Ying Cui
Ying Cui named 2026 Hellman Fellow
The fellowship will support Cui’s work on computational methods for trustworthy, risk-aware digital twins that improve the safety and resilience of critical infrastructure. Ying Cui, an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, has been named a 2026 Hellman Fellow. The fellowship recognizes promising early-career faculty and provides a $60,000…
Read MoreYing Cui Receives NSF CAREER Award for Optimization Research
Ying Cui, an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley, has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER Award is among the NSF’s most prestigious honors for early-career faculty. It will provide approximately $631,492 over five years to…
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.…
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