Research
Berkeley IEOR Welcomes New Department Chair Professor Xin Guo
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Xin Guo as Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley. A Berkeley IEOR faculty member…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Honors Professor Alper Atamturk for His Leadership as Department Chair
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley (Berkeley IEOR) extends its gratitude to Professor Alper Atamturk for his exemplary leadership and dedicated service as department chair…
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…
Read MoreUC Berkeley Researchers Offer a Smarter Way to Price With Stability and Impact in Mind
With inflation, tariffs, and shifting consumer habits, setting the right price has never been more complicated or more crucial. But new research from UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Chiwei Yan Awarded NSF EAGER Grant to Advance Research on Autonomous Mobility
Berkeley IEOR Assistant Professor Chiwei Yan has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to support his project, State-Aware Demand Control to Facilitate Shared…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Researchers Named Finalists at American Control Conference
Berkeley lEOR PhD student Jihun Kim and Professor Javad Lavaei have been named finalists at the American Control Conference (ACC), a premier annual gathering of researchers and practitioners advancing the…
Read MoreZeyu Zheng Receives Peter D. Welch Early Career Award
Zeyu Zheng has been honored with the inaugural Peter D. Welch Early Career Award by the INFORMS Simulation Society (I-SIM). This award recognizes early-career researchers for their exceptional contributions to…
Read MoreAncient Wisdom: Exploring the Intersection of AI, Art, and Nature
The cover of the winter 2025 edition of Berkeley IEOR Magazine showcases artwork from Ancient Wisdom: Trees, Time, and Technology, an exhibition by Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain currently on…
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…
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…
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