Research
Professor 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, Davis, Irvine, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara). This initiative, dedicated to honoring the legacy of Ann S. Bowers and Robert N. Noyce, is committed to…
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 with UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan. This event is part of a nationwide effort to diversify the next generation of academic leaders in…
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 Foundation for their pioneering project, “Safety under Distributional Shift in Learning-Enabled Power Systems.” This project is poised to transform the design of learning-enabled, safety-critical systems,…
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 Imbalanced Biomedical Data,” for her work aimed at developing new machine learning tools to address the challenge of learning from imbalanced biomedical data, setting the…
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 research to address emerging challenges in various fields, including transportation, public health policy, online platforms, and foundations of data science. Chiwei Yan received his Ph.D.…
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 walks in with a new instrument. You and your pals will probably want to check it out, see how you might jam with it. You…
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, mentorship, and consulting expertise. As we bid farewell to this influential figure, his pioneering work and exceptional achievements will continue to inspire future generations of…
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 the pioneering endeavors of Berkeley IEOR Distinguished Professor, Ken Goldberg, and his unwavering and interdisciplinary commitment to comprehensively exploring the depths of AI. Recently, Professor…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Students Receive Top Honors at UC Leads Symposium
Berkeley IEOR undergraduate students Isa Demetz and Santiago Karam Padilla won top honors for their research posters during last weekend’s UC Leads Research & Leadership Symposium. The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program is designed to engage and educate California’s future leaders by preparing promising students for advanced education in…
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…
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