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Alum Bets On Self-Driving Trucks
Otto’s offices in San Francisco.CreditRamin Rahimian for The New York Times IEOR alum and advisory board member Anthony Levandowski was featured in the New York Times today to profile his new startup, Otto, which aims to transform the truck-driving industry by integrating…
IEOR Recognizes Outstanding Achievement At Commencement Awards Ceremony
Today, UC Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research recognized undergraduate and graduate students at the commencement reception held at Doe Library Upper Terrace. Eleven awards were given to twenty-five students to honor exceptional academic achievement and leadership this year. Undergraduate…
Ken Goldberg and Berkeley Automation Sciences Lab to Present at ICRA
The Berkeley Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering directed by IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg will be presenting seven papers at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation happening next week in Stockholm, Sweden. Ken will also be delivering a keynote titled “Deep Grasping: Can large datasets…
Anil Aswani Wins Siebel Energy Institute Grant
May 6, 2016 The Siebel Energy Institute has just announced its 2016 research grant recipients which include IEOR Assistant Professor Anil Aswani. Recipients will receive $50,000 seed grants to develop energy science research. Anil will join Emmanuel Gobet and Philippe Drobinski from École Polytechnique…
Recent PhD Graduate Paula Lipka Joins PG&E’s Short-Term Electric Supply Team
“We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.”– Bill Bryson The electric world is an amazing one: illuminated…
Berkeley Team Wins Geisinger Health Collider
The Sutardja Center is pleased to announce that Team Outliers (Rebecca Barter and Shamindra Shrotriya) have won the Geisinger Health Collider. Team Outliers competed against four other teams: three teams from Goethe University in Germany and one from Stanford. Rebecca is a…
The Sutardja Center at CalDay: Discovering Entrepreneurship at Berkeley
CalDay is the perfect opportunity for potential new undergraduate students to get to know one of the most prestigious universities on the planet. This coming Saturday, April 16th, high school seniors, their families, and the already Cal-bound community will be participating…
Students Organize First Annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium
Today, students came together for the first annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium. PhD students presented on a broad array of topics representative of the many areas where IEOR tools are applicable including supply chains, energy systems, robotics, health care, neuroimaging, and others.…
Javad Lavaei Wins 2016 Donald P. Eckman Award
March 16, 2016 The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) has just announced that UC Berkeley IEOR Professor Javad Lavaei will receive the 2016 Donald P. Eckman award for “fundamental contributions to optimization and control theory, with applications to design techniques for electrical power networks, internet congestion, and antenna beamforming.”The award is given annually to outstanding engineers under the age of 35 who study automatic control.…