Posts by Keith McAleer
Professor 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…
Read MoreNAE interview: Why Ken Goldberg loves art, engineering, and robots
IEOR Department Benefits from a New $1 Million Endowment to Support Graduate Students
IEOR alumni and friends have made 479 contributions to the IEOR Graduate Student Support Fund since it was established in 2009 by professor and alumna, Rhonda Righter, along with IEOR alumni, faculty and friends. Now UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research will benefit from a new $1 million endowment to support its…
Read MoreKatta G. Murty Best Paper Prize awarded to Alfonso Lobos
Alfonso Lobos was named as the 2021 recipient of the Katta G. Murty Best Paper Prize. The award faculty committee selected Alfonso for his phenomenal work on “Optimal Bidding, Allocation, and Budget Spending for a Demand-Side Platform with Generic Auctions” with Paul Grigas and industry collaborators, Zheng Wen and Kuang-Chih Lee. The Katta G. Murty…
Read MoreAnnouncing Vishrut Rana as the 2021 Joe Arai Undergraduate Research Fellow
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is pleased to announce that Vishrut Rana will be receiving the 2021 Joe Arai Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which includes a research experience with a member of the IEOR faculty and a $4,000 stipend. Vishrut is a rising senior pursuing a major in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research,…
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