General

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj started his tenure as Dean of Academic Programmes since last Friday (14/03/2014).

Recently, Prof. Narayan Rangaraj's expert view on Mumbai city's suburban system was published in DNA newspaper. Below is the link to that article in DNA e-paper.

https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-iit-b-western-railways-join-forc…

http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?pgNo=2&edcode=820009&eddate=2013-9-20

51st Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on August 10, 2013 at Convocation Hall, IIT Bombay.

Mr. Deepak Singh, M.Tech. IEOR, Class of 2013, received "Institute Silver Medal" for the year 2012-13.

The Australian Society For Operations Research (ASOR), Melbourne Chapter, organized a one day conference with the topic "Recent Advances in OR 2013" on July 17, 2013. The conference was held at RMIT Melbourne, Australia, with an aim to give members the opportunity to exchange ideas and promote growth and activity in the OR community.

ISCI (International Simulation Conference of India) is an International forum in India where recent Development in the field of System Simulation are talked about. ISCI-2013 was the second edition held from 21st to 23rd February at IITM Research Park, hosted jointly by IIT Madras, Chennai and PMI.  Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Ms. Ketki Kulkarni and Mr, Ratnaji Vanga attended the conference.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a keynote address on 'Hybrid Simulation and Optimization Approaches'.

The following is a news item published in Mumbai Mirror on Nov 1, 2012 (Mumbai Edition).

Dr. Ashutosh Mahajan has joined as Assistant Professor on 13/6/12. We welcome him and wish him all the best.

Ashutosh obtained B. Tech. in Production and Industrial Engineering from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory for three years after that. His research interests are in theory, algorithms and applications of linear and nonlinear integer optimization.

Dr. V. V. Kavitha has joined as Assistant Professor on 15/5/12. We welcome her and wish her all the best.

In her own words:

Prof N. Hemachandra conducted a session `Basics of MILPs' on 16th September, 2011, in the CEP course `Advanced Power System Analysis' for Researchers and Engineers from CDAC and Intel India. This CEP is conducted by Prof S. A. Soman, EE, at CDAC, Bangalore during 14--16, September, 2011.

Dr. D. Bijual, Ph.D in IEOR, receievd an Award for Excellence in Thesis for the year 2010-11.  The award is given to a selected set of students in the Ph.D. programme for their exemplary contributions during their Thesis work, overall academic performance and contributions during the student's tenure in the doctoral programme.  The award was presented during the 49th Convocation of IIT Bombay held on 5th August 2011.