Posts by Eugene Pang
Prof. Goldberg invited to speak at NSF Engineering Directorate Advisory Board
Professor Goldberg will be speaking at the 2018 Fall Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Advisory committee (AdCom) meeting, sponsored by NSF. Professor Goldberg’s talk is titled “Are Artificial Intelligence and Robots…
Read MoreShmuel Oren awarded Berkeley Citation
IEOR professor of the graduate school Shmuel Oren has just been awarded the Berkeley Citation by Chancellor Carol Christ. The Citation is one of the University of California, Berkeley’s highest…
Read MoreFairness in machine learning paper wins INFORMS 2018 Data Mining & Decision Analytics award
IEOR PhD student Matt Olfat’s and assistant professor Anil Aswani’s paper “Spectral algorithms for computing fair support vector machines” won the INFORMS 2018 Data Mining & Decision Analytics Workshop best…
Read MoreBerkeley engineers win 2018 best paper in data mining
IEOR PhD student Salar Fattahi and EECS assistant professor in residence Somayeh Sojoudi have won the INFORMS 2018 Data Mining Best Paper Award. Fattahi and Sojoudi presented their paper “Graphical Lasso and Thresholding:…
Read MoreProfessor Candi Yano wins INFORMS Kimball Medal
Professor Candi Yano was awarded the INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal in recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of operations research and the management sciences.…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineers Selected to Modernize the Grid
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has just selected eighteen teams, including two with UC Berkeley Engineering researchers, to participate in the new Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The UC Berkeley team…
Read MoreFaculty Position in Operations Management/Supply Chain/Logistics in the IEOR Department
The DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (IEOR) at University of California, Berkeley welcomes applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the broad area…
Read MoreMax Z. Shen awarded as a 2018 INFORMS Fellow
IEOR Professor Max Shen has been named a 2018 INFORMS Fellow. INFORMS Fellows Awards are announced once per year, and are reserved for researchers that exemplify outstanding lifetime achievement in operations…
Read MoreProfessor Ken Goldberg highlighted in The Economist
Professor Goldberg was highlighted in a recent article by The Economist on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ken Goldberg and Vinod Kumar, the chief executive of Tata communications, created an optimistic report…
Read MoreBerkeley 150 Profile: George Dantzig
George Dantzig is considered a founding father of industrial engineering and operations research, but one of his most incredible achievements took place while he was still a doctoral student at Berkeley. Arriving…
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