Title: Quantum Embedding of Knowledge for Machine Reasoning

Speaker: Dr. Dinesh Garg, AI Reasoning, IBM Research, Bengaluru

Time and Date: 3:30 PM to 4.30 PM, on 28th November 2019 (Thursday)

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room (2nd Floor, IEOR Building)

Title: New Results in Distributed and Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Network Systems

Speaker: Dr. Mayank Baranwal, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Time and Date: 10 AM to 11 AM, 29th November, 2019  

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room (2nd Floor, IEOR Building)

Ms. Puja Sahu presented her work, "Optimal PAC-Bayesian Posteriors for Stochastic Classifiers and their use for Choice of SVM Regularization Parameter" at the Eleventh Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2019) held in Nagoya, Japan, from 17th to 19th November 2019. This is a joint work with Prof. N. Hemachandra. Originating in the Asia-Pacific Region, ACML aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in machine learning and related fields to share their original research findings ,new ideas and achievements.

IEOR PhD Admissions, December 2019

List of shortlisted candidates for Interview

Contact Persons –

Narayan Rangaraj (IEOR, IIT Bombay)

Santosh Noronha (Chemical Engineering and Professor-in-Charge, Tata Center for Technology and Design)

Utkarsh Verma (Research Scholar, IEOR)

Email - utkarshverma@iitb.ac.in Mob. - 7506144481

IEOR is happy to announce the appointment of Prof. K.S.Mallikarjuna Rao as Professor in the department, as of November 2019.

Prof. Rao holds a doctoral degree in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. His Research Interests include Deterministic and Stochastic control, (Differential) Game Theory, Viscosity Solutions, Markov Decision Processes, Probability and Mathematical Finance.