UC Berkeley IEOR Advisory Board Welcomes Three New Members

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UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research has appointed three alumni and industry leaders to its Advisory Board. Raymond Ma of Apple, Peter Wei of Rocket Software, and Tim Jacobs of Walmart join the board in its work to advance the department’s strategic vision and strengthen its industry impact. Raymond Ma is a…

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UC Berkeley IEOR at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting

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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…

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Job Market Placements for Our 2025 Graduating Doctoral Students

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Dilara Aykanat Applied Scientist at Uber Yunliang (Lawrence) Chen Researcher (Member of Technical Staff) at OpenAI Anna Deza Postdoctoral Fellowship at ISyE Georgia Tech Shunan Jiang Research Data Analyst at Google Meng Li Senior Data Scientist at C3 AI Xinyu Li Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford University Torpong (Tor) Nitayanont Applied Scientist at Amazon Yuhang Wu…

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Powering Change in Tech and Energy

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A Conversation with Marc Oman PhD ’03 Marc Oman, BS ‘03 IEOR, has followed a winding path to impactful leadership in tech and energy, culminating in his current role as Principal, Energy & Infrastructure, at Google. Yet, as he shares, there was no master plan guiding him—just a commitment to curiosity, hard work, and a…

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Job Market Placements for Our 2024 Graduating Doctoral Students

Job Market Placements for Our 2024 Graduating Doctoral Students Ilgin Dogan Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations Management, INSEAD Mo Liu Assistant Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tomás Valencia Zuluaga Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tor Nitayanont Applied Scientist at Amazon

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Berkeley IEOR to Honor Tony Xu with Inaugural Alumni Achievement Award

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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…

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UC Berkeley Hosts Bay Area Decision Science Summit and MAnalytics x Google Case Competition

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On March 1, 2025, UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) hosted two flagship events—the Bay Area Decision Science Summit (BADSS) and the MAnalytics x Google Case Competition—bringing together top students and industry experts to tackle real-world analytics challenges. Now in its fourth year, BADSS welcomed student teams from UC Berkeley, Stanford,…

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Flying Hope: How Drones are Transforming Healthcare in Africa

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At a remote health facility near Ghana’s northern border with Burkina Faso, a drone descends from the sky, delivering a small box of life-saving medicine. Children race to retrieve the package, carrying it eagerly to a nurse. This isn’t just a delivery—it’s a lifeline. For Pablo Piñeiro Cruz, a UC Berkeley IEOR Master of Science…

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