Faculty Awards
Berkeley 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 the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the FBF is committed to advancing top-tier research, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, and fostering new partnerships between France and the…
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 Prior-Free Online Resource Allocation.” The Google Research Scholar Program supports research at institutions worldwide by providing unrestricted funding to promising early-career professors doing exceptional work…
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 selection committee, which included two previous INFORMS presidents. The prestigious award is presented each year during the INFORMS national meeting to a person who has…
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 management sciences and have made significant contributions to the advancement of OR/MS over a period of time. Professor Leachman was awarded for notable contributions to…
Read MoreProf. Rajan Udwani Wins INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition
Berkeley IEOR Professor Rajan Udwani has been selected as winner of the 2021 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition for his work titled Submodular Order Functions and Assortment Optimization. Udwani was selected for his work with submodular order functions and demonstrating the power of submodular order functions. As part of the paper competition,…
Read MoreShmuel Oren Awarded 2021 Harold Hotelling Medal
Berkeley IEOR is pleased to announce that the INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) has awarded Professor Shmuel Oren as the recipient of the 2021 Harold Hotelling Medal. The Harold Hotelling Medal is a competitive award that recognizes the lifetime achievements of INFORMS scholars who have made sustained and exceptional contributions…
Read MoreIkhlaq Sidhu receives Best Paper Award at ICE-IEEE 2021
SCET Faculty Director, Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu, has just received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Engineering, Technology, Innovation (ICE) 2021 for his paper A Generalized Framework for Algorithm Based Team Formation. Ikhlaq received the award along with his collaborators, Sudarshan Gopalakrishnan (’21 B.S. EECS) and Rajarathnam Balakrishnan (’20 M.Eng. IEOR). More information…
Read MoreShmuel Oren Awarded IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award
The IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) has awarded Professor Shmuel Oren the 2021 IEEE PES Outstanding PowerEngineering Educator Award for his contributions to mentorship and education on the design and operation of electricity markets. The Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award was established to recognize outstanding contributions and leadership in power engineering education. Selected as…
Read MoreIkhlaq Sidhu receives Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award
SCET Faculty Director & Chief Scientist, Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu has been awarded the University of California, Berkeley’s Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award for demonstrating his commitment to students and excellence in teaching, even under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR research selected as Best Paper Finalist at the 2021 American Control Conference
The work of IEOR PhD student Yuhao Ding, IEOR Associate Professor Javad Lavaei, and EECS Professor Murat Arcak has been selected as a finalist for the Best Student Paper award at the 2021 American Control Conference (ACC). The work is titled “Escaping spurious local minimum trajectories in online time-varying nonconvex optimization” and a copy of…
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