General

Tushar Shankar Walunj, a fifth-year M.Sc.-Ph.D. dual degree student at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), IIT Bombay, recently presented his collaborative research titled "Partition Form Cooperative Games in Two Echelon Supply Chain" at the ICORES 2024 conference held in Rome, Italy from February 24th to 26th, 2024. This work was conducted in collaboration with Gurkirat Wadhwa and Professor Veeraruna Kavitha. 

The Games at Mumbai Workshop was conducted at Victor Menezes Convection centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India spanning from Jan 21st to Jan 25th, 2024. It was organized by Prof. Urban Larsson, Prof. Mallikarjuna Rao, along with Anjali Bhagat and Prem Kant from IEOR department, IIT Bombay. This comprehensive 5-day workshop commenced with a day dedicated to game playing on Sunday, January 21st, 2024.

The 62nd Interim Convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay was held on Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 3.00 pm onwards in the Convocation Hall of the Institute. The event was live telecasted too and the recording can be found here. 

IEOR is happy to announce the appointment of Prof. Vishnu Narayanan as Professor in the department, as of February 2024. Prof.Vishnu Narayanan's Research Interests include Mathematical Programming; especially Integer Programming, Convex Optimization, and Polyhedral Theory.

Scholar: Aanchal Panwar

A workshop on System Dynamics Theory and Practice held at VMCC, IIT Bombay during 5-6 Feb 2024. It was conducted by Prof. Nikhil Bugalia (IIT Madras), Prof. Pooja Prasad (IIT Delhi), Prof. Om Damani (IIT Bombay) and Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran (IIT Bombay).
This workshop aimed at bringing together faculty, students, and professionals working in systems thinking and system dynamics to share their works, connect/reconnect with a larger community, and build a "Systems Thinking" ecosystem in India.

IEOR conducted a 10-days "GIAN Course on Advances in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization" from 15-25 January at VMCC, IIT Bombay.

TCAAI conducted workshop on Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Theme: 5G Networks on 1 Feb 2024 at VMCC, IIT Bombay.

This workshop leads to lauch of VAJRA, which is an indigenous cybersecurity tool built to manage, detect, and respond to endpoint threats. Vajra’s core strength is in its ability to gather fine-grained contextual information from the endpoints in real time and robust rules to detect malicious activities.

IEOR extends its heartfelt congratulations to Prof. Manjesh Hanawal for receiving the "Research Excellence Award" generously endowed by the Class of 1973. This award recognizes and promotes excellence in research in engineering, basic science and other disciplines at IIT Bombay.

IEOR congratulates Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan for being appointed as the first Professor Incharge of newly established IITBombay-FedEx Center for Advanced Logistics and Analytics . 
Congratulations to Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan and wishing him all the best.