"Naval Operations Analysis” (NOA) CEP course, a 16 week program, was conducted full-time from 28th Jan 2019 to 17th May 2019 for officers of the Indian Navy. The course covered basic mathematics, data analysis, applied probability and statistics, simulation, optimization, game theory and specialized topics in Naval Operations (viz., Combat models, Search and Detection). The student officers also did a month long projects. Many faculty and students contributed to this course.

The IEOR Day 2019 was conducted at Victor Menezes Convection centre (VMCC), at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India from 30th - 31st March 2019. IEOR Day 2019 was powered by McKinsey Knowledge Centre and IIT Bombay Diamond Jubilee office.  The theme was “Recent Trends in Operations Research and Management”. In this event, a total of about 160+ registrations were made which includes students, faculty members, and industry professionals.

International Workshop on Games and Networks was held on 3rd August 2019, at Lecture Complex, IIT Bombay. The workshop included talks by Prof.Kaushik Basu (Cornell University), Prof. Surajit Borkotokey (Dibrugarh University), Prof. Rajnish Kumar (Queen’s University Belfast), Jaideep Roy (University of Bath), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech), Saptarshi Ghosh (IIT Bombay), Diganta Mukherjee (ISI Kolkata), Jayakrishnan Nair (IIT Bombay), Alexandre Reiffers (IISc).

The 51st Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) and International Conference (hereafter, ORSI 2018) was conducted at Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, from 16th -19th December 2018.

ORSI-2018 was organised jointly by ORSI-Mumbai chapter and IIT Bombay, and was sponsored by Optym (Gold sponsor), JDA, Palisade, Spashta Technologies, Opex Analytics, Springer Publisher and IIT Bombay Diamond Jubilee office.

A one-day workshop on "Suburban Rail Operations Planning" was conducted on 21st June 2019 at VMCC, IIT Bombay.   The workshop was attended by Railway personnel from Central, Western, South Central, Southern, South Eastern and Eastern Railways and also Delhi and Bengaluru Metro Corporation, apart from students & faculty of IIT Bombay

The 57th Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on 10th August 2019. The main function of the convocation was held in the forenoon at the Convocation Hall, presided by Chief Guest Hon'ble Minister of Human Resource Development Shri. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'.  

IEOR is happy to announce the appointment of Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha and Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan as Associate Professor in the department, as of August 2019.

IEOR is happy to announce the appointment of Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran as Professor in the department, as of August 2019.