Posts by Kartik Aggarwal
Xin (Jennifer) Chen Delivers Student Commencement Address
“To me, IEOR is not just an academic discipline; it’s fundamentally an art of thinking. Industrial Engineers articulate real-world problems through a diverse array of stylized mathematical models—whether it’s a queueing model, a stochastic optimization model, or a fluid dynamics model. Then, we develop and apply techniques in optimization, stochastics, and simulation to devise solutions.”…
Read MoreHaixiang Zhang Receives 2024 Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics
Haixiang Zhang (https://zhanghxpku.github.io/), a UC Berkeley graduate student, has been honored with the 2024 Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics. Established in 1966, this award recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding research in applied mathematics. Zhang, advised by Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei, has shown substantial achievements in the field. He graduated from UC Berkeley…
Read MoreOutstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Yunduan Lin Runhuan Xie We are pleased to announce that Yunduan Lin and Runhan Xie, PhD Candidates in Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) at UC Berkeley, respectively, have been honored with the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Award. Both recipients have earned excellent ratings and high praise for their impactful teaching…
Read MoreEthan Lam B.S. ’25 Wins Best Decentralized App Award at TreeHacks 2024
During Stanford’s premier hackathon TreeHacks 2024, Ethan Lam, a third-year Berkeley IEOR student, and his team won the Best Decentralized App Award on the Ava Labs sponsor track. Their project, zKnowledge Base, is a social publishing platform aimed at democratizing research paper access through decentralized storage of research papers and a vibrant community. Their success earned them…
Read MoreBerkeley Analytics Lab Showcase
Max Shen and JD.com team win 2024 INFORMS Prize
INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has awarded JD.com, a leading technology and service provider with supply chain at its core, the prestigious 2024 INFORMS Prize for its outstanding use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics to enhance its supply chain efficiency. Leading this effort is Berkeley IEOR Professor Emeritus Max…
Read MoreTeaching it Forward
In June and July 2023, Berkeley IEOR hosted the first in-person Kids Teach Tech (KTT) STEM Summer Camp. Over one hundred youth came to UC Berkeley for a dynamic two-week immersion in STEM education, with additional participants joining virtually from various locations across the country. Berkeley IEOR students Ananya Gupta, Thomas Guzman, and Brooke Soobrian…
Read MoreTransforming the Synthetic Biology Industry Berkeley IEOR Professor Rob Leachman’s Pioneering Benchmarking Study
Photo by Adam Lau Berkeley IEOR Professor Rob Leachman has been awarded a $1 million grant from BioMADE, a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, and 10 synthetic biology companies that are BioMADE members. The grant will fund Professor Leachman’s study titled “Benchmarking Synthetic Biology Product Development,” which seeks to…
Read MoreSpotlight on Berkeley IEOR Alum Bud Lyons BS ‘72
We recently caught up with Berkeley alum Bud Lyons, a trailblazer who holds a B.S. from Berkeley IEOR and an MBA from Stanford University. With a stellar career trajectory in real estate investment and management, Lyons has assumed pivotal leadership roles across diverse organizations. Notably, his expertise has been instrumental in shaping the strategies of…
Read MoreCal Alum Sonita Lontoh ’99 challenges us to achieve 100 gifts for Big Give
In celebration of International Women’s Month, Cal alum Sonita Lontoh ’99 is challenging the Berkeley IEOR community for Big Give 2024. Sonita will donate an amazing $15,000 if we can secure 100 gifts to Berkeley IEOR during Big Give. Every gift matters and will help us reach our 150 goals to support the people, programs,…
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