Title: How big is big data for AXA

Speaker: Philippe Marie-Jeanne, Data Innovation Lab, AXA

Time: 5:30pm, Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016

Venue: IC 2, SOM Building

Title: An Analysis of Multi-Issue Final-Offer Arbitration

Speaker: Brian Powers, University of Illinois at Chicago

Time: 2:00 pm, Monday February 1

Venue: Classroom LC 301

Dr. Manjesh Hanawal has joined IEOR family as an Assistant Professor on new year's day of 2016. He received a Ph.D. from INRIA and University of Avignon and M.Sc. (Engg.) from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Before joining us he was a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Communication Networks, Machine Learning, and Network Economics. He is currently developing learning-algorithms that use data efficiently.

We wish Prof. Hanawal all the best.

IEOR students and faculty members participated in Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, The Third International Conference, MIKE 2015, http://www.mike.org.in/2015/ at IIIT Hyderabad duing Dec 9-11, 2015.

Puja Sahu, a Research Scholar, presented a paper `A Geometric Viewpoint of the Selection of the Regularization Parameter in some Support Vector Machines' co-authored with Prof N. Hemachandra.

Alok Patel, a research scholar, presented a poster on "Optimal Signal Control for Pre-timed Signalized Junctions with Uncertain Traffic: Simulation based Optimization Approach", a joint work with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and Prof. Tom V. Mathew in the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2015, Dec. 6-9, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa, Huntington Beach, California, USA.

Prof. Jayendran attended the 48th International Conference & Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) organized at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on December 17-19, 2015.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper on "Operations Experience in Large Scale Dissemination of 
Technology Solutions in Rural India", a joint work with Prof. Chetan S. Solanki (ESE) and Prof. N.C. Narayanan (CTARA)