IEOR Impact
Congratulations to the 2024 Jengyee Prize Winner
We are delighted to announce that Emily Meng is this year’s Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World winner. Established in 2010, the Jengyee Prize recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate outstanding leadership, service, and commitment to advancing a better world. Emily exemplifies these qualities through her outstanding leadership and dedication for improving our community,…
Read MoreCyber Risk and Insurance France-Berkeley Conference
The Cyber Risk and Insurance France-Berkeley Conference, co-organized by Berkeley IEOR Professor Thibaut Mastrolia, brought together experts from France and Berkeley to address the systemic threat posed by cyber risk to the global financial and economic system. Sponsored by the France-Berkeley Fund and the project “Mathematical modeling for cyber-risk insurance,” the conference highlighted the urgent…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Professor Candi Yano Shares Insights on Research and Career in ‘Subject To’ YouTube Series
Berkeley IEOR Professor Candi Yano was recently featured in “Subject to,” a YouTube series offering informal conversations with relevant figures in the fields of Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization, and Logistics, hosted by Anand Subramanian, an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. During the episode, Professor Candi Yano discusses her extensive research on…
Read MoreMax Shen and JD.com team win 2024 INFORMS Prize
INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has awarded JD.com, a leading technology and service provider with supply chain at its core, the prestigious 2024 INFORMS Prize for its outstanding use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics to enhance its supply chain efficiency. Leading this effort is Berkeley IEOR Professor Emeritus Max…
Read MoreTeaching it Forward
In June and July 2023, Berkeley IEOR hosted the first in-person Kids Teach Tech (KTT) STEM Summer Camp. Over one hundred youth came to UC Berkeley for a dynamic two-week immersion in STEM education, with additional participants joining virtually from various locations across the country. Berkeley IEOR students Ananya Gupta, Thomas Guzman, and Brooke Soobrian…
Read MoreTransforming the Synthetic Biology Industry Berkeley IEOR Professor Rob Leachman’s Pioneering Benchmarking Study
Photo by Adam Lau Berkeley IEOR Professor Rob Leachman has been awarded a $1 million grant from BioMADE, a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, and 10 synthetic biology companies that are BioMADE members. The grant will fund Professor Leachman’s study titled “Benchmarking Synthetic Biology Product Development,” which seeks to…
Read MoreCelebrating Valentine’s Day with Berkeley IEOR Alums Steve Tai and KC Wu
As a mathematics and chemistry major at Indiana University Bloomington, Kin-Ching Wu, also known as KC, hadn’t initially envisioned pursuing her graduate studies at Berkeley. However, her father urged KC to stay close to her mother, who had recently immigrated from Hong Kong to California. So, she decided to apply to Berkeley almost on a…
Read MoreWatch: Why we don’t have robot butlers yet | Professor Ken Goldberg Delivers Tedx Talk
In this 12-minute TEDx talk, artist and roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are still klutzy and shows some of the surprising things they are starting to learn….We have microwaves, lasers, and cellphones: where are the robots? Computers and AI have advanced significantly, but here is why we still don’t have robots that can do…
Read MoreA Game-Changing Algorithm for Building Better Teams
At the heart of many successful social networks, from community organizations to cutting-edge tech startups, and spanning across schools, hospitals, and research institutions, are cohesive teams working towards common objectives. However, selecting individuals for such teams can present computational challenges. Stepping up to address this challenge is Professor Dorit Hochbaum and her groundbreaking study, “A…
Read MoreAI4OPT In Its Third Year
AI4OPT In Its Third year The Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization is delivering a paradigm shift in automated decision-making September marked the third anniversary of The AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT). Established in 2021 with a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, this visionary institute is a collaborative effort,…
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