Divya Jyoti Bajpai, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay presented papers "DADEE: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Early Exit PLMs" and "CAPEEN: Image Captioning with Early Exits and Knowledge Distillation",  co-authored with Prof. Manjesh Kumar Hanawal at the The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference held at Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel, in Miami, Florida. The dates for the conference were November 12, 2024, to November 16, 2024.

IEOR student T.Karthik Rajendran (M.Sc.) received institute prizes for academic performance during the function to celebrate National Education Day on November 11, 2024.  Dr Vasudha Kamat, Former Vice Chancellor of SNDT University, was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

Congratulations to Karthik and Pulkit!

Dhawal Thakkar, Ph.D. student of IEOR, presented the work (under the supervision of Prof P. Balamurugan) on "Automatic Tweet Mentions Recommendation in X for Reporting Civic Issues - Case Study based on Mumbai City, India" at the 10th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference on "Smart Cities: Revolution for Mankind" held at Royal Cliff Grand Hotel, Pattaya, Thailand on 29th October - 1st November, 2024. Authors of the paper are Aayush Patel, Chaitya Dobariya, Dayanand Ambawade, Dhawal Thakkar and P. Balamurugan.

Bheeshm Sharma, a PhD student in the IEOR department at IIT Bombay, presented a poster at the 17th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (CISP-BMEI 2024). The poster was entitled "MCDDPM: Multichannel Conditional Denoising Diffusion Model for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI.", co-authored by Vivek Kumar Trivedi and P. Balamurugan. The congress took place from October 26 to 28, 2024, at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Date : 10 October 2024

snacks : 5:05 PM - 5:30 PM
stORIEs : 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Venue : LC - 301

Speaker : Arvind Kumar, Senior Advisor, Optym.

The Traveling Salesman, his crew and some last mile roadblocks.