Archive for May 2020
IEOR Alum to head Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, Dr. Kory Hedman, Ph.D. ’10 (IEOR), will serve as the new Director of Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) from October 2020. Dr. Hedman replaces Dr. Vijay Vittal who led PSERC for the last 15 years. PSERC was established in 1996 as an NSF Industry/University Collaborative…
Read MoreFung Feature: Fellipe Marcellino awarded 2020 Intellectual Technical Contribution Award
Fung Feature: Francesco Piccoli wins 2020 Intellectual Leadership Contribution Award
Fung Feature: Pierre-Habté Nouvellon, MEng ’18 (IEOR), shares his entrepreneurial journey
Katta G. Murty Best Paper Prize awarded to Matt Olfat
Matt Olfat was named as the 2020 recipient of the Katta G. Murty Best Paper Prize. The award faculty committee selected Matt for his phenomenal work on “Optimization Hierarchy for Fair Statistical Decision Problems” with Anil Aswani. The Katta G. Murty Prize, established in 2006 as a gift from IEOR alum Katta Murty (’68 PhD IEOR),…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2020 Jengyee Prize Recipients
Congratulations to Sang-Min Kim and Nicholas Foo for winning the 2020 Jengyee Prize, Leadership for a Better World scholarship. Sang-Min Kim is a graduating senior in Political Science with a minor in Public Health. For the past seven years, he has been actively involved in promoting human rights causes, including reunification of North Koreans with their…
Read MoreIEOR Alumni among the World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors
Named in Poets&Quants’ annual list of The World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors were two Berkeley IEOR alumni. Gah-Yi Ban, a 2012 Berkeley graduate with a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and now an assistant professor of Management Science and Operations at the London Business School, and Auyon Siddiq, a 2018 Berkeley…
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