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IEOR PhD Student Chosen As Finalist At American Control Conference (ACC)

By Eugene Pang | January 22, 2018

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…

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Professor Lee Schruben Receives INFORMS Simulation Society Lifetime Professional Achievement Award

By Keith McAleer | January 17, 2018

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…

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Prof. Righter Wins VALUETOOLS 2017 Best Paper Award

By Eugene Pang | December 18, 2017

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…

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IEOR welcomes award-winning postdoc

By Eugene Pang | December 5, 2017

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…

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IEOR alum wins $100k data science competition

By Eugene Pang | December 4, 2017

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…

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BADSS Summit Helps Grow Bay Area Decision Sciences Community

By Keith McAleer | November 16, 2017

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…

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Over 90 alumni, faculty, and staff attended out Alumni Reunion

By Eugene Pang | November 7, 2017

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,…

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IEOR alum and former White House Deputy CTO Ryan Panchadsaram talks to students about civic service and fostering curiosity

By Keith McAleer | October 3, 2017

Students in the A. Richard Newton Lecture Series attended a fireside chat last week with Cal alumni and Kenneth Priestly Leadership Award recipient Ryan Panchadsaram. Since graduating ten years ago, Panchadsaram’s career has taken him many different places, from working at Microsoft to launching…

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The IEOR department is currently hiring for tenure-track faculty positions

By Berkeley IEOR | September 21, 2017

The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) at the University of California, Berkeley is now hiring for at least one tenure-track faculty position in the department. The full job description can be viewed here or below. University of California, Berkeley…