UC Berkeley IEOR at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting

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UC Berkeley IEOR faculty, students, and alumni brought home several awards at the 2025 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting. Below is a list of their accomplishments: Renato D.C. Monteiro, a UC Berkeley IEOR PhD alum (Class of 1988) and Coca-Cola Foundation Chair Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School…

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Are we truly on the verge of the humanoid robot revolution?

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By Kara Manke In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. August 27, 2025 AI chatbots have advanced rapidly over the past few years, so much so that people are now using them as personal assistants, customer service representatives and even…

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UC Berkeley Researchers Offer a Smarter Way to Price With Stability and Impact in Mind

UC 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…

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Assistant Professor Chiwei Yan Awarded NSF EAGER Grant to Advance Research on Autonomous Mobility

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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…

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Berkeley IEOR Researchers Named Finalists at American Control Conference

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Berkeley lEOR PhD student Jihun Kim and Professor Javad Lavaei have been named finalists at the American Control Conference (ACC), a premier annual gathering of researchers and practitioners advancing the field of control systems engineering. Their paper, “Prevailing Against Adversarial Noncentral Disturbances: Exact Recovery of Linear Systems with the l1-Norm Estimator,” is among the top…

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Berkeley IEOR PhD students Win Best Theoretical Paper Award

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Berkeley IEOR PhD students Haoting Zhang, Jinghai He, and recent alum Jingxu Xu (PhD ’24) were honored with the Best Theoretical Paper Award at the 2024 Winter Simulation Conference held in Orlando, Florida. Their award-winning paper, Enhancing Language Models with Both Human and Artificial Intelligence Feedback Data, explores innovative methods to improve AI performance through…

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Training Smarter AI: New Research Integrates Human and Machine Feedback

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AI models rely heavily on feedback to refine their outputs and meet user needs. While human feedback is highly effective, it is often expensive, time-intensive, and limited by data privacy constraints. For example, training an AI system to detect early signs of cancer in medical scans relies on radiologists to verify predictions and provide annotations.…

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