Research
Alper 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 MoreProfessor Daniel Pirutinsky joins 2023 NextProf Nexus Workshop to advance diversity in academia
Last month, Daniel Pirutinsky, Assistant Teaching Professor in Berkeley’s IEOR department, served as a panelist at the 2023 NextProf Nexus Future Faculty Workshop, hosted at Georgia Tech University in collaboration…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei Secures NSF Grant to Advance Safety in Power Systems
Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei, in partnership with his former postdoctoral scholar, now Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, Ming Jin, has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the National Science…
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 MoreDepartment Welcomes Two New Faculty
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research is pleased to welcome two new faculty members, Chiwei Yan and Ying Cui this fall. Cui and Yan are engaged in innovative…
Read MoreKen Goldberg: Let’s embrace the creative possibilities of AI
By Ken Goldberg, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley Imagine you’re practicing with a band and someone…
Read MoreProfessor Robert Leachman Retires from UC Berkeley after an Extraordinary Career in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
After a career spanning over four decades, Berkeley IEOR Professor Robert Leachman has announced his retirement. Professor Leachman’s significant contributions to academia and industry leave a remarkable legacy of research,…
Read MoreChancellor Carol T. Christ shines spotlight on pioneering AI Research happening at UC Berkeley
In a recent op-ed, Chancellor Carol T. Christ shed light on the vast contributions of UC Berkeley to the ever-evolving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the article, Christ highlights…
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