Alumni Awards
Meet 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read MoreRecognizing Alumnae for International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month
Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), an internationally recognized celebration and commemoration of women’s rights, and March is Women’s History Month. We recently profiled one of our favorite female historical figures, Lillian Gilbreth, the first…
Read MoreAlum Kory Hedman Receives Presidential Early Career Award
President Obama has just named IEOR alum Kory Hedman (Ph.D. ’10) as one of 102 people to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by…
Read MoreIEOR alum named to ‘30 under 30′ list
IEOR alum Thibault Duchemin (Master of Engineering ‘14) has just been named to the latest Forbes ‘30 under 30′ list for 2017 as cofounder of Ava, a mobile application that translates conversations into text…
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