Mr. Prashant Trivedi worked as a research intern at IBM Bangalore from May 2020 to August 2020 on the topic "Data Valuation in Federated Setting".

Ms. Meenarli Sharma attended the JPOC 12 Spring School on MINLPs and Bilevel problems, 22-23 June 2021.

Mr. Akash Saha participated in the LinkedIn-MSR-IISc Workshop on "Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Machine Learning" at IISc Bangalore, during 9-10 January, 2020.

Mr. Akash Saha attended the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) program on "Statistical Physics of Machine Learning" held in ICTS, Bangalore during 6 -10 January 2020.

Mr. Prashant Palkar gave an invited talk in the session TC-42: Decomposition Algorithms for MINLPs, in the stream Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization in EURO 2021, Athens, Greece (Virtual mode) July 13, 2021.

Mr. Arun Verma gave an invited talk on "Sequential Decision Problems with Weak Feedback," as part of the Multi-Armed Bandits (CS6046) course at IIT Madras on May 4, 2021.

Mr. Swapnesh S. gave an invited talk for the Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management (IRITM) Lucknow on 24th March 2021 on the topic "Operation Research applications in Passenger Railway Transportation"

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj and Dr. Anoop K P gave an invited talk on “Integrated planning of freight operations with crew change in a mixed rail network” in the webinar “Advances in Transportation Sector: Techno-management Challenges” organized by National Rail and Transportation Institute, Vadodara on December 26, 2020.

Mr. Arun Verma gave the RIKEN Seminar on "Sequential Decision Problems with Weak Feedback," at RIKEN AIP, Japan on November 27, 2020.

Ms. Sandhya Tripathi presented a paper (with Prof. N Hemachandra and Prashant Trivedi) titled "Interetable feature subset selection: A Shapley value-based approach" in the IEEE 2020 International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), held (virtually) at Atlanta, GA, USA.