IEOR is pleased to inform that Prof. Sriram Sankaranarayanan from IIM Ahmedabad is visiting from April 10th, 2023 to April 21st 2023.  Prof. Sankaranarayanan is an Assistant Professor at IIM Ahmedabad in the area of Production and Quantitative Methods. His research interest lies in solving game-theoretic and optimisation problems that include integer variables. In particular, he has worked on mixed-integer linear programming, complementarity problems and mixed-integer bilevel programming.

IEOR Day is celebrated every year to commemorate the department’s unique culture and share ideas and experiences with our community. This year the IEOR day was celebrated on 1st April, 2023 at the Victor Menezes Convention Center (VMCC), IIT Bombay based on the theme “Digital Transformation for Operational Excellence”. Many leading experts from industry and academia presented and discussed their ongoing work and future challenges in the event.

Title: Save for the bad times or consume as long as you have? - Worst-Case Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Problems

Speaker: Prof. Ralf Korn

Date and Time: 20 March, 2023, 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm

Venue:  Online on MS Teams, but will be broadcast in room CL109 

Title: Industrial Engineering Practices in Global Supply Chain

Speaker: Dr. Subashri Rao

Date and Time: 20th March 2023, 11:30 am-12:30 pm

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room

Bheeshm Sharma, a research scholar at IEOR shortlisted for attending the Medical Imaging Workshop at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru during 24-25 Feb. He also participated in the poster session, where he presented his work and got valuable comments and feedback from the audience and Judges. The workshop was conducted by Axis Bank Centre for Mathematics and Computing.

Rishav Deval, a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) at IEOR attends workshop on "Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Simulation Workshop" conducted by Council for Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) in collaboration with Asia Society of Policy Studies (ASPI), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and International Emission Trading Association (IETA) at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad on February 21.

Manoj Kumar, a research scholar from IEOR presented his work as a poster titled Decision Policy for Intraoperative Ultrasound Imaging for Brain Cancer at the 12th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) in Lisbon, Portugal, held from 19th to 22nd February 2023. The conference primarily focused on the methodological and practical application of operations research, with an acceptance rate of 22% and participants from 24 countries.

The 61st Interim Convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay was held on Saturday, February 25, 2023, 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.