Industrial Visit of IEOR students
IEOR student visited manufacturing unit of John Deere, Pune on 17th of October 2019. The visit was aimed at taking a closer look of application of Industrial Enginnering and Operations Research in practice. Students were able to see Simulations used for different purposes from managing the optimal funtioning of the unit to testing new designs.
IEOR students awarded ACM-W Scholarships
IEOR students, Ms. Chhavi Sharma and Ms. Vanessa Ann Beddoe Sawkmie have been awarded the highly competitive ACM-W scholarships for attendance to research conferences.
Ms. Chavvi has been awarded the scholarship to attend & present her work at the Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS) workshop on Beyond First order methods in ML to be held at Vancouver, Canada in December 2019. Ms. Vanessa has been awarded the scholarship to attend and present her work at the IEEE IEEM conference to be held at Macau in December 2019.
Workshop on Combinatorial Game Theory
Title: Combinatorial Game Theory (CGT)
Speaker: Prof. Urban Larsson, National University of Singapore
Date: 4-8 November, 2019
Timing: 2:00PM - 4:00PM on 4th November
2.30PM - 4.30PM on 5th - 8th, November
Venue: Seminar Room, IEOR Building, IIT Bombay
IEOR Seminar by Diptesh Kanojia
Title: Natural Language Processing
Date, Time: Monday, 21st October 2019, 4.00 PM - 5.30 PM
Venue: IEOR Teaching Lab (IE 011), Ground floor, IEOR Building.
Speaker: Diptesh Kanojia (Research Scholar, IITB - Monash Research Academy)
IEOR Seminar by Kaushal Jaisar and Harshal Yeole
Title: Inventory management
Speaker: Kaushal Jaisar (Assistant Manager, General Mills) and Harshal Yeole (Modelling Analyst, General Mills)
Date, Time: 15th October, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Venue: Seminar Hall, 2nd Floor, IEOR Building
IEOR Seminar by Dr. Kabir Rustogi
Title: Using OR and ML techniques together to optimise operations in
the Logistics Industry
Speaker: Dr. Kabir Rustogi
Date, Time: 10th October, 2019, 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
Venue: Seminar Hall, 2nd Floor, IEOR Building
Dusshera Celebrated at IEOR
The Festival of Dusshera was celebrated at IEOR Department with great enthusiasm. A beautiful Rangoli welcomed everyone at the entrance along with a Marigold flower Mosaic. A few more Marigolds dotted the steps leading to the Puja Desk setup on the third floor of the building. A Puja was organized by the students followed by refreshments.
SoULS Initiative wins 1st Grand Prize in the IEEE's EBL Competition
SoULS Initiative, IIT Bombay wins the 1st Grand Prize in the IEEE's Empower a Billion Lives (EBL) competition. The Finals were held from Sept 28th to Oct 1st in Baltimore, USA. The award includes a citation and a grand prize of $100,000.
Class Representatives Appointed
Elections of First Year M. Tech and M.Sc.- PhD batches were recently conducted wherein the following students have been appointed as the Class Representatives:
Class Representative of MSc-PhD(1st Year)
Name: Dipanshu Goyal
LDAP:19i190006@iitb.ac.in
Class Representative of M.Tech.(1st Year)
Name: Anupam Singh
LDAP:193190002@iitb.ac.in