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PhD Program

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The application period for Fall 2025 admissions to the IEOR MS and PhD programs is now open.

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

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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

Recent News

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Anil Aswani Wins Siebel Energy Institute Grant

May 6, 2016

May 6, 2016 The Siebel Energy Institute has just announced its 2016 research grant recipients which include IEOR Assistant Professor Anil Aswani. Recipients will receive $50,000 seed grants to develop energy science research. Anil will join Emmanuel Gobet and Philippe Drobinski from École Polytechnique in researching “Data Analytics and Stochastic Control for Optimal Management…

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Recent PhD Graduate Paula Lipka Joins PG&E’s Short-Term Electric Supply Team

April 29, 2016

“We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.”– Bill Bryson The electric world is an amazing one:  illuminated screens bring us all the information that humans have compiled…

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Berkeley Team Wins Geisinger Health Collider

April 20, 2016

The Sutardja Center is pleased to announce that Team Outliers (Rebecca Barter and Shamindra Shrotriya) have won the Geisinger Health Collider. Team Outliers competed against four other teams: three teams from Goethe University in Germany and one from Stanford.  Rebecca is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley…

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The Sutardja Center at CalDay: Discovering Entrepreneurship at Berkeley

April 15, 2016

CalDay is the perfect opportunity for potential new undergraduate students to get to know one of the most prestigious universities on the planet. This coming Saturday, April 16th, high school seniors, their families, and the already Cal-bound community will be participating in a series of events, exhibitions and lecture series that…

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Students Organize First Annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium

April 9, 2016

Today, students came together for the first annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium. PhD students presented on a broad array of topics representative of the many areas where IEOR tools are applicable including supply chains, energy systems, robotics, health care, neuroimaging, and others.  This first symposium was initiated and organized by graduates with…

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Javad Lavaei Wins 2016 Donald P. Eckman Award

March 16, 2016

March 16, 2016 The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) has just announced that UC Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei will receive the 2016 Donald P. Eckman award for “fundamental contributions to optimization and control theory, with applications to design techniques for electrical power networks, internet congestion, and antenna beamforming.”The award is given annually to outstanding engineers under the age of 35 who study automatic control. Past recipients include S. Shankar Sastry, the current dean of the…