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Alumni Profiles
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
Salar Fattahi
Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan
Yonatan Mintz
Assistant professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
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)…
Recent News
Operations Research Analyst ranks as one of the best jobs in the U.S.
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…
Dorit Hochbaum’s neuron segmentation algorithm leads Neurofinder benchmark
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…
Javad Lavaei Awarded SIAG/Control And Systems Theory Prize
The SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory (SIAG/CST) awards the SIAG/CST Prize every two years to an early career researcher for outstanding research contributions, as determined by the prize committee, to mathematical control or systems theory. This year’s award goes to UC Berkeley Assistant Professor Javad Lavaei in…
Ken Goldberg investigates robot-assisted precision irrigation to help address global water demand
While the drought seems to flow away with recent California rains, the demand for water in agriculture remains a problem. However, California is not the only place with this issue: all over the world, agriculture consumes at least 70% of the world’s freshwater. To help address this problem, the U.S. Department of…
MEng capstone project leads to article in Science
IEOR Professor Lee Fleming and his collaborators — including alumnus Jason Boada (MEng ’15) — were recently featured in the journal Science for their research on crowdfunding. The research shows that when a region of the U.S. has successful crowdfunding campaigns (e.g. on Kickstarter), it tends to be followed by an increase in venture capital in…
Fast Company features Ken Goldberg’s research on robot grasping
Collaborative Assessment and Feedback Engine Eugene Pang September 5, 2017 While machines continue to reduce much of the drudgery that humans endure, there are still some problems which remain extremely difficult for roboticists and other engineers to solve. Why is it that some technologies such as virtual reality and self-driving cars are becoming a reality, but we…