Shmuel Oren
Professor Shmuel Oren Named 2025 IFORS Fellow
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research congratulates Professor Shmuel Oren on being named a 2025 Fellow of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). One of the highest international honors in the field, the IFORS Fellows Award recognizes distinguished individuals for their contributions to international operational research and its global communities. Professor…
Read MoreProfessor Shmuel Oren to deliver Marcel Boiteux Lecture in France for 100th birthday commemoration
UC Berkeley Professor Shmuel Oren has been chosen to deliver the first Marcel Boiteux Lecture at CentralSupélec-Paris-Saclay University in Gif-sur-Yvette, France next month. The lecture, titled “Mobilizing load flexibility to support decarbonization through virtual power plants,” will commemorate the 100th birthday of Dr. Marcel Boiteux, a renowned French economist and mathematician who revolutionized the electricity…
Read MoreProf. Shmuel Oren Reflects on his Collaboration with Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Wilson
On October 12, 2020, Robert B. Wilson was co-awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences along with his long-time collaborator Paul Milgrom “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” Robert Wilson, a Professor Emeritus at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, worked on many research areas throughout his career. These included…
Read MoreProfessor Shmuel Oren to give lecture at Aalto Systems Forum
Professor Shmuel Oren, of the UC Berkeley IEOR department, will be giving a public lecture, “Challenges and Opportunities for OR in Electricity Markets”, on Friday, March 6 at the Aalto System Forum, held at the Aalto University is Espoo, Finland. Aalto System Forum provides a platform for a dialogue between practitioners and researchers, based on…
Read MoreProfessor Shmuel Oren was Key Speaker at First Annual Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture
Professor Shmuel Oren was the key speaker at the first Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture, hosted by EWI Energy Conference, which took place on September 25th at the University of Cologne, Germany. His lecture was titled, “Firming Renewable Power with Demand Response: An End-to-end Aggregator Business Model“. The annual Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture, in memory of…
Read MoreShmuel Oren to be Keynote Speaker for the 2019 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference
Professor Shmuel Oren will be a keynote speaker at the 2019 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference (iSPEC). The iSPEC conference will be held during November 21-23, 2019 in Beijing. This years theme is “Grid Modernization for Energy Revolution.” The IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference 2019 aims at providing an international forum for engineers…
Read MoreShmuel Oren to be Keynote Speaker at 4th Annual Purple Mountain Forum
Prof. Shmuel Oren will be a keynote speaker at the 4th annual Purple Mountain Forum, which will be held on August 17-18 in Nanjing China. The aim of the conference is to provide an international forum for experts to promote technical exchanges and share of expertise in the field of smart grid operation, protection and…
Read MoreFormer students celebrate career of Prof. Oren
On Saturday, February 16, 2019, the Energy and Market Engineering Symposium in Honor of Shmuel Oren was held in the Heyns Room of The Faculty Club on the University of California, Berkeley campus. More than 70 people attended the symposium, which was organized by three of Shmuel’s former Ph.D. students: Ramteen Sioshansi (The Ohio State University), Afzal…
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 awards, and is reserved for individuals “whose contributions go beyond the call of duty and whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence in their fields.”…
Read MoreProf. Oren Video Interview With INFORMS History And Traditions
IEOR Professor Shmuel Oren was recently interviewed by Dr. Ramteen Sioshanshi, professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, presented by INFORMS as part of the History and Traditions series.
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