Archive for September 2022
A Carbon-Neutral Future with Nanavati Low and BIB Technologies
Nanavati Low (B.S. ‘16 IEOR) co-founded BIB Technologies as a way to help businesses and companies scale efficiently and sustainably. In 2018, BIB Technologies launched four mobile utility vehicle models, including their signature product, AUTOMATO, a modular electric vehicle storefront that combines sustainability with automotive delivery to help address a changing economy, one where more…
Read MoreNational Latinx Heritage Month
Happy Latinx Heritage Month! The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research honors and celebrates the cultures, contributions, and lasting influence of Latinx, Chicanx, and all Hispanic-identified Americans with ancestors in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America and Spain. While every year Americans come together to observe National Latinx Heritage Month from September 15th…
Read MoreIEOR Community Gathers to Pay Tribute to Retiring Professor Phil Kaminsky
The College of Engineering and IEOR community gathered last Saturday, September 10 to honor Professor Phil Kaminsky for his 25+ years of dedicated service to the University. Professor Kaminsky joined the IEOR Department as an Assistant Professor in 1997, where his leading-edge research on logistics systems and supply chains quickly led to important advancements in…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Now Hiring New Tenure-Track Faculty Position
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announce a new tenure-track assistant professor position opening. We welcome applications from all IEOR research areas. Applicants with research interests in optimization, machine learning, logistics, or supply chain engineering are especially encouraged to apply. Diversity, equity, inclusion,…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR’s undergrad program advances to No. 6 in latest U.S. News & World Report rankings
The latest U.S. News & World Report rankings have placed UC Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) Department sixth among all undergraduate industrial engineering programs in the nation, advancing from seventh place in last year’s rankings report. Berkeley IEOR remains second among all graduate industrial engineering programs. This year, UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering…
Read MoreProfessor Ken Goldberg and AUTOLAB Win IEEE CASE Best Paper Award
IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg and UC Berkeley’s AUTOLAB have done it again! The prestigious IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) recently awarded its Best Paper Award to Goldberg and his team (M. Preston, R. Parikh, S. Aeron, S. Mukherjee, S. Adebola. S. Sharma, M. Theis, and W. Teitelbaum) for their impactful research, Automated…
Read MoreAriel Qian (M.E.T IEOR ’24) on the Importance of Programs like Kids Teach Tech
For the second year in a row, Berkeley IEOR has partnered with Georgia Tech ISyE and Kids Teach Tech (KTT) to virtually deliver the Seth Bonder Summer Program in Computational and Data Science for Engineering, an immersive, virtual summer camp designed to give K-12th grade youth a better understanding of the careers and opportunities available…
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