General

Ms. Puja Sahu presented her work, "Optimal PAC-Bayesian Posteriors for Stochastic Classifiers and their use for Choice of SVM Regularization Parameter" at the Eleventh Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2019) held in Nagoya, Japan, from 17th to 19th November 2019. This is a joint work with Prof. N. Hemachandra. Originating in the Asia-Pacific Region, ACML aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in machine learning and related fields to share their original research findings ,new ideas and achievements.

IEOR PhD Admissions, December 2019

List of shortlisted candidates for Interview

IEOR is happy to announce the appointment of Prof. K.S.Mallikarjuna Rao as Professor in the department, as of November 2019.

Prof. Rao holds a doctoral degree in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. His Research Interests include Deterministic and Stochastic control, (Differential) Game Theory, Viscosity Solutions, Markov Decision Processes, Probability and Mathematical Finance.

IEOR students, Ms. Chhavi Sharma and Ms. Vanessa Ann Beddoe Sawkmie have been awarded the highly competitive ACM-W scholarships for attendance to research conferences.  
Ms. Chavvi has been awarded the scholarship to attend & present her work at the Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS) workshop on Beyond First order methods in ML to be held at Vancouver, Canada in December 2019.  Ms. Vanessa has been awarded the scholarship to attend and present her work at the IEEE IEEM conference to be held at Macau in December 2019.

The Freshers Welcome Party was organised by the second year students on the 31st of August. The fun filled gathering started with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Head IEOR Department, addressing the newcomers followed by addresses by faculty members Prof. N. Hemachandra and Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan. There were short games to break the ice. A leisurely photoshoot and pizzas marked the conclusion of this ceremony.