Posts by Keith McAleer
IEOR Welcomes Carolyn Yee to its Advisory Board
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is excited to welcome alumna Carolyn Yee to the IEOR Advisory Board. “I am honored to join the IEOR Advisory Board to shape the future of the department and the field of study, especially as we expand the frontiers of optimization, stochastics, and data science and analytics,”…
Read MoreWhat is IEOR?
What is IEOR? In this award-winning video, IEOR students explain what industrial engineering & operations research is, how their skills can improve the world, and discuss exciting careers in IEOR. IEOR is the process of inventing and designing ways to analyze and improve complex systems. IEOR improves processes to create a better world. IEOR utilizes…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR and Georgia Tech ISYE partner with Kids Teach Tech to inspire underrepresented youth with the power of engineering and data analytics
This summer, Berkeley IEOR, Georgia Tech ISYE, and Kids Teach Tech partnered to deliver The Seth Bonder Camp in Computational and Data Science for Engineering to 5th – 12th grade students. The camp introduced data science and analytics with real world applications in games, sentiment analysis, computational biology, and medical diagnosis. The camp was offered…
Read MoreKen Goldberg featured on NPR Marketplace Tech on how robots can help with supply chain issues this holiday season
With ongoing shortages of workers, supplies, products and materials, it may be tough for consumers to get their gifts in time for the holiday season. Can new robotic technology developed by Berkeley IEOR and Professor Ken Goldberg help consumers receive their gifts on time? In an interview on NPR’s Marketplace Tech podcast, Ken Goldberg, IEOR…
Read MoreProfessor Emeritus Ronald W. Wolff Establishes Endowed Faculty Chair and Graduate Student Fellowship to Support the Next Generations in IEOR
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) is excited to announce the establishment of the Ronald W. Wolff Chair and the Ronald W. Wolff Fellowship. The Ronald W. Wolff Chair and Graduate Student Fellowship are made possible by generous donations from IEOR Professor Emeritus Ron Wolff to attract the brightest minds in the…
Read MoreUsing machine learning to detect early stage cancers
UC Berkeley IEOR launches Master of Analytics degree program to help address shortage of workers with data and analytics skills
UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) has just launched Berkeley Master of Analytics, a new professional degree program in the College of Engineering that will equip the next generation of analytics professionals with the latest tools and methods in data analytics, optimization, risk modeling and simulation to help meet the severe…
Read MoreIEOR to play a leading role in new National Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization
Food stamps stretch farther when recipients have time to cook, IEOR & public health study finds
Ikhlaq Sidhu receives Best Paper Award at ICE-IEEE 2021
SCET Faculty Director, Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu, has just received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Engineering, Technology, Innovation (ICE) 2021 for his paper A Generalized Framework for Algorithm Based Team Formation. Ikhlaq received the award along with his collaborators, Sudarshan Gopalakrishnan (’21 B.S. EECS) and Rajarathnam Balakrishnan (’20 M.Eng. IEOR). More information…
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