Department Announcements
Berkeley IEOR Honors Professor Alper Atamturk for His Leadership as Department Chair
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley (Berkeley IEOR) extends its gratitude to Professor Alper Atamturk for his exemplary leadership and dedicated service as department chair from January 1, 2021, to June 30, 2025. Over his 4.5-year tenure, Professor Atamturk guided the department through a period marked by both extraordinary challenges…
Read MoreJob 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
Read MoreNew Endowed Professorship to Support Rising Faculty Talent in Berkeley IEOR
The UC Berkeley Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research is pleased to announce the creation of The Robert and Catherine Cliff Professorship in IEOR. Established through a generous gift from Bob Cliff (PhD ’71) and his spouse Catherine, this professorship will support an early-career faculty member in the department, helping launch the next generation…
Read MoreUC Berkeley Researchers Win Top Honors at World’s Leading Robotics Conference
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley has received the Best Paper Award on Robot Learning at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), considered the world’s premier conference in robotics and automation. The event was held in Atlanta 19-23 May. The award went to UC Berkeley IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg, his…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Students Bring Machine Learning to Local High Schoolers
This spring, a team of UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) students partnered with the Dado and Maria Banatao Center for Global Learning and Outreach from Berkeley Engineering (GLOBE) to launch an innovative course introducing Bay Area high school students to the fundamentals of machine learning. The course was conceived by Shreejal Luitel…
Read MoreUC Berkeley Researchers Offer a Smarter Way to Price With Stability and Impact in Mind
With inflation, tariffs, and shifting consumer habits, setting the right price has never been more complicated or more crucial. But new research from UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research suggests that simplicity might be the key to navigating today’s complex markets. In a recent study, Associate Professor Javad Lavaei, Professor Emeritus Max…
Read MoreIn Memoriam: Richard E. Barlow (1931–2024)
Pioneering Reliability Theorist, Beloved Berkeley Professor, and Mentor Richard Eugene “Dick” Barlow, an esteemed emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a pioneering figure in reliability engineering, has passed away. Born on January 12, 1931, in Galesburg, Illinois, Barlow’s influential work has left an enduring mark on industrial engineering, operations research, mathematics, and…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR Honors Alum Tony Xu during Community Celebration Event
On Wednesday, April 30, the UC Berkeley Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Berkeley IEOR) hosted its 2025 Community Celebration & Alumni Achievement Ceremony, bringing together alumni, faculty, students, and friends for an evening of recognition and reflection at the Cal Alumni House.
Read MoreAssistant Professor Chiwei Yan Awarded NSF EAGER Grant to Advance Research on Autonomous Mobility
Berkeley IEOR Assistant Professor Chiwei Yan has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to support his project, State-Aware Demand Control to Facilitate Shared Use of Autonomous Mobility. The project explores new models and algorithms to promote ride-pooling and shared use in emerging autonomous mobility systems. By leveraging real-time…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR ranked No. 3 grad IEOR program in the nation by U.S. News
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley has been ranked the No. 3 best IEOR graduate program in the nation, tied with Northwestern University and Purdue University, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the country’s top graduate programs. Berkeley Engineering remains the third best graduate engineering…
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