Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, a global hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley (Berkeley IEOR) is uniquely positioned to drive the technologies shaping our future economy and to prepare students for impactful and dynamic careers.

The unprecedented demand for data-driven, automated decision-making and AI technologies is rapidly rising across industries like e-commerce, healthcare, transportation, and energy. Businesses and governments seek to harness data as a way to respond faster to changes in demand and supply, to better manage cost and risk, and to improve the efficiency of their operations. Our faculty and students are equipped to address these challenges, engineering data-driven solutions for business and industry.

In the last five years, enrollment into UC Berkeley IEOR graduate and undergraduate programs has more than doubled. This matches industry demand for professionals adept at applying data-driven innovation to real-world challenges in healthcare, supply chains, energy, finance, and more. We expect this strong growth trend to continue for the foreseeable future. In order to better position our department to meet the demand into our programs, we welcomed seven new faculty members (Professors Cui, Jia, Kerger, Mastrolia, Pirutinsky, Udwani, and Yan) into our ranks and are in the process of hiring two new faculty members this year.

As the nation’s preeminent public higher education institution, we are committed to expanding our programs, providing opportunities to students from all backgrounds, and training highly skilled professionals to contribute to a diverse workforce.

Thank you for visiting the UC Berkeley IEOR department website, and Go Bears!

Xin Guo
Professor and UC Berkeley IEOR Department Chair
Coleman Fung Chair Professor in Financial Modeling
UC Berkeley Engineering