Alumni Awards
UC Berkeley IEOR at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting
UC Berkeley IEOR faculty, students, and alumni brought home several awards at the 2025 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting. Below is a list of their accomplishments: Renato D.C. Monteiro, a UC Berkeley IEOR PhD alum (Class of 1988) and Coca-Cola Foundation Chair Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR professor and alum earn international prize for breakthroughs in optimization
UC Berkeley Professor Alper Atamturk and UC Berkeley alum Andrés Gómez have been awarded the 2025 INFORMS Computing Society Prize, an honor recognizing outstanding contributions at the intersection of computing with operations research. They share the award with their collaborator Shaoning Han. The team is recognized for a sequence of five papers introducing new mathematical…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR Honors Alum Tony Xu during Community Celebration Event
On Wednesday, April 30, the UC Berkeley Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Berkeley IEOR) hosted its 2025 Community Celebration & Alumni Achievement Ceremony, bringing together alumni, faculty, students, and friends for an evening of recognition and reflection at the Cal Alumni House.
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR to Honor Tony Xu with Inaugural Alumni Achievement Award
Berkeley IEOR to Honor Tony Xu with Inaugural Alumni Achievement Award Tony Xu, CEO and Co-founder of Doordash The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Tony Xu (B.S. IEOR ’07), will be honored with the department’s inaugural Berkeley IEOR Alumni Achievement Award. The award will be…
Read MoreTraining Smarter AI: New Research Integrates Human and Machine Feedback
AI models rely heavily on feedback to refine their outputs and meet user needs. While human feedback is highly effective, it is often expensive, time-intensive, and limited by data privacy constraints. For example, training an AI system to detect early signs of cancer in medical scans relies on radiologists to verify predictions and provide annotations.…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Shines at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Berkeley IEOR faculty and students brought home several awards and honors at The 2024 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting. Below is a list of notable achievements: Shuo Sun, PhD candidate, was named a finalist for the Revenue Management and Pricing Section’s 2024 Jeff McGill Student Paper Award for her…
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 MoreBerkeley IEOR Alum Sonita Lontoh Recognized As One of the Most Influential Women in the Bay Area
Sonita Lontoh (B.S. IEOR ’99) has been recognized as one of the Influential Women in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. SFBT Influential Women 2023, SONITA LONTOH In 1999, Sonita Lontoh earned her Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley, kickstarting a career that has now thrived for nearly…
Read MoreAlper Atamturk Awarded Farkas Prize
IEOR Department Professor and Chair Alper Atamturk has received the 2023 Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society, the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, artificial intelligence, and other relevant fields. The Farkas Prize recognizes a mid-career researcher for outstanding contributions to the field of optimization, over the course of their career.…
Read MoreRhonda Righter Named 2023 INFORMS Fellow
Berkeley IEOR Professor Rhonda Righter has been named a 2023 INFORMS Fellow. The honor is one of the most prestigious in the operations research (OR) profession. As the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, artificial intelligence, and other relevant fields, INFORMS annually recognizes fellows for their outstanding lifetime accomplishments and contributions in…
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