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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…
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 Researchers Named Finalists at American Control Conference
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…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR PhD students Win Best Theoretical Paper Award
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…
Read MoreTraining Smarter AI: New Research Integrates Human and Machine Feedback
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.…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Shines at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Berkeley IEOR faculty and students brought home several awards and honors at The 2024 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting. Below is a list of notable achievements: Shuo Sun, PhD candidate, was named a finalist for the Revenue Management and Pricing Section’s 2024 Jeff McGill Student Paper Award for her…
Read MoreProfessor Dorit Hochbaum Honored with 2024 Khachiyan Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Optimization
Professor Dorit S. Hochbaum of UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Berkeley IEOR) has been awarded the 2024 Khachiyan Prize by the INFORMS Optimization Society. This award recognizes her extensive contributions to optimization, including her work on the design and analysis of algorithms and their applications across various domains. The Khachiyan Prize…
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 MoreAI and Optimization Retreat: Exploring the Future of Automated Decision-Making
In April, Berkeley IEOR hosted a day-long conference on AI and optimization, featuring panels on sequential decision-making, ethical AI, transportation electrification, and future AI trends, with working groups, student poster sessions, and networking opportunities. Established in 2021 with a $20 million NSF grant, the AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT) includes UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, USC, UCSD,…
Read MoreHaixiang Zhang Receives 2024 Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics
Haixiang Zhang (https://zhanghxpku.github.io/), a UC Berkeley graduate student, has been honored with the 2024 Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics. Established in 1966, this award recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding research in applied mathematics. Zhang, advised by Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei, has shown substantial achievements in the field. He graduated from UC Berkeley…
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