Research Areas
UC Berkeley's Alpha Lab is a center for research in automation and robotics. Our primary focus is efficient geometric algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing and Grasping. Research in automated manufacturing is needed now to make the high precision, rapidly evolving products of the future. Key issues are reducing set up times and costs while increasing precision and reliability. The overall goal of our research is to establish a science base for automated assembly by analyzing its basic components. Read More
Integer programming is a powerful and versatile modeling and optimization framework for solving problems involving decision variables that come from a discrete set. These hard-to-solve, non-convex optimization problems arise in diverse applications ranging from radiotherapy to electronic financial/commodity exchanges, from fiber-optic network design to power generation. Read More
A WWW-based interactive repository and testbed for optimization algorithms. We propose to create a world wide web (www) site containing a collection of software for optimization. In addition to serving the research community, the site will also serve end users in government, industry and commerce with a readily available and easy to understand interface. Read More
The Berkeley Simulation Group (BSG) is a research group headed by Prof. Lee Schruben. Our research interests primarily in the field of discrete event simulation. We mainly use the event scheduling-approach to simulation modeling. This is an extremely powerful modeling paradigm that is very efficient even for large, congested systems. Read More
Supply chain management is one of the fastest growing and most influential areas within industrial engineering and operations research, and UC Berkeley IEOR faculty members are some of the world's leading supply chain management experts. Researchers in the department are actively exploring a variety of approaches to integrating and optimizing various operational, tactical and strategic decisions in large-scale supply chains, and are developing techniques to help managers deal with the uncertainty inherent in the real world. Read More
The University of California at Berkeley's Center for Biopharmaceutical Operations partners with Industrial and Government organizations to advance the art and practice of biopharmaceutical production operations and logistics.
The Group brings together world-class, interdisciplinary academic researchers with diverse industrial experience and operations managers and engineers in the biopharmaceutical industry.
CBO focuses on specific, critical issues facing this industry with the aim of developing practical methodologies, measures, and tools to improve operations. Researchers, managers, and engineers collaborate to design and implement more cost-effective and reliable production systems and supply-chains for manufacturing and distributing safe and effective drugs. Read More