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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

UC Berkeley Mail

Professor Rhonda Righter Takes the Helm as Program Committee Co-Chair for ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 2024

January 18, 2024

ACM SIGMETRICS stands at the forefront of advocating for cutting-edge research in performance analysis for computing and communication systems, focusing on innovative techniques and applications of established methods and tools. Every year, ACM SIGMETRICS sponsors its own conference for the computer performance evaluation community. The IFIP Performance Conference, held annually,…

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Professor Javad Lavaei Awarded UC Noyce Grant for Research Defending Power Grid from Cyberattacks

October 2, 2023

Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei and EECS Professor Somayeh Sojoudi have received a $300,000 grant from the UC Noyce Initiative, a collaborative effort involving five University of California campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara). This initiative, dedicated to honoring the legacy of Ann S. Bowers and Robert…

Power Systems

Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei Secures NSF Grant to Advance Safety in Power Systems

September 20, 2023

Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei, in partnership with his former postdoctoral scholar, now Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, Ming Jin, has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their pioneering project, “Safety under Distributional Shift in Learning-Enabled Power Systems.” This project is poised to transform the…

Ying Cui

Berkeley IEOR Professor Ying Cui Receives NIH Award for Advancing Biomedical Data Learning

August 8, 2023

Berkeley IEOR professor Ying Cui was recently awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Cancer Institute, titled “SCH: A New Computational Framework for Learning from Imbalanced Biomedical Data,” for her work aimed at developing new machine learning tools to address the challenge of learning from…

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Celebrating the Class of 2023

May 25, 2023

Last week marked a significant milestone as the College of Engineering celebrated nearly 2,000 students who earned bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees. Among this year’s graduating cohort, Berkeley IEOR granted degrees to 27 ORMS undergraduates, 64 IEOR undergraduates, 139 masters of engineering, 76 masters of analytics, 14 masters of science,…

UC Leads Winners

Berkeley IEOR Students Receive Top Honors at UC Leads Symposium

April 21, 2023

Berkeley IEOR undergraduate students Isa Demetz and Santiago Karam Padilla won top honors for their research posters during last weekend’s UC Leads Research & Leadership Symposium. The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program is designed to engage and educate California’s future leaders by preparing promising…