Archive for April 2016
Recent PhD Graduate Paula Lipka Joins PG&E’s Short-Term Electric Supply Team
“We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.”– Bill Bryson The electric world is an amazing one: illuminated screens bring us all the information that humans have compiled thus far on demand, large…
Read MoreBerkeley Team Wins Geisinger Health Collider
The Sutardja Center is pleased to announce that Team Outliers (Rebecca Barter and Shamindra Shrotriya) have won the Geisinger Health Collider. Team Outliers competed against four other teams: three teams from Goethe University in Germany and one from Stanford. Rebecca is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley (advised by Professor Bin Yu and Professor Jasjeet…
Read MoreThe Sutardja Center at CalDay: Discovering Entrepreneurship at Berkeley
CalDay is the perfect opportunity for potential new undergraduate students to get to know one of the most prestigious universities on the planet. This coming Saturday, April 16th, high school seniors, their families, and the already Cal-bound community will be participating in a series of events, exhibitions and lecture series that intend to depict what is…
Read MoreStudents Organize First Annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium
Today, students came together for the first annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium. PhD students presented on a broad array of topics representative of the many areas where IEOR tools are applicable including supply chains, energy systems, robotics, health care, neuroimaging, and others. This first symposium was initiated and organized by graduates with the goal of helping PhD…
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