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The applications for Fall 2025 admissions to the IEOR MS and PhD programs are now closed.

Fall 2025 Deadline To Apply: Monday, December 16, 2024, 8:59 p.m. PST

Alumni Profiles

Osman Akgun

Osman Akgun

Portfolio Manager at Bailard, Inc

Junyu Cao

Junyu Cao

Assistant Professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (Decision Science) at McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin

SalarFattahi

Salar Fattahi

Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan

Hespanhol

Pedro Hespanhol

Quantitative Researcher at Aquatic Capital Management

Yusuke Kikuchi

Yusuke Kikuchi

Data Scientist at Genentech

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Yonatan Mintz

Assistant professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Marie Pelagie Elimbi Moudio

Marie Pelagie Elimbi Moudio

Meet Marie Pelagie Elimbi Moudio – a trailblazing Berkeley IEOR Ph.D. student and the inspiration behind The Marie Pelagie Elimbi Moudio Fellowship in IEOR (UC Berkeley photo by Adam Lau)…

Mark Velednitsky

Mark Velednitsky

Staff Applied Scientist at Afresh

Recent News

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Berkeley IEOR ranked No. 3 grad IEOR program in the nation by U.S. News

April 11, 2025

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley has been ranked the No. 3 best IEOR graduate program in the nation, tied with Northwestern University and Purdue University, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the country’s top graduate programs.  Berkeley Engineering remains…

IEOR Professor and PhD student (1080 x 1080 px)

Berkeley IEOR Researchers Named Finalists at American Control Conference

February 11, 2025

Berkeley lEOR PhD student Jihun Kim and Professor Javad Lavaei have been named finalists at the American Control Conference (ACC), a premier annual gathering of researchers and practitioners advancing the field of control systems engineering. Their paper, “Prevailing Against Adversarial Noncentral Disturbances: Exact Recovery of Linear Systems with the l1-Norm…

Photo of Haoting Zhang, the paper's first author, receiving the award plaque during the conference.

Berkeley IEOR PhD students Win Best Theoretical Paper Award

January 8, 2025

Berkeley IEOR PhD students Haoting Zhang, Jinghai He, and recent alum Jingxu Xu (PhD ’24) were honored with the Best Theoretical Paper Award at the 2024 Winter Simulation Conference held in Orlando, Florida. Their award-winning paper, Enhancing Language Models with Both Human and Artificial Intelligence Feedback Data, explores innovative methods…

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Training Smarter AI: New Research Integrates Human and Machine Feedback

January 8, 2025

AI models rely heavily on feedback to refine their outputs and meet user needs. While human feedback is highly effective, it is often expensive, time-intensive, and limited by data privacy constraints. For example, training an AI system to detect early signs of cancer in medical scans relies on radiologists to…

grad student game night

Fostering Community and Success: How Berkeley IEOR’s PhD Mentorship Program Empowers First-Year Students

December 9, 2024

In this interview, third-year PhD student Hannah Davalos explores the PhD Mentorship Program at Berkeley IEOR—an initiative designed to create a supportive and inclusive environment for first-year PhD students. By pairing newcomers with experienced PhD candidates, the program offers valuable guidance as students navigate the challenges of their first year.…

Max Shen and Shuo Sun win Wagner Prize

Berkeley IEOR Shines at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting

October 29, 2024

Berkeley IEOR faculty and students brought home several awards and honors at The 2024 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting. Below is a list of notable achievements: Shuo Sun, PhD candidate, was named a finalist for the Revenue Management and Pricing Section’s 2024 Jeff McGill…