Ms. Sona Babu, PhD student, working under the supervision of Dr. B.S.Girish in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the Third Best Paper Award for the paper "A heuristic algorithm for the Pareto-based bi-objective optimization of total earliness and total tardiness in a JIT single machine scheduling problem" authored by Sona Babu and Dr. B. S. Girish, presented in the prestigious 56th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (2023-ORSI) and 10th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (2023-ICBAI), jointly organized by IISc and IIM Bangalore, held at IISc Bangalore during December 18-20, 2023.