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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

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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

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Burak Kazaz featured in Forbes for work on Wine Futures

April 25, 2017

IEOR visiting scholar and Syracuse University Professor Burak Kazaz’s research on wine analytics was recently featured in a Forbes. In Kazaz’s paper, Wine Analytics: Fine Wine Pricing and Selection under Weather and Market Uncertainty, he argues that distributors that carefully invest in the wine futures market, “could improve profits as much as…

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Rob Leachman To Speak At Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference

February 16, 2017

IEOR Professor Rob Leachman will make an invited presentation titled “Economics of Far East – USA Import Supply Chains” at the 17th annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference in Long Beach, CA, on February 28, 2017. Rob also will participate in the panel discussion “Industrial Real Estate: A Comparative Pricing Analysis of the North…

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Summer Opportunities for Students 2017

February 9, 2017

Spring semester beginnings bring new summer opportunities for all students, undergraduate and graduate, in various fields. Listed below are Summer opportunities such as research fellowships, internships, scholarships and more.  STEM Opportunities Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) – LSApplication due by: February 16, 2017Award: $4,000 Haas Scholars Program (a senior capstone experience…

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IEOR Researchers Lead Efforts To Address Environmental Challenges In Energy, Pollution And Global Warming

February 9, 2017

February 9, 2017 IEOR professors Max Shen, Shmuel Oren, Xin Guo, Ilan Adler, and Javad Lavaei are working on some of the most pressing problems of our time as lead researchers for the Environmental Science and New Energy Technology Research Center at the two-year-old Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI). The center brings together…

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Operations Research Analyst ranks as one of the best jobs in the U.S.

January 31, 2017

U.S. News & World Report announced the best jobs in 2017 in various categories. The news ranking look at 15 different categories, ranging from best jobs to specific sectors like business and healthcare. The rankings are calculated based on the “most important aspects of a job, including growth potential, work-life balance…

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Dorit Hochbaum’s neuron segmentation algorithm leads Neurofinder benchmark

January 27, 2017

The image above shows an example of a neuronal movie created with calcium imaging. Hochbaum’s algorithm seeks to detect the neurons in the movie and track their behavior over time IEOR Professor Dorit Hochbaum’s neuron segmentation algorithm HNCcorr is currently the leading algorithm in Neurofinder which tests algorithms to see which are best for identifying…