Dr. Manjesh Hanawal has joined IEOR family as an Assistant Professor on new year's day of 2016. He received a Ph.D. from INRIA and University of Avignon and M.Sc. (Engg.) from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Before joining us he was a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Communication Networks, Machine Learning, and Network Economics. He is currently developing learning-algorithms that use data efficiently.

We wish Prof. Hanawal all the best.

IEOR students and faculty members participated in Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, The Third International Conference, MIKE 2015, http://www.mike.org.in/2015/ at IIIT Hyderabad duing Dec 9-11, 2015.

Puja Sahu, a Research Scholar, presented a paper `A Geometric Viewpoint of the Selection of the Regularization Parameter in some Support Vector Machines' co-authored with Prof N. Hemachandra.

Alok Patel, a research scholar, presented a poster on "Optimal Signal Control for Pre-timed Signalized Junctions with Uncertain Traffic: Simulation based Optimization Approach", a joint work with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and Prof. Tom V. Mathew in the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2015, Dec. 6-9, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa, Huntington Beach, California, USA.

Prof. Jayendran attended the 48th International Conference & Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) organized at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on December 17-19, 2015.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper on "Operations Experience in Large Scale Dissemination of 
Technology Solutions in Rural India", a joint work with Prof. Chetan S. Solanki (ESE) and Prof. N.C. Narayanan (CTARA)

IEOR students attended the XIX Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM) organized at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata on December 11-13, 2015.

Meenarli Sharma, a research scholar presented a paper on " A Routing and Scheduling Problem in Port Operrations of a Refinery ", a joint work with Krishna Rekapalli, Nitin Mehta and Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, along with Prof. Chetan S. Solanki (Energy Science and Engineering), Prof. N.C.Narayanan (CTARA) and other project staff members attended the one day National level Consultation Workshop on Million Solar Urja Lamp (SoUL) Program, jointly organised by Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and IIT Bombay on 11th December 2015 at New Delhi, India.  The workshop was held to discuss the concept, outcomes and pathway forward for the Million Solar Urja Lamps (SoUL) project.