Sachin Bodke, a PhD student in IEOR, successfully completed a summer internship with Apex Kidney Care in Chembur, Mumbai from May 15, 2024, to July 15, 2024. During this period, Sachin gained valuable insights into kidney health and dialysis treatments.
Sachin's internship involved significant projects, including:
1. The burden of depression amongst patients receiving hemodialysis at public and private dialysis centers and the factors contributing to it.

IEOR welcomes Dr Sudeep Singh Sanga to IEOR as a visiting scientist under the INSA scheme. He will be here in this month of July 2024.  He is a faculty in the Department of Mathematics, NIT Surat; works in the area of Queueing Theory, and will be collaborating with Prof. N. Hemachandra in this visit. 

Kritika Karwasra, a current PhD student in IEOR, presented her research work, supervised by Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, at the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research 2024, held at DTU - the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, from 30th June to 3rd July. This study focused on optimizing the use of in-house and outsourced vehicles in supply chains, a critical aspect of the expanding supply chain networks.

IEOR had a strong presence at EURO OR 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark from June 30, 2024 to July 3, 2024.  Ph.D. student Kritika Karwasra presented "Optimal use of in-house and outsourced vehicles", based on her Ph.D. work.  Prof V. Kavitha presented "Algorithms to solve Risk Sensitive MDPs, Games and Applications", based on work with her Ph.D. students Vartika Singh and Tushar Walunj.

Raghupati Vyas a research fellow of IEOR IIT Bombay participated in the 4th annual IISc-CNI Summer School 2024 on "Algorithmic Structures for Emerging Wireless Networks and Statistical Inference in Large Dimensional Spaces," led by Professor Jean-Francois Chamberland from Texas A&M University at College Station.

Sanket Mishra, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay presented a