General

Prof. Manjesh Hanawal from IEOR presented 2 papers at WiOpt 2023, the first one titled " Continuous Time Bandits With Sampling Costs" with Rahul Vaze and the second paper titled “ICQ: A Quantization Scheme for Best-Arm Identification Over Bit-Constrained Channels” authored by Fathima Zarin Faizal, Adway Girish, Manjesh K Hanawal and Nikhil Karamchandani.

IEOR students council organized Teacher's Day event on 5th September 2023. It was attended by faculty members, staff, and students. The event commenced with Guru Vandana by 2 PhD scholars Simran Lakhani and Riya Sultana. Further, a first year student narrated a beautiful poem on importance of teachers in one's life. It was an honour to present Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2023 to Prof. Narayan Rangaraj which is awarded by the Institute based on student feedback across multiple courses over the past five years.

Title: AI in Supply Chain

Speaker:  Dr. Akansha Kumar, Chief Data Scientist, Jio

Day, Date, and Time: Friday, 1st September, 2023,9:30am - 10:45am

Venue:  CL 111 ESE (Energy Science Building, 1st floor)

IEOR Department Convocation for the class of 2023  took place on August 19th, 2023, at VMCC 21. The event was graced by Chief Guest Prof. Sandeep Juneja from TIFR.
Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Head of the Department of IEOR, extended a warm welcome to esteemed guests, students, and their families. He presented the departmental report, which was followed by an introduction of the graduating cohort along with their remarkable achievements.

IEOR congratulates Prof. Narayan Rangaraj for recieving the Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2023. This is awarded by the Institute based on student feedback across multiple courses over the past five years. Prof. Narayan Rangaraj has been teaching several courses in IEOR, including Operations Analysis, Financial Engineering, Service and Infrastructure Systems and others.

Dr. Urban Larsson has joined IEOR as a full-time Associate Professor (Contract) starting from 30th March 2023.

Rishav Deval, a Senior research scholar student at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his work (as a virtual poster) titled "Emission-based Production and Inventory Control System and Carbon Market: Moving towards integrated framework", a paper co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran in 41st International System Dynamics Conference 2023 at Chicago, USA from 23 -27 July 2023. 
 

Department orientation for the class of 2023 in M.Tech, MSc, and PhD courses was conducted by IEOR Students Association (IEORSA) on 28 July 2023 in room LC101. This event marked the beginning of the academic journey for the new entrants where IEOR faculties shared the welcome message and tips to excel in the academic environment. A few rounds of general questions about the student's hobbies, talents and interests made everyone speak and interact followed by a brief description of various clubs and societies in the institute.