Doctoral Student Awards
Katta G. Murty Best Paper Prize awarded to Matt Olfat
Matt Olfat was named as the 2020 recipient of the Katta G. Murty Best Paper Prize. The award faculty committee selected Matt for his phenomenal work on “Optimization Hierarchy for Fair…
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Katta Murty Best Paper Prize awarded to Junyu Cao
The Katta G. Murty Best Paper Prize is awarded to Junyu Cao for her outstanding paper “Sequential Choice Bandits: Learning with Marketing Fatigue.” The Katta G. Murty Prize, established in…
Read MoreJunyu Cao to receive 2019 IBM PhD Fellowship
IEOR PhD candidate Junyu Cao has been selected to receive the highly-competitive 2019 IBM PhD Fellowship, a two-year program that is awarded worldwide to PhD students conducting research in areas…
Read MoreIEOR research selected as finalist for 2019 American Control Conference
The paper titled “On the Exponential Number of Connected Components for the Feasible Set of Optimal Decentralized Control Problems” by IEOR PhD student Han Feng and associate professor Javad Lavaei…
Read MoreLobos wins best student paper award at AdKDD workshop
IEOR PhD student and Paul Grigas’s advisee Alfonso Lobos has won the best student paper award at the 2018 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) conference in London for his paper “Optimal Bidding,…
Read MoreFairness in machine learning paper wins INFORMS 2018 Data Mining & Decision Analytics award
IEOR PhD student Matt Olfat’s and assistant professor Anil Aswani’s paper “Spectral algorithms for computing fair support vector machines” won the INFORMS 2018 Data Mining & Decision Analytics Workshop best…
Read MoreBerkeley engineers win 2018 best paper in data mining
IEOR PhD student Salar Fattahi and EECS assistant professor in residence Somayeh Sojoudi have won the INFORMS 2018 Data Mining Best Paper Award. Fattahi and Sojoudi presented their paper “Graphical Lasso and Thresholding:…
Read MoreIEOR PhD Student Chosen As Finalist At American Control Conference (ACC)
IEOR PhD student Salar Fattahi has been chosen as one of five finalists for the prestigious American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award for his paper titled “Closed-Form Solution and Sparsity Path for…
Read MoreMark Velednitsky Finds Short Proof For Traveling Salesman Problem
IEOR graduate student Mark Velednitsky has reduced a twenty-eight page proof for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) to just a few lines. Velednitsky’s proof titled “Short combinatorial proof that the…
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