The Interdisciplinary Decision Sciences & Analytics Lab (IDeAL) is a Centre of Excellence at the Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam. This Lab is dedicated to academic research, industrial/Govt. consultancy, product development and training to support inter-disciplinary research using the innovations of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, cloud computing, graph analytics, game theory, cyber-physical systems, pervasive computing etc. while keeping Mathematical Optimization and Data Science as the core in the approach of solving the inter-disciplinary problems faced by India and other emerging economies.

Knowledge Centre
A space for students, scholars and practitioners to come together for knowledge creation and dissemination.

Knowledge Sharing
Through seminars and training programmes, a good knowledge sharing for the capacity-building of learners to ensure the sustainability of individuals, teams, and organization.

Consultancy and Advisory
Joint research projects with Government and industry for common goals and maximizing the outcome for the stakeholders.
Thrust / Applied Areas:
Thrust / Applied Areas:
Health Care

With data science and optimization models, public-health system could be transformed into a high-quality and quick-response service-delivery system. The data analytics, AI and optimization-based solutions have great potential in bringing efficiency and effectiveness into service-delivery.
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The data science approach is tremendously valuable for public servants and public policy. It pushes people to defy conjecture, consider counterfactuals, reason about complex patterns, and question what an information is missing.
Read moreNatural Resource

The management of all-natural resources faces the common central problem of how data is exploited to build predictive and integrated models that can be used to make sustainable decisions in the presence of uncertainty.
Read moreCyber-physical Systems

As computing and communication devices become smaller and cheaper, they can be embedded in objects and structures to interact directly with the physical environment and reach human capabilities. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are a compilation of computing and communication units.
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Technology and Platform
Technology and Platform