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IEOR Alum Wins Outstanding Young Engineer Award
The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) has just announced its 2016 award winners and Kory Hedman has won the Outstanding Young Engineer Award. He was honored by IEEE PES for his “contributions and leadership in the application of operations…
Rhonda Righter Will Co-Chair European Conference On Queueing Theory
Rhonda Righter Will Co-Chair European Conference On Queueing Theory Keith McAleer June 23, 2016 IEOR Professor Rhonda Righter is program co-chair for the European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT), to be held in Toulouse, France next month. According to the conference website: ECQT…
Phil Kaminsky Delivers Keynote At IIE Annual Conference
Last week, Phil delivered the keynote presentation at the 2016 IIE annual conference in Anaheim. A short interview with Phil and IIE can be found here: http://www.iienet2.org/Annual2/details.aspx?id=41095 Also, be sure to watch the video interview with Phil and a portion of his…
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…