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Prof. Rajan Udwani Wins INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition
Berkeley IEOR Professor Rajan Udwani has been selected as winner of the 2021 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition for his work titled Submodular Order Functions and Assortment Optimization. Udwani was selected for his work with submodular order…
What is IEOR?
What is IEOR? In this award-winning video, IEOR students explain what industrial engineering & operations research is, how their skills can improve the world, and discuss exciting careers in IEOR. IEOR is the process of inventing and designing ways to…
Berkeley IEOR and Georgia Tech ISYE partner with Kids Teach Tech to inspire underrepresented youth with the power of engineering and data analytics
This summer, Berkeley IEOR, Georgia Tech ISYE, and Kids Teach Tech partnered to deliver The Seth Bonder Camp in Computational and Data Science for Engineering to 5th – 12th grade students. The camp introduced data science and analytics with real…
Ken Goldberg featured on NPR Marketplace Tech on how robots can help with supply chain issues this holiday season
With ongoing shortages of workers, supplies, products and materials, it may be tough for consumers to get their gifts in time for the holiday season. Can new robotic technology developed by Berkeley IEOR and Professor Ken Goldberg help consumers receive…
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…
Interview 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…
Interview 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…
Applying 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…
Humans of Fung: Clément Ruin, MEng ’19 (IEOR)
On growing up in the French Alps, earning an engineering degree at UC Berkeley, and his passion for mentoring