Press Releases
Ethan Lam B.S. ’25 Wins Best Decentralized App Award at TreeHacks 2024
During Stanford’s premier hackathon TreeHacks 2024, Ethan Lam, a third-year Berkeley IEOR student, and his team won the Best Decentralized App Award on the Ava Labs sponsor track. Their project, zKnowledge Base,…
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…
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,…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2024 Jengyee Prize – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Announcing the 2024 Jengyee Prize — Leadership for a Better World Jengyee Liang ’05 Attention all Berkeley undergraduates! The 2024 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World — is…
Read MoreRajan Udwani Receives NSF Career Award
Berkeley IEOR Assistant Professor Rajan Udwani has won the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. The CAREER award is the NSF’s most prestigious award given…
Read MoreOpen Recruitment: Lecturer Pool at Berkeley IEOR
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley is actively building a talented pool of temporary part-time instructors to teach courses in the department.…
Read MoreKen Goldberg Isn’t Scared of Artificial Intelligence
Robots Can’t make Art. Or Can They? Image Credits: Ken Goldberg / Illustration by Mark Gettys with Midjourney Robots can do a great many things, but they can’t make art.…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Embarks on Second Year of Partnership with KONE
Earlier this month, Berkeley IEOR welcomed KONE, a global engineering company focused on innovating elevator and escalator manufacturing, to our campus. KONE, a recognized industry leader, consistently ranks among the…
Read MoreProfessor Ken Goldberg partners with pre-seed and early-stage venture capital fund
Professor Ken Goldberg partners with pre-seed and early-stage venture capital fund Image Credits: nothjc / Getty Images The House Fund, the pre-seed and early-stage venture capital fund focused on UC Berkeley startups, specifically…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR’s Abhigyan Biswas Shines with NASA-backed Startup, Helio 8, at TechCrunch Disrupt
Berkeley IEOR senior and co-founder of Helio 8, Abhigyan Biswas, stood out at last month’s TechCrunch Disrupt convention in San Francisco. His startup, backed by NASA, focuses on pioneering food…
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