Research
UC 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 Operations Research suggests that simplicity might be the key to navigating today’s complex markets. In a recent study, Associate Professor Javad Lavaei, Professor Emeritus Max…
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 Use of Autonomous Mobility. The project explores new models and algorithms to promote ride-pooling and shared use in emerging autonomous mobility systems. By leveraging real-time…
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 field of control systems engineering. Their paper, “Prevailing Against Adversarial Noncentral Disturbances: Exact Recovery of Linear Systems with the l1-Norm Estimator,” is among the top…
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 the field of simulation. Zheng received the award at the December 2024 Winter Simulation Conference, where he and his co-authors also won the Best Theoretical…
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 view at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles through March 2, 2025. Part of the Getty Museum’s city-wide Pacific Standard Time quadrennial, the exhibit examines…
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 in Orlando, Florida. Their award-winning paper, Enhancing Language Models with Both Human and Artificial Intelligence Feedback Data, explores innovative methods to improve AI performance through…
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 constraints. For example, training an AI system to detect early signs of cancer in medical scans relies on radiologists to verify predictions and provide annotations.…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei Delivers Keynote Address at IEEE ISSE 2024
Professor Javad Lavaei delivered a keynote address at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE), held in Italy this October. The annual event convenes experts to discuss advancements in systems engineering, a field that spans multiple disciplines and focuses on the development and management of complex systems. In his keynote, titled “Learning of…
Read MoreRobots could help close surgeons’ skill gaps and improve patient outcomes
by Rachel Level, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society Robots could soon play a larger role in surgery thanks to recent AI developments, experts said in a new Science Robotics paper published today. Advances in generative AI and other areas could enable robots to assist human surgeons during certain tasks that require significant dexterity…
Read MoreNavigating High-Tech Ethics: Berkeley’s Changemaker Course Challenges Future Innovators
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Professor Lee Fleming’s course, “Ethical and Effective Entrepreneurship in High Tech,” part of the UC Berkeley Changemaker® program, engages students in rigorous debates and case studies that probe the ethical and strategic dilemmas facing today’s business leaders. Each class centers on a distinct case that invites students to engage with high-stakes issues, from intellectual property…
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