General

Divya Jyoti Bajpai, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented papers "Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability",  co-authored with Prof. Manjesh Kumar Hanawal at The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, San Diego, California, United States. The dates for the conference were 02 December 2025 to 07 December 2025. The Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS) conference is one of the top three high-impact conferences in machine learning and artificial intelligence research.

Bheeshm Sharma, a PhD student at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his paper titled RASALoRE: Region-Aware Spatial Attention with Location-based Random Embeddings for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI Scans at the 36th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2025. The conference was held from November 24th to 27th, 2025, at Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, UK. The paper was co-authored by Karthikeyan Jaganathan and Balamurugan Palaniappan.

Students of B.Tech (2nd Year) in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, accompanied by Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and teaching assistants Advitiya Mishra, Ayush Gupta, Risha Podder, and Akshat, visited the Mahindra & Mahindra Automotive Plant in Nashik on 1st November, 2025. The visit offered valuable exposure to large-scale automobile manufacturing processes, including the TCF and XUV assembly lines.

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), IIT Bombay organized a field visit to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) for the first-year B.Tech students on 5th November 2025.

Prior to the visit, students were introduced in class to the fundamentals of port and ship scheduling, providing them with a theoretical foundation to better appreciate the practical aspects of port operations.

Divya Jyoti Bajpai, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented papers "Know What You Don't Know: Selective Prediction for EEDNNs",  co-authored with Prof. Manjesh Kumar Hanawal at The Fifth International Conference on AIMLSystems held in Bengaluru, India. The dates for the conference were 07 October 2025 to 11 October 2025. AIMLSystems targets the research in the intersection of Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques.

 

Bheeshm Sharma, a PhD student at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his paper titled IsoSignVid2Aud: Sign Language Video to Audio Conversion without Text Intermediaries at the 5th International Conference on AI-ML Systems 2025. The conference was held from October 7th to 11th, 2025, at the Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore, India. The paper was co-authored by Harsh Kavediya, Vighnesh Nayak, and P. Balamurugan.

Scholar: Rishav Deval

Title: Emission-based Production and Inventory Control System: Exploratory Modeling and Analysis

Supervisor: Prof. Jayendran V. IEOR, IIT Bombay

Date and Day: Thursday, 09-10-2025

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room

Board Of Examiners:

Scholar: Prem Kant

Title: Bidding Combinatorial Games

Dear All

The IEOR department is extremely happy to welcome Prof. Vinay Kumar Bindiganavile Ramdas, who has joined the department on this Monday 6th October 2025.

Prof. Vinay Kumar obtained his Doctorate from IISC in 2021 and has held Postdoctoral positions at INRIA Center at Universite Cote d’Azur, France and at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. 

Dear All,

IEOR is recognised by the Institute for implementing Hindi in the Department. We have been presented with an award on 30/09/2025 in an event organised by the Hindi Office at PC Saxena Auditorium. This recognition is the fruit of the efforts of Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran (Formed Head), Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan, Mr. Amlesh Kumar, Mr. Abasaheb Molavane, Mr. Pramod Pawar, Mr. Rupesh Anil Sonawane (System Administrator and RA), Mr. Siva Kumar Dogga (System Administrator and RA), Mr. Ishaan Mane (System Administrator and RA).  Congratulation to all of them.