Department Announcements
Ying Cui named 2026 Hellman Fellow
The fellowship will support Cui’s work on computational methods for trustworthy, risk-aware digital twins that improve the safety and resilience of critical infrastructure. Ying Cui, an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, has been named a 2026 Hellman Fellow. The fellowship recognizes promising early-career faculty and provides a $60,000…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR welcomes new faculty member
Chenyang Zhong joins the department as a new assistant professor. His research develops mathematical and computational methods for stochastic modeling, inference, and optimization, addressing emerging challenges in modern operations research and machine learning. UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) is pleased to welcome Chenyang Zhong as a new assistant professor. Zhong’s…
Read MoreJob Market Placements for Our 2026 Graduating Doctoral Students
Alberto Gennaro Senior associate in Machine Learning at JP Morgan Chase Jinghai He Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma Sukanya Kudva Scientist at Uber’s Ads & Offers Team Jisun Lee Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Tech Joo Seung Lee AI/ML Software Engineer at Google Ziyang Liu Optimization Engineer at Uber Shuo Sun Assistant Professor at…
Read MoreOp-Ed: The New Academic Bargain in the Age of AI
Inside Berkeley IEOR’s emerging classroom responses By Alberto Gennaro (PhD IEOR ’26), Grace He (3rd Year PhD), Ricky Huang (3rd Year PhD), and Jessica Zhao (1st Year PhD). For generations, college has relied on a simple premise: the work students turn in is evidence of their efforts and thinking. Essays show how they argue, problem…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR celebrates Class of 2026 at commencement reception
UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research celebrated the Class of 2026 on Monday, May 18, during its commencement reception and awards ceremony at the Campanile Esplanade. The event honored 315 students who earned degrees across the department’s graduate and undergraduate programs. Graduates gathered with family, friends, faculty and staff to mark the…
Read MoreOp-Ed: Engineering in the Era of Vibe Coding
Part of a new op-ed series featuring IEOR student voices, this piece is a collaboration between Alberto Gennaro (5th Year PhD), Grace He (3rd Year PhD), Ricky Huang (3rd Year PhD), and Jessica Zhao (1st Year PhD). “Vibe coding,” the process of relying on generative AI tools for code-writing, has become the buzz phrase related…
Read MoreYing Cui Receives NSF CAREER Award for Optimization Research
Ying Cui, an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley, has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER Award is among the NSF’s most prestigious honors for early-career faculty. It will provide approximately $631,492 over five years to…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR Ranked No. 2 in the Nation by U.S. News
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at UC Berkeley has advanced to No. 2 among the nation’s best IEOR graduate programs, up one spot from lsat year, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings released April 7. UC Berkeley College of Engineering maintained its No. 3 overall ranking and continues…
Read MoreUC Berkeley researchers tackle bidder collusion in high-stakes auctions
In recent years, economists and regulators have begun examining how artificial intelligence is being used to set prices and bids across a range of markets. In some sectors, including housing, companies rely on automated pricing systems that analyze market conditions and competitors’ data to recommend prices in real time. Supporters argue such tools improve efficiency,…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR Students Engage With AI-Driven Shift in Industrial Engineering
Advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping the field of industrial engineering, shifting its focus from optimizing processes to designing systems that deploy intelligence at scale, said UC Berkeley alum Patrick Tam (B.S. ’99, M.S. ’00 IEOR) Tam, vice president of operational excellence at ServiceNow, delivered keynote remarks at the 2026 Institute of Industrial and Systems…
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