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Vishrut Rana (BSc. ’22 IEOR) Commencement Address
Vishrut Rana gave the following speech to IEOR graduates during the IEOR Reception on Tuesday: Thank you to all faculty, staff, family, and friends that are here today. You’ve played an instrumental role in getting us to where we are, and your presence means so much to each one of us! To my fellow graduates,…
Read MoreCelebrating the Class of 2022
This week, UC Berkeley celebrated campus-wide commencement ceremonies for the first time in three years. Excitement was in the air as the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) graduated 56 BSc, 5 BA ORMS, 124 M.Eng., 4 Dual Master of Engineering and Master of Business Administration, 10 MSc, and 5 PhD students. On May 17, the Class of 2022 bachelor’s…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2022 Jengyee Prize – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Attention all Berkeley undergraduates! The 2022 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World — is now accepting applications. The $2,000 prize is awarded annually and is open to all undergraduate students with a sophomore or higher standing, regardless of gender, race, creed, or national origin. The Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World aims to…
Read MoreOlivier Bouard, MEng ’22 (IEOR): “I chose Berkeley to meet people who want to change the world”
How to Engage Students’ Brains
Five Principles of Teaching from Daniel Pirutinsky, IEOR’s new assistant teaching professor The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research was pleased to welcome Daniel Pirutinsky as its new assistant teaching professor in Fall 2020. Daniel’s primary focus is to educate IEOR’s rapidly growing student population, and develop effective teaching techniques to help students succeed.…
Read MoreInterview with Professor Rajan Udwani
Rajan is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at UC Berkeley. He received my PhD in Operations Research from MIT. Before joining UC berkeley, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the IEOR department at Columbia University. He also received a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay. Tell us a…
Read MoreInterview with Professor Barna Saha
Before joining the Berkeley IEOR department, Professor Barna Saha was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2014-2019. Before UMass, she was a Research Scientist at AT&T Shannon Laboratories, New Jersey. She spent four years (2007-2011) at the University of Maryland College Park from where she received her Ph.D.…
Read MoreApplying IEOR to Amazon’s Middle Mile Logistics
Phil Kaminsky, Earl J. Isaac Professor in the Science and Analysis of Decision Making at Berkeley IEOR, has been on industrial leave at Amazon since July 2019. Phil has been working as a principal research scientist with the middle-mile logistics team which oversees the transportation of goods from a factory or warehouse to a distribution…
Read MoreUC Berkeley IEOR Students Earn Top Prize in IISE-IAB Video Competition
IEOR students and members of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) at Berkeley Duncan Barcelona, Maya Sprouse, Samantha Tito and Alexandra Novales, earned first place at the annual IISE Industry Advisory Board YouTube Video Contest. The winning video will be used to promote the industrial and systems engineering profession to high school students,…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Recipients of the Cliff Applied Research Grant
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is pleased to announce that Professors Anil Aswani and Candace Yano will be the recipients of the 2021 Cliff Applied Research Grant. The purpose of the grant program is to support IEOR faculty to conduct applied research focused on impact in society or industry. Professor Aswani’s project…
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