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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…
Professor Lee Schruben Receives INFORMS Simulation Society Lifetime Professional Achievement Award
IEOR Professor Lee W. Schruben recently received the Lifetime Professional Achievement Award (LPAA) by the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Simulation Society, the highest honor given by the society. The award is given occasionally, at most once…
Prof. Righter Wins VALUETOOLS 2017 Best Paper Award
Professor Rhonda Righter, along with her collaborators Ivo Adan (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Gideon Weiss (The University of Haifa), have been award the Best Paper Award at the 11th EAI | VALUETOOLS International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and…
IEOR welcomes award-winning postdoc
IEOR is proud to welcome Cédric Josz to the Berkeley community. Cédric is currently pursuing a postdoc in EECS and IEOR under the supervision of Somayeh Sojoudi and Javad Lavaei where he works on optimization, control and its applications. In December, Cédric…
IEOR alum wins $100k data science competition
Allen Tang (Operations Research & Management Science ’16), along with three other Berkeley students, won a $100,000 prize last week in the Data Open championship, sponsored by the hedge fund Citadel. Tang is currently pursuing a master of science degree…
BADSS Summit Helps Grow Bay Area Decision Sciences Community
Sometimes you can learn more by collaborating with others outside the classroom than you can learn inside of it. That was what San Francisco State University (SFSU) College of Business dean, Linda Oubre, told students to kick off the first…
Over 90 alumni, faculty, and staff attended out Alumni Reunion
On Thursday November 2nd, over 90 IEOR alumni, faculty, and staff members reunited with great food and inspiring speakers. The IEOR Alumni network encompasses over 500 members from various backgrounds and professions including but not limited to: professors, CEOs, engineers,…