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Announcing the 2026 Jengyee Prize — Leadership for a Better World
Announcing the 2026 Jengyee Prize — Leadership for a Better World The 2026 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World is now accepting applications! This year, up to 2 prizes of up to $2000 each, will be awarded. The Jengyee Prize is open to all undergraduate students with a sophomore or higher standing,…
Read MoreUC Berkeley’s New Energy Analytics Course Bridges Data, Engineering and Policy
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley has launched a new graduate course this spring focused on the expanding role of analytics in the global energy sector. Offered as IND ENG 290, Energy Analytics introduces students to how quantitative methods are applied in energy markets, infrastructure planning and system…
Read MoreNo. 1 again: UC Berkeley generates more startups and founders than any other university
Job Market Placements for Our 2025 Graduating Doctoral Students
Dilara Aykanat Applied Scientist at Uber Yunliang (Lawrence) Chen Researcher (Member of Technical Staff) at OpenAI Anna Deza Postdoctoral Fellowship at ISyE Georgia Tech Shunan Jiang Research Data Analyst at Google Meng Li Senior Data Scientist at C3 AI Xinyu Li Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford University Torpong (Tor) Nitayanont Applied Scientist at Amazon Yuhang Wu…
Read MoreJob Market Placements for Our 2024 Graduating Doctoral Students
Job Market Placements for Our 2024 Graduating Doctoral Students Ilgin Dogan Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations Management, INSEAD Mo Liu Assistant Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tomás Valencia Zuluaga Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tor Nitayanont Applied Scientist at Amazon
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 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 MoreMaking the Most of Your Conference Experience with Tips from Four Student Pros
Berkeley IEOR Students Share Tips from WE24 Conference Experience In October, four Berkeley IEOR students—Addie Brandt (BS ’26), Lauren Lee (BS ’26), Grace Qian (BS ’25), and Kelly Tsai (BS ’25)—had the opportunity to attend WE24: Together We Rise, a flagship event hosted by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Addie, Lauren, Grace, and Kelly…
Read MoreNow Hiring: Associate Professor / Professor – Open Field – Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Conception and Development of the Alameda Corridor
By Rob Leachman Construction of new railroad lines in the USA, especially in urban areas, is rare in this day and age. But a Berkeley faculty member and his students were instrumental in making the Alameda Corridor, a 25-mile triple-tracked rail line between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and main-line railroad connections…
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