
October 2020
10/15: Innovation-X Roundtable – Touchless Society
The goal of the Innovation-X Roundtable series is to help industry adapt at this critical time. How can companies innovate to create the biggest impact for industry and society now and in the future? From these initial discussions, will emerge Discovery Projects, where we will leverage the resources of UC Berkeley faculty and students to create innovative solutions with Network members that guide the future of industry. Register
Find out more »10/19: John Birge – Spatial Price Integration in Commodity Markets with Capacitated Transportation Networks
Abstract: Spatial price integration is extensively studied in commodity markets as a means of examining the degree of integration between regions of a geographically diverse market. In many markets, the market is bound together by a well-defined transportation network, such as the network of pipelines in oil and gas markets. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between price integration, i.e. the distribution of prices across geographically distinct locations in the market, and the features of the underlying transportation network.…
Find out more »10/26: Noah Gans – Overbooking with Endogenous Demand
Abstract: Using airlines as a backdrop, we study optimal overbooking policies with endogenous customer demand, when customers internalize their expected cost of being bumped. We first consider the traditional setting in which compensation for bumped passengers is fixed and booking limits are the airline's only form of control. We provide sufficient conditions under which demand endogeneity leads to lower overbooking limits in this case. We then consider the broader problem of joint control of ticket price, bumping compensation, and booking…
Find out more »10/29: Innovation-X Roundtable – Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
The goal of the Innovation-X Roundtable series is to help industry adapt at this critical time. How can companies innovate to create the biggest impact for industry and society now and in the future? From these initial discussions, will emerge Discovery Projects, where we will leverage the resources of UC Berkeley faculty and students to create innovative solutions with Network members that guide the future of industry. Register
Find out more »November 2020
11/2: Jianqing Fan – Analysis of Deep Q-Learning
Abstract: Despite the great empirical success of deep reinforcement learning, its theoretical foundation is less well understood. In this work, we make the first attempt to theoretically understand the deep Q-network (DQN) algorithm from both algorithmic and statistical perspectives. Specifically, we focus on a slight simplification of DQN that fully captures its key features. Under mild assumptions, we establish the algorithmic and statistical rates of convergence for the action-value functions of the iterative policy sequence obtained by DQN. In particular,…
Find out more »11/04: Information Session for Prospective IEOR MS & PhD Students
Learn more about the Berkeley IEOR MS & PhD Programs Interested in learning more about the University of California, Berkeley IEOR PhD and MS programs? At this information session, Professor Alper Atamturk will give a brief overview of the program, its curriculum, and the diverse career possibilities within the field. .tribe-events-cal-links {display: none !important;}
Find out more »11/12: Innovation-X Roundtable – Future of Retail
The goal of the Innovation-X Roundtable series is to help industry adapt at this critical time. How can companies innovate to create the biggest impact for industry and society now and in the future? From these initial discussions, will emerge Discovery Projects, where we will leverage the resources of UC Berkeley faculty and students to create innovative solutions with Network members that guide the future of industry. Register
Find out more »Information Session for Prospective Undergraduate Students
Learn more about the undergraduate program B.S. program in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley! Prospective students (from high school or transfers) are welcome to join us to learn about the program and get their questions answered. At the information session, Berkeley IEOR Professor Daniel Pirutinsky will give a brief overview of the program and answer student questions. There will also be a panel with current students who will give their perspective.…
Find out more »11/16: Luyi Yang – To Brush or Not to Brush: Product Rankings, Consumer Search and Fake Orders
Title: To Brush or Not to Brush: Product Rankings, Consumer Search and Fake Orders Abstract: “Brushing” — the practice of online merchants placing fake orders of their own products on e-commerce platforms — has recently received widespread public attention. On the one hand, brushing enables merchants to boost their rankings in search results, because products with higher sales volume are often ranked higher. On the other hand, rankings matter because search frictions faced by consumers narrow their attention to only…
Find out more »11/30: Jamol Pender – Beyond Safety Drivers: Staffing a Teleoperations System for Autonomous Vehicles
Abstract: Driverless vehicles promise a host of societal benefits including dramatically improved safety, increased accessibility, greater productivity, and higher quality of life. As this new technology approaches widespread deployment, both industry and government are making provisions for teleoperations systems, in which remote human agents provide assistance to driverless vehicles. This assistance can involve real-time remote operation and even ahead-of-time input via human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence systems. In this talk, we address the problem of staffing such a remote support center. Our…
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