IEOR PhD student Madhu Dhiman presented two papers at the 2025 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The conference commenced with workshop on 9 December 2025, followed by the main conference from 10–12 December 2025.

The first paper, “Constrained Average-Reward Intermittently Observable MDPs,” was co-authored with Konstantin Avrachenkov and Veeraruna Kavitha.
The second paper, “Punitive Policies to Combat Misreporting in Dynamic Supply Chains,” was co-authored with Atul Maurya, Veeraruna Kavitha, and Priyank Sinha.

Simran Lakhani, a PhD scholar of IEOR, presented her work titled "Location Analysis and Optimization of Customer Service Points" (co-authored with Prof Ashutosh Mahajan and the SBI team), at the 5th International Conference on Nonlinear Applied Analysis and Optimization (ICNAAO 2025) held at IIT Jodhpur from 5th Dec to 7th Dec 2025. The talk introduced the concept of CSPs and their role in improving banking access in unbanked and untapped areas. CSPs also offload low-value transactions from the branch staff.

Divya Jyoti Bajpai, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented papers "Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability",  co-authored with Prof. Manjesh Kumar Hanawal at The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, San Diego, California, United States. The dates for the conference were 02 December 2025 to 07 December 2025. The Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS) conference is one of the top three high-impact conferences in machine learning and artificial intelligence research.

Bheeshm Sharma, a PhD student at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his paper titled RASALoRE: Region-Aware Spatial Attention with Location-based Random Embeddings for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI Scans at the 36th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2025. The conference was held from November 24th to 27th, 2025, at Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, UK. The paper was co-authored by Karthikeyan Jaganathan and Balamurugan Palaniappan.

Students of B.Tech (2nd Year) in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, accompanied by Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and teaching assistants Advitiya Mishra, Ayush Gupta, Risha Podder, and Akshat, visited the Mahindra & Mahindra Automotive Plant in Nashik on 1st November, 2025. The visit offered valuable exposure to large-scale automobile manufacturing processes, including the TCF and XUV assembly lines.