Seminar

Utkarsh Verma defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Analysis of Kidney Exchange Programs and Deceased Donor Allocation Mechanisms" on 23 July, 2021. The external examiner for the defence was Prof Nomesh Bolia from IIT Delhi. With this, Utkarsh completes the requirements for his dual degree M.Sc.-Ph.d. from IEOR at IIT Bombay. He is currently with Micron Technology India.

As part of his Ph.D. work, Utkarsh worked with Apex Kidney Care and Dr V.Billa and Dr. U. Deepa and also the research group of Dr Piter Biro in Hungar

Prashant Palkar defended his PhD thesis on Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization on July 20, 2021. Prashant had obtained his MTech, also from IEOR, IIT Bombay earlier in 2007. After that he worked in industry before coming back for his PhD. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Augsburg University. Prof Sachin Jayaswal from IIM Ahmedabad was the external examiner in his defence.

Meenarli Sharma defended her Ph.D. thesis on convex mixed-integer nonlinear optimization and related problems. Meenarli had earlier completed her MTech in 2010 from IEOR. After brief stints in industry she had returned to IEOR for her PhD. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Augsburg University, Germany.

Tejas Ghorpade defended her Ph.D. thesis on 15 June, 2021.  She is the first M.Tech+Ph.D. degree recipient from IEOR, converting from her M.Tech degree to go on to a Ph.D.  She joined IEOR, IIT Bombay after a Bachelor's degree from College of Engineering, Pune.  Tejas is now with Delhivery.

The external examiner for her defence was Prof Debjit Roy from IIM Ahmedabad.

Title of the talk: Production Planning for the Manufacturing Industry by Application of Mathematical Modeling

Speaker: Dr. Sivasundari.

Day, Date and Time: Thursday, April 15, 2021 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 11:30 am | 1 hour | (UTC+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Title : Designing a Reliable and Sustainable Supply Chain Network

Speaker: Dr. Mayank Verma, Indian Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.

Day, Date and Time: Monday, Feb 22, 2021 11:45 am to 12:45 pm.

Title of the talk: Mentorship and protégé success in STEM fields

Speaker: Dr. Satyam Mukherjee, Faculty member, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur.

Day, Date and Time: Thursday, Feb 11, 2021 11:45 am to 12:45 pm.

Abstract of the talk: 

IEOR extends heartiest congradulation to Ravi Kant Rai on successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis on Bidding Games and Efficient Play.

Title: Optimization of Inter-woven Problems

Speaker: Dr. Suman Samanta, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.

Date : 23rd November 2020

Time: 4 PM