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The Hidden Social Mission Driving This Cal Alumna’s Trending Toy Startup
Last week, there was an unusual sight in UC Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering 185 course: stuffed animals. The toys, called Animoodles, put an innovative twist on the traditional plushie. As students passed them around the class, they found that hidden magnets allowed…
How Flight Simulation Tech Could Help Turn Robots Into Surgeons
While the use of robots in surgery has come a long way with the advent of the da Vinci Surgical System. However, current technology still requires a human mind to operate successfully. The most difficult aspect of building a self…
IEOR Graduate Students Creates New Exercise App Using Machine Learning
IEOR graduate students Mo Zhou and Yonatan Mintz are addressing exercise commitment issues with a new app that uses machine learning to adjust goals on a daily basis. Each New Year around 20% of Americans vow to lose weight, eat healthier, or exercise more. However, for…
2018 Jengyee Prize Announced – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Attention undergraduates! The 2018 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…
Alum Gives Back By Supporting STEAM In Local Schools
After retirement, Dr. Paul Wing (IEOR PhD ’71) was worried that without the right education children would be missing out on scientific and technological discoveries in “this amazing period of scientific advancements,” so he decided to take action to be sure…
Prof. Grigas Receives NSF CRII Award To Improve Machine Learning Methods
IEOR professor Paul Grigas was recently awarded the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant in the amount of $175,000 to investigate large-scale optimization methods and develop algorithms to improve scalability and accuracy with large datasets.…
How To Build A Viral App: TBH Founder Gives Startup Advice At UC Berkeley
The night before Nikita Bier launched his app TBH, he was on the phone with his lawyer, asking how to liquidate a business. About three months later, more than 5 million people had downloaded his app and Facebook was acquiring…
Prof. Oren Video Interview With INFORMS History And Traditions
IEOR Professor Shmuel Oren was recently interviewed by Dr. Ramteen Sioshanshi, professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, presented by INFORMS as part of the History and Traditions series.
IEOR PhD Student Chosen As Finalist At American Control Conference (ACC)
IEOR PhD student Salar Fattahi has been chosen as one of five finalists for the prestigious American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award for his paper titled “Closed-Form Solution and Sparsity Path for Inverse Covariance Estimation Problem.” The research was developed under the supervision…