IEOR Impact
Op-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 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 MoreOp-Ed: “Publish or Perish” in the Age of AI: Is Research Integrity at Risk?
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). Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a tool for academic research. It can draft abstracts, summarize papers, suggest…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR Launches Summer Machine Learning and AI Research Program for High School Students
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly central to industries ranging from finance to health care, understanding how AI systems work is becoming an important skill for the next generation of students and innovators. To help introduce these concepts early, the UC Berkeley Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research is launching a new summer program designed…
Read MoreUC Berkeley professor flips the script on classroom AI
PupilBot pilot applies learning science to rethink how AI fits into undergraduate education As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in higher education, faculty in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research are examining how these tools can be integrated into undergraduate courses in ways that reinforce — rather than replace — student learning. Assistant…
Read MoreThe Optileague: 5 IEOR-Powered Superheroes
In this feature, Class of 2026 UC Berkeley undergraduate Henry Collins shares how IEOR concepts—stochastic models, optimization, automation, data science, and creative design—become superpowers when imagined through the lens of five heroic figures. Stochasticism: The Randomizer Born in a quantum lab during a failed particle entanglement experiment, Stochasticism emerged with a mind attuned to uncertainty.…
Read MoreIn Her Words: Professor Xin Guo, UC Berkeley IEOR’s New Chair, on Growth, Community and Discovery
In a wide-ranging Q&A, the new chair of UC Berkeley IEOR discusses leadership, the evolving role of IEOR in today’s rapidly evolving landscape, and the opportunities ahead for the UC Berkeley community Q: What does leadership mean to you in an academic context, especially within a field as dynamic as industrial engineering and operations research?…
Read MoreOn Sustainability, Scholarship and Leadership: Q&A with Alum and INFORMS President-Elect Wedad Jasmine Elmaghraby
Wedad Jasmine Elmaghraby examines how markets, incentives and human behavior intersect — from electricity and procurement auctions to retail supply chains and sustainability in the apparel industry. Her interdisciplinary approach, shaped at UC Berkeley, blends theory, data and real-world practice. A Class of 1998 alum and a leader at the University of Maryland, she was…
Read MoreThe Strategy of Waiting
Whether it is a ridesharing driver seeking a fare at a crowded airport or a patient hoping for a life-saving organ, modern life depends on queues and mechanisms that match people with limited, time-sensitive resources. Queueing theory, one of the earliest pillars of industrial engineering and operations research, began in the early 20th century with…
Read MoreThe AI Supply Chain Whisperer
When Anthony Noguera arrived at UC Berkeley in the 1990s, he could not have foreseen that his graduate studies in industrial engineering and operations research would one day take him all over the world and allow him to redefine how global supply chains operate. After more than two decades at NVIDIA, Anthony is harnessing the…
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