Faculty Awards
Professor Alper Atamturk is elected to become the next chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society
Professor Alper Atamturk has been elected to become the next chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society. The Optimization Society aims to promote the development and application of optimization methods and…
Read MoreAlper Atamturk named INFORMS Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Alper Atamturk for being named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences at its Annual Meeting in Seattle! INFORMS Fellows are examples of…
Read MoreBarna Saha receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
The White House has just announced that IEOR professor Barna Saha is among the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the…
Read MoreMax Shen Named To Succeed Ken Goldberg As Chair Of IEOR
Professor Zuo-Jun “Max” Shen has just been named to be the next chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) at UC Berkeley. Professor Shen will take over for…
Read MoreProf. Goldberg invited to speak at NSF Engineering Directorate Advisory Board
Professor Goldberg will be speaking at the 2018 Fall Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Advisory committee (AdCom) meeting, sponsored by NSF. Professor Goldberg’s talk is titled “Are Artificial Intelligence and Robots…
Read MoreShmuel Oren awarded Berkeley Citation
IEOR professor of the graduate school Shmuel Oren has just been awarded the Berkeley Citation by Chancellor Carol Christ. The Citation is one of the University of California, Berkeley’s highest…
Read MoreProfessor Candi Yano wins INFORMS Kimball Medal
Professor Candi Yano was awarded the INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal in recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of operations research and the management sciences.…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineers Selected to Modernize the Grid
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has just selected eighteen teams, including two with UC Berkeley Engineering researchers, to participate in the new Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The UC Berkeley team…
Read MoreData-driven operations management paper selected as research competition finalist
IEOR assistant professor Zeyu Zheng, joint with Xiaocheng Li, Yufeng Zheng, and Zhenpeng Zhou, have been selected as finalists for the 2018 MSOM Data Driven Research Competition. Xiaocheng and Zeyu…
Read MoreMax Z. Shen awarded as a 2018 INFORMS Fellow
IEOR Professor Max Shen has been named a 2018 INFORMS Fellow. INFORMS Fellows Awards are announced once per year, and are reserved for researchers that exemplify outstanding lifetime achievement in operations…
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