Gurkirat Wadhwa presented her paper titled "Price Equilibria with Positive Margins in Loyal-Strategic Markets with Discrete Prices" at the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025), Rio De Janerio, Brazil. This work, coauthored with Akansh Verma (MTech passout student, IEOR), Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha, and Prof. Priyank Sinha, discusses Nash equilibria and Edgeworth cycles in a modified Bertrand duopoly. They have attached a personal picture and the CDC invitation letter to support leave form completion.
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Sachin Bodke, PhD Scholar, attended the International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI) organized by the Operations Research Society of India – Karnataka Chapter (ORSI-KA) in Madurai. The conference brought together researchers, academicians, and industry professionals working at the intersection of operations research, analytics, and decision sciences.

 Bhavya Gupta, a student from the department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research presented her research paper titled “System Dynamics Modeling Approach for Quantifying Supply Chain Resilience under Disruptions” at the XXVIII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2025), hosted by IIM Nagpur from December 19–21, 2025.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran organized an industrial visit on November 22, 2025, to the Mahindra & Mahindra Chakan Plant in Pune. He was accompanied by Prof. Saurabh Jain, institute staffs, and a group of Master's and PhD students.

The visit provided deep insights into modern production technologies and the specialized assembly line processes for Mahindra's latest Electric Vehicles (EVs). Students observed the integration of Industry 4.0 standards, including AI-driven quality checks and the automated battery assembly facility.

T Karthik Rajendran, an MSc-PhD student from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), attended the Lectures on Probability and Stochastic Processes XVII at IIT Madras from 8 December 2025 to 12 December 2025. 

It featured mini-courses by

1. Nathan Ross (School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne)
2. Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee (Statistics and Mathematics Unit at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

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.