The interim session of 60th Convocation of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay was held on Saturday, February 26, 2022 from 3:00 pm at Convocation Hall of the Institute and live telecasted on YouTube also.

Dr. Krishna M. Ella Chairman Managing Director of Bharat Biotech International Limited was the Chief guest on the occasion. Mr. Anil Bhatia was awarded with MS by Research degree.

Congratulations to him.

IEOR welcomes Dr. Haseen Rahman to the IEOR family.

Dr. Haseen Rahman has joined the Department of IEOR as a postdoctoral fellow on 22nd February 2022. His research interest lies in Wireless communication, information theory, and Energy harvesting. He is focusing on resource allocation-related problems for energy harvesting communication. 

IEOR congratulates Dr. Arun Verma for receiving COMSNETS best Ph.D. Thesis Award for his thesis 'Sequential Decision Problems with Weak Feedback'. A selection committee comprising of distinguished members of the COMSNETS Association was empowered to select the candidates for the best PhD thesis awards. The coveted awards carry a cash prize of INR 75000/-.  Award.

Dr. Urban Larsson has joined IEOR as a fulltime Associate Professor (Visiting) starting in February 2022.

Dr. Larsson works in the area of Game Theory, Number theory, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Science and Algorithms. His main contributions find bridges between combinatorial games and the neighbouring disciplines.  Urban has presented his research at more than 100 international conferences and seminars, he is an Associate Editor for International Journal of Game Theory, and he is the Editor of two Games of No Chance volumes. 

Title: Improving Sample Efficiency in Evolutionary RL using Off-policy Ranking

Time and Date: 3pm, 11 February, Friday 

Speaker: Dr. Gugan Thoppe, Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science

Title: Semi-Double-loop machine learning based CPS approach for predictive maintenance in manufacturing system based on machine status indications.

Speaker: Dr. Vijay Kumar Manupati, Assistant Professor, NIT Warangal.

Date and Time: Tuesday, February 1 2022, 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm

Title: Commercial and Operations Planning Models in Airlines

Speaker: Dr. Ankur Garg

Day, Date and Time:  Thursday, Jan 27,2022, 6:00 p.m.