Posts by Eugene Pang
Berkeley IEOR Ranks 3rd in the U.S. News and World Reports Rankings
The UC Berkeley IEOR department’s graduate program was ranked 3rd in the nation according to the latest U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 rankings, with the Georgia Institute of Technology ranking 1st and…
Read MoreHow Flight Simulation Tech Could Help Turn Robots Into Surgeons
While the use of robots in surgery has come a long way with the advent of the da Vinci Surgical System. However, current technology still requires a human mind to…
Read MoreIEOR Graduate Students Creates New Exercise App Using Machine Learning
IEOR graduate students Mo Zhou and Yonatan Mintz are addressing exercise commitment issues with a new app that uses machine learning to adjust goals on a daily basis. Each New Year around 20% of Americans vow…
Read More2018 Jengyee Prize Announced – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Attention undergraduates! The 2018 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World — is now accepting applications. The $2,000 prize is awarded annually and is open to all undergraduate students with a…
Read MoreAlum Gives Back By Supporting STEAM In Local Schools
After retirement, Dr. Paul Wing (IEOR PhD ’71) was worried that without the right education children would be missing out on scientific and technological discoveries in “this amazing period of scientific…
Read MoreProf. Grigas Receives NSF CRII Award To Improve Machine Learning Methods
IEOR professor Paul Grigas was recently awarded the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant in the amount of $175,000 to investigate large-scale optimization methods and…
Read MoreProf. Oren Video Interview With INFORMS History And Traditions
IEOR Professor Shmuel Oren was recently interviewed by Dr. Ramteen Sioshanshi, professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, presented by INFORMS as part of the History and…
Read MoreIEOR PhD Student Chosen As Finalist At American Control Conference (ACC)
IEOR PhD student Salar Fattahi has been chosen as one of five finalists for the prestigious American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award for his paper titled “Closed-Form Solution and Sparsity Path for…
Read MoreProf. Righter Wins VALUETOOLS 2017 Best Paper Award
Professor Rhonda Righter, along with her collaborators Ivo Adan (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Gideon Weiss (The University of Haifa), have been award the Best Paper Award at the 11th…
Read MoreIEOR welcomes award-winning postdoc
IEOR is proud to welcome Cédric Josz to the Berkeley community. Cédric is currently pursuing a postdoc in EECS and IEOR under the supervision of Somayeh Sojoudi and Javad Lavaei where…
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