Faculty Awards
Rajan 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 MoreINFORMS 2023 Recap
Thanks to all who joined us in Phoenix, Arizona! This year, the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting took place in Phoenix, Arizona from October 15th-18th. The meeting featured thousands of presentations…
Read MoreAlper Atamturk Awarded Farkas Prize
IEOR Department Professor and Chair Alper Atamturk has received the 2023 Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society, the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, artificial intelligence,…
Read MoreRhonda Righter Named 2023 INFORMS Fellow
Berkeley IEOR Professor Rhonda Righter has been named a 2023 INFORMS Fellow. The honor is one of the most prestigious in the operations research (OR) profession. As the leading international…
Read MoreProfessor Javad Lavaei Awarded UC Noyce Grant for Research Defending Power Grid from Cyberattacks
Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei and EECS Professor Somayeh Sojoudi have received a $300,000 grant from the UC Noyce Initiative, a collaborative effort involving five University of California campuses (Berkeley,…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Professor Ying Cui Receives NIH Award for Advancing Biomedical Data Learning
Berkeley IEOR professor Ying Cui was recently awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Cancer Institute, titled “SCH: A New Computational Framework for Learning from…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Professor Thibaut Mastrolia Receives Grant for Cybersecurity Research
Berkeley IEOR Professor Thibaut Mastrolia has been awarded a grant from the France-Berkeley Fund (FBF) for his proposal, “Mathematical modeling for cyber-risk insurance.” Established in 1993 through a partnership with…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Professor Rajan Udwani Receives Google Research Scholar Award
Berkeley IEOR Professor Rajan Udwani has been awarded the highly competitive Google Research Scholar award for 2023-24 in recognition of his proposal on algorithms and optimization, titled “Generalized Framework for…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Professor Receives Prestigious INFORMS President’s Award
Berkeley IEOR Professor Candace Yano is 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…
Read MoreRobert Leachman awarded as a 2021 INFORMS Fellow
IEOR Professor Robert Leachman has been named a 2021 INFORMS Fellow. INFORMS Fellows are announced once per year to individuals who demonstrate outstanding lifetime achievement in operations research and the…
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