Press Releases
Announcing the 2022 Jengyee Prize – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Attention all Berkeley undergraduates! The 2022 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World — is now accepting applications. The $2,000 prize is awarded annually and is open to all undergraduate students…
Read MoreIEOR Welcomes Carolyn Yee to its Advisory Board
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is excited to welcome alumna Carolyn Yee to the IEOR Advisory Board. “I am honored to join the IEOR Advisory Board to…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR launches Master of Analytics degree program to help address shortage of workers with data and analytics skills
UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) has just launched Berkeley Master of Analytics, a new professional degree program in the College of Engineering that will equip…
Read MoreIEOR to play a leading role in new National Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization
Shmuel Oren Awarded 2021 Harold Hotelling Medal
Berkeley IEOR is pleased to announce that the INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) has awarded Professor Shmuel Oren as the recipient of the 2021 Harold…
Read MoreIEOR Department Benefits from a New $1 Million Endowment to Support Graduate Students
IEOR alumni and friends have made 479 contributions to the IEOR Graduate Student Support Fund since it was established in 2009 by professor and alumna, Rhonda Righter, along with IEOR…
Read MoreKatta G. Murty Best Paper Prize awarded to Alfonso Lobos
Alfonso Lobos was named as the 2021 recipient of the Katta G. Murty Best Paper Prize. The award faculty committee selected Alfonso for his phenomenal work on “Optimal Bidding, Allocation,…
Read MoreIEOR Alum Receives 2021 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award
Associate Professor at Belgium’s Universit´e catholique de Louvain, Anthony Papavasiliou, Berkeley IEOR PhD ’11, has been awarded the prestigious Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award for 2021. One of six other…
Read MoreShmuel Oren Awarded IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award
The IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) has awarded Professor Shmuel Oren the 2021 IEEE PES Outstanding PowerEngineering Educator Award for his contributions to mentorship and education on the design…
Read MoreThe IEOR Department Welcomes Thibaut Mastrolia as a new Assistant Professor
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is excited to announce that Thibaut Mastrolia will be joining the department as a new assistant professor starting in July 2021. Thibaut…
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