Alumni Awards
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Spotlight on Professor Xin Guo and Her Research Group
March is Women’s History Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the achievements of women in our community and around the world. Berkeley Engineering has always been a leader in breaking barriers for women, and the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research takes great pride in leading the college in gender diversity, with over…
Read MoreIEOR Alum Receives 2021 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award
Associate Professor at Belgium’s Universit´e catholique de Louvain, Anthony Papavasiliou, Berkeley IEOR PhD ’11, has been awarded the prestigious Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award for 2021. One of six other recipients from other fields, Papavasiliou received the award in the field of Applied Science: Alternative and Renewable Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources Management, Low Carbon…
Read MoreFrom IEOR to Fintech Entrepreneur: Alum Haryanto Tanjo Shares His Journey
Haryanto Tanjo (B.S. IEOR ‘09) came to Cal as an international student from Indonesia. After graduation, he worked at Cisco, Bayer HealthCare, and then spent three years with Webster Pacific, a management consulting firm in the Bay Area. Haryanto went on to earn an MBA at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his MBA,…
Read MoreMeet the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 Recipient IEOR Alum Transforming Manufacturing
“[The] greatest opportunities arise in areas no one is looking at,” says IEOR ‘09 Alum Willson Deng. In a recent conversation with the department, Willson spoke about how he ended up in IEOR and how that developed his passion for digital manufacturing. An affinity for numbers was what made Willson Deng decide to pursue Business…
Read MoreFung Feature: Pierre-Habté Nouvellon, MEng ’18 (IEOR), shares his entrepreneurial journey
IEOR Alumni among the World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors
Named in Poets&Quants’ annual list of The World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors were two Berkeley IEOR alumni. Gah-Yi Ban, a 2012 Berkeley graduate with a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and now an assistant professor of Management Science and Operations at the London Business School, and Auyon Siddiq, a 2018 Berkeley…
Read MoreMEng Alumni are Finalists in IBM Call for Code 2019 Global Prize
A group of five University of California, Berkeley master of engineering alumni are finalists in the IBM Call for Code 2019 Global Prize. The alums’ Project AsTeR used artificial intelligence to help analyze and respond to the surge of emergency calls that typically take place after a disaster strikes. Over 5,000 projects applied to the…
Read MoreThe Hidden Social Mission Driving This Cal Alumna’s Trending Toy Startup
Last week, there was an unusual sight in UC Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering 185 course: stuffed animals. The toys, called Animoodles, put an innovative twist on the traditional plushie. As students passed them around the class, they found that hidden magnets allowed them to pop off each toy’s head or limbs and mix and match parts with…
Read MoreIEOR alum wins $100k data science competition
Allen Tang (Operations Research & Management Science ’16), along with three other Berkeley students, won a $100,000 prize last week in the Data Open championship, sponsored by the hedge fund Citadel. Tang is currently pursuing a master of science degree at Berkeley in electrical engineering & computer sciences. His teammates were statistics graduate students Sören…
Read MoreMEng Alumus Featured in Inc. ’30 under 30′ list
M.Eng alumnus Han Jin, founder and CEO of Lucid VR was recently featured in Inc. ’30 under 30′ list. Lucid VR’s first product is the $499 LucidCam, a virtual reality camera that lets users capture the world in 3D. “It is among the first virtual reality cameras geared toward the average consumer,” said Jin. The…
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