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"Nitish Kumar Dumoliya, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his research work "An Efficient Design of Water Distribution Networks: An Approximation and a Heuristic",  co-authored with Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan at the 22nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2025) held at University of Southampton, United Kingdom. The dates for the conference were 27 June 2025 to 02 July 2025.

Santosh Palaskar, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented the paper "PatchLinear: Patching Based Linear Model for General Time Series Analysis", co-authored with Prof. Nandyala Hemachandra and Prof. Narayan Rangaraj at ISF 2025. The conference was held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China, from June 29 to July 2, 2025.

Sanket Mishra, a research scholar at Department of IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his work titled "Cash Flow Dynamics in Supply Chains: Addressing Cash-Out Risks through Trade Credit and Reserve Cash Strategies" at European Conference on Operational Research (EURO) conference in the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. This work was done with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran. The conference dates were 22-25 June 2025.

Dr. Arnab Babak, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of IEOR, presented his research at several prestigious academic events in 2023 and 2024.

1. Lectures on Probability and Stochastic Processes XVI, ICTS Bangalore, November 2023.

Dr. Divya Murali, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of IEOR, presented talks at multiple esteemed academic events in 2024.

Savad KP, a PhD student from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), participated in the International Conference on Operations Research and Decision Science (ICORDS 2025), held at the MAHE, Manipal, India, from June 5-7, 2025. The conference was in honour of Prof. TES Raghavan. Prof. N Hemachandra gave an invited talk on an ongoing work with me on the topic 'Solutions from efficient sets of multi-objective problems and efficient policies of some MDPs'.

Hritiz Gogoi and Hrishikesh V attended the workshop on Geometry, Probability, and Algorithms held at ICTS, TIFR, Bengaluru. The event brought together researchers working on problems at the intersection of geometric, probabilistic, and algorithmic methods. The workshop featured tutorials on diverse topics, including local stationarity in Markov chains, streaming algorithms, and spectral refutations with applications to algorithms and combinatorics.

Avi Roy Chowdhury recently presented paper titled "HIERARCHICAL HYBRID SIMULATION MODELING OF BACTERIAL DISEASE INFECTION", (co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, and Om Damani), at the 12th Simulation Workshop 2025, held at the Mercure Rougemont Hotel, Exeter, UK, from 31 March to 2 April 2025.

Avi Roy Chowdhury attended the conference along with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran (member in panel discussion).

IEOR had a strong presence at the industry event organized by Gurobi in Benagluru (April 9-10, 2025).  At least twenty IEOR alumni were at the event (see photos on Day 1 and Day 2) and Ashutosh Mahajan from IEOR was an invited speaker (he spoke on nonlinear optimization models in design of water networks - ongoing work with Ph.D. student Nitish Dumoliya).  Narayan Rangaraj participated in a panel discussion on the second day.

Riya Sultana was invited for presenting her work in Annual PMRF Symposium 2025. She has presented a poster titled: 'Cooperate or Compete: Coalition formation in Congestion Games' at PMRF Symposium at IIT Hyderabad. The symposium was held on 16-17 march 2025