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Xin (Jennifer) Chen Delivers Student Commencement Address
“To me, IEOR is not just an academic discipline; it’s fundamentally an art of thinking. Industrial Engineers articulate real-world problems through a diverse array of stylized mathematical models—whether it’s a queueing model, a stochastic optimization model, or a fluid dynamics…
Haixiang Zhang Receives 2024 Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics
Haixiang Zhang (https://zhanghxpku.github.io/), a UC Berkeley graduate student, has been honored with the 2024 Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics. Established in 1966, this award recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding research in applied mathematics. Zhang, advised by Berkeley IEOR…
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Yunduan Lin Runhuan Xie We are pleased to announce that Yunduan Lin and Runhan Xie, PhD Candidates in Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) at UC Berkeley, respectively, have been honored with the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor…
Ethan Lam B.S. ’25 Wins Best Decentralized App Award at TreeHacks 2024
During Stanford’s premier hackathon TreeHacks 2024, Ethan Lam, a third-year Berkeley IEOR student, and his team won the Best Decentralized App Award on the Ava Labs sponsor track. Their project, zKnowledge Base, is a social publishing platform aimed at democratizing research paper…
Max Shen and JD.com team win 2024 INFORMS Prize
INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has awarded JD.com, a leading technology and service provider with supply chain at its core, the prestigious 2024 INFORMS Prize for its outstanding use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics…
Teaching it Forward
In June and July 2023, Berkeley IEOR hosted the first in-person Kids Teach Tech (KTT) STEM Summer Camp. Over one hundred youth came to UC Berkeley for a dynamic two-week immersion in STEM education, with additional participants joining virtually from…
Transforming the Synthetic Biology Industry Berkeley IEOR Professor Rob Leachman’s Pioneering Benchmarking Study
Photo by Adam Lau Berkeley IEOR Professor Rob Leachman has been awarded a $1 million grant from BioMADE, a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, and 10 synthetic biology companies that are BioMADE members. The…
Spotlight on Berkeley IEOR Alum Bud Lyons BS ‘72
We recently caught up with Berkeley alum Bud Lyons, a trailblazer who holds a B.S. from Berkeley IEOR and an MBA from Stanford University. With a stellar career trajectory in real estate investment and management, Lyons has assumed pivotal leadership…