditi Kumari, a FedEx Fellow and PhD student in the Civil Engineering Department at IIT Bombay, recently presented her research paper titled “A Survey on Sensors Technology Used for Traffic Monitoring and Safety” at the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations and Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computing (RITEEC 2025), hosted by NIT Patna.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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April 16, 2025:<\/strong> FedEx Fellows from IIT Bombay visited the Mumbai Airport facilities to understand FedEx’s operations and challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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April 7, 2025:<\/strong>The notification for four PhD Research Assistantship (RA) positions at the FedEx ALFA Center is now available.
For more details Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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March 7, 2025:<\/strong> A team from IIT Bombay, including faculty members and FedEx ALFA Fellows, visited the FedEx Mumbai warehouse to understand its operations and discuss the associated challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February 2, 2025:<\/strong> Eureka! 2024.
Hearty congratulations and best wishes to the winners of Eureka 2024 Logistics & Supply Chain Management Track!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MechQuick \u2013 Winner
MandiBhai \u2013 Runner-up<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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January 2, 2025:<\/strong> IIT Bombay-FedEx ALFA Fellows 2025.
Hearty congratulations and best wishes to the 2nd batch of FedEx Fellows at IIT Bombay-FedEx Center for Advanced Logistics and Focused Analytics (FedEx ALFA).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October 28, 2024:<\/strong> IIT Bombay FedEx ALFA Center and E-Cell IIT Bombay launch the Logistics & Supply Chain Track at Eureka! 2024 to foster sector innovation.
For more details Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October 8, 2024:<\/strong> The notification for two PhD Research Assistantship (RA) positions at the FedEx ALFA Center is now available.
For more details Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October 7, 2024:<\/strong> IIT Bombay faculty and FedEx Fellows visited the FedEx warehouse in Mumbai to understand operations and discuss challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October 4, 2024:<\/strong> FedEx Fellows from IIT Bombay visited the Mumbai Airport facilities to understand FedEx’s operations and challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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August 28, 2024:<\/strong> The first batch of FedEx-fellows, including current PhD and MTech students, officially joined the Center.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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July, 2024:<\/strong> Fellowships for new PhD and M.Tech students joining IIT Bombay in July 2024 semester have been offered.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 08, 2024:<\/strong> Faculty members from IIT Bombay visited the FedEx facilities at the Delhi Airport. Several research ideas, business challenges were discussed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 2023:<\/strong> IIT Bombay-FedEx collaboration is announced.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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