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Recent PhD Graduate Paula Lipka Joins PG&E’s Short-Term Electric Supply Team

By Keith McAleer | April 29, 2016

“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…

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Berkeley Team Wins Geisinger Health Collider

By Eugene Pang | April 20, 2016

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…

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The Sutardja Center at CalDay: Discovering Entrepreneurship at Berkeley

By Eugene Pang | April 15, 2016

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…

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Students Organize First Annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium

By Eugene Pang | April 9, 2016

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.…

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Javad Lavaei Wins 2016 Donald P. Eckman Award

By Keith McAleer | March 16, 2016

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.…

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Alumni gather for spring 2016 alumni social

By Eugene Pang | March 10, 2016

Last night, IEOR alumni convened at ThirstyBear Brewing Company in San Francisco to see old friends and professors, meet the IEOR staff, and get re-connected with UC Berkeley. Thanks to everyone who participated! We look forward to seeing you at the…

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Berkeley IEOR Now Ranked #2 In The Country

By Eugene Pang | March 2, 2016

The latest U.S. News rankings have just been released and the UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) department is now ranked #2 (tied) overall for IEOR graduate programs.  Congratulations to the IEOR faculty, students, and staff for their hard work…

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Students Connect through ‘Lunch and Learn’

By Eugene Pang | February 26, 2016

Keith McAleer Back row: Cheng Lyu, Mo Zhou, Dean Grosbard, Salar Fattahi, Alfonso Andres Lobos Ruiz, Quico Spaen, Kevin Li, Tugce Gurek, Wei Qi, Sheng Liu Front row: Dimin Xu, Shiman Ding, Amber Richter, Xu Rao, Mengyu Li, Haoyang Cao,…

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Cockroaches inspire life-saving robots

By Eugene Pang | February 12, 2016

The cockroach — elusive, prolific, and disgusting. Most would be happy to never see the little pest again. But what if cockroaches, (or what we can learn from them), could actually help humanity? That is the idea behind research being published…