Doctoral Student Awards
UC Berkeley IEOR-led Team Takes Second Place for Predictive Model Aiming to Improve Rail Safety
UC Berkeley IEOR PhD student Alberto Gennaro and his team are applying data-driven modeling to a problem that directly affects the safety and reliability of railroads: predicting when train wheels are likely to fail. Their project earned second place in the 2025 INFORMS Railway Applications Section Problem Solving Competition, which invites researchers and practioners to…
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 MoreFour Berkeley IEOR PhD Students Receive Outstanding GSI Awards
We are proud to announce that four UC Berkeley IEOR PhD students have been honored with the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award. Grace He, Alberto Gennaro, Shruti Penumatsa, and recent PhD graduate Baturalp Yalcin were recognized for their exceptional contributions to teaching and their commitment to fostering inclusive, engaging, and supportive learning environments.…
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 MoreTransforming Decision-Making with AI: A Shift from Prediction to Optimization in Machine Learning
Amid the surging popularity of AI, companies, organizations, and institutions worldwide are eagerly embracing its transformative potential. Yet, a disparity exists, rooted in the steep costs and extended time frames required for training machine learning models. This challenge is particularly acute in supervised learning—a popular machine learning approach where algorithms learn from labeled datasets. Here,…
Read MoreNew Doctoral Fellowship Supports IEOR Scholars and Honors Rising Star in Operations Research
New Doctoral Fellowship Supports IEOR Scholars and Honors Rising Star in Operations Research Meet Marie Pelagie Elimbi Moudio – a trailblazing Berkeley IEOR Ph.D. student and the inspiration behind The Marie Pelagie Elimbi Moudio Fellowship in IEOR (UC Berkeley photo by Adam Lau) The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) is pleased to…
Read MoreAnna Deza Wins Best Paper at KDIR 2022
Berkeley IEOR PhD student Anna Deza has won the Best Paper Award at KDIR 2022: 14th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval. The paper titled “Safe Screening for Logistics Regression with — Regularization” (co-authored by Professor Alper Atamturk) presents screening rules that safely remove features from logistic regression with ℓ0−ℓ2 regularization before solving…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR at INFORMS 2022
Berkeley IEOR walked away with several awards during the 2022 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting. Professor Candace Yano was the recipient of the 2022 INFORMS President’s Award. The honor was presented by current INFORMS president Radhika Kulkarni, who served as chair of the selection committee, which included two previous…
Read MoreYoon Lee (PhD ’23 IEOR) Wins 2022 Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) Research Grant
IEOR PhD candidate, Yoon Lee (PhD ’23 IEOR) has won the 2022 Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) research grant award for his research addressing inadequate access to clean water in developing countries. Lee’s research project is titled: Local Water Inventory Management for the Developing World, and offers the following abstract: Cities in the developing world…
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