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Max Z. Shen awarded as a 2018 INFORMS Fellow
IEOR Professor Max Shen has been named a 2018 INFORMS Fellow. INFORMS Fellows Awards are announced once per year, and are reserved for researchers that exemplify outstanding lifetime achievement in operations research and management sciences or have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments or…
Professor Ken Goldberg highlighted in The Economist
Professor Goldberg was highlighted in a recent article by The Economist on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ken Goldberg and Vinod Kumar, the chief executive of Tata communications, created an optimistic report detailing the possible effects of AI on blue collar and…
Berkeley 150 Profile: George Dantzig
George Dantzig is considered a founding father of industrial engineering and operations research, but one of his most incredible achievements took place while he was still a doctoral student at Berkeley. Arriving late to a statistics class, Dantzig scrawled down two problems…
Submit your “Big Idea” and help set the U.S. research agenda
Have a big idea for the future of U.S. STEM research? The National Science Foundation (NSF) just announced the launch of the NSF 2026 Idea Machine, a prize competition to help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science, technology,…
Projections Show Operations Research Analyst Among Fastest Growing Jobs in California
New data from from the California Employment Development Department projects operations research analyst positions to be among the fastest growing jobs in California, with an estimated 29.7% growth by 2026. Click here to read more about it on the Sacramento Bee.
Grigas to Investigate New Framework For Operations-Driven Machine Learning
IEOR professor Paul Grigas has just been awarded $290,060 by the National Science Foundation to improve operational decision-making by leveraging data and machine learning. Grigas will collaborate with Adam Elamchtoub from Columbia University to advance a new statistical learning framework called Smart “Predict, then Optimize” (SPO)…
Zeyu Zheng Joins The IEOR Department
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is excited to announce Dr. Zeyu Zheng will be joining the IEOR department as an assistant professor starting in fall 2018. “I feel excited to bridge operations research and data sciences, and…
Real Estate Investment Sales Agent – St. Petersburg, FL at New Western Acquisitions
View job on Handshake Employer: New Western Acquisitions – Florida-St. Petersburg Expires: 05/31/2021 Founded in 2008, during the peak of the real estate recession, New Western Acquisitions has become one of the largest and fastest-growing real estate investment firms in…
Hochbaum To Research New Techniques To Enhance Monitoring And Quality Control
IEOR Professor Dorit Hochbaum has just been awarded $400,000 by the National Science Foundation to investigate new techniques aiming to reduce manufacturing costs and enhance quality. Besides reducing costs, applications of the research aim to improve societal welfare with broad…