Archive for February 2024
Berkeley IEOR Alum Sonita Lontoh Featured in Manufacturing Today Magazine
Berkeley IEOR alum Sonita Lontoh ’99 takes center stage in the latest edition of Manufacturing Today magazine. The feature illuminates Lontoh’s remarkable career, from her tenure as a board director at Fortune 100 giants like HP and Siemens to her current roles at Sunrun and TrueBlue. Delving deeper, Lontoh reflects on her upbringing in Indonesia,…
Read MoreStudent Spotlight: Q&A with Adrian Enders, Berkeley Analytics ‘24
Q: How has your experience as a student-athlete influenced your approach to academics? A: Rowing has definitely shaped my approach to academics. The routine of early morning practices has taught me to stay organized and self-disciplined. I’ve learned how to balance classes and studying, while still managing to have a social life. Rowing has taught…
Read MoreTransforming Decision-Making with AI: A Shift from Prediction to Optimization in Machine Learning
Amid the surging popularity of AI, companies, organizations, and institutions worldwide are eagerly embracing its transformative potential. Yet, a disparity exists, rooted in the steep costs and extended time frames required for training machine learning models. This challenge is particularly acute in supervised learning—a popular machine learning approach where algorithms learn from labeled datasets. Here,…
Read MoreRajan Udwani Receives NSF Career Award
Berkeley IEOR Assistant Professor Rajan Udwani has won the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. The CAREER award is the NSF’s most prestigious award given to support early-career faculty members “who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the…
Read MoreCelebrating Valentine’s Day with Berkeley IEOR Alums Steve Tai and KC Wu
As a mathematics and chemistry major at Indiana University Bloomington, Kin-Ching Wu, also known as KC, hadn’t initially envisioned pursuing her graduate studies at Berkeley. However, her father urged KC to stay close to her mother, who had recently immigrated from Hong Kong to California. So, she decided to apply to Berkeley almost on a…
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