Posts Tagged ‘Alper Atamturk’
UC Berkeley IEOR professor and alum earn international prize for breakthroughs in optimization
UC Berkeley Professor Alper Atamturk and UC Berkeley alum Andrés Gómez have been awarded the 2025 INFORMS Computing Society Prize, an honor recognizing outstanding contributions at the intersection of computing with operations research. They share the award with their collaborator Shaoning Han. The team is recognized for a sequence of five papers introducing new mathematical…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Honors Professor Alper Atamturk for His Leadership as Department Chair
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley (Berkeley IEOR) extends its gratitude to Professor Alper Atamturk for his exemplary leadership and dedicated service as department chair from January 1, 2021, to June 30, 2025. Over his 4.5-year tenure, Professor Atamturk guided the department through a period marked by both extraordinary challenges…
Read MoreAlper Atamturk Awarded Farkas Prize
IEOR Department Professor and Chair Alper Atamturk has received the 2023 Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society, the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, artificial intelligence, and other relevant fields. The Farkas Prize recognizes a mid-career researcher for outstanding contributions to the field of optimization, over the course of their career.…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineers Selected to Modernize the Grid
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has just selected eighteen teams, including two with UC Berkeley Engineering researchers, to participate in the new Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The UC Berkeley team will be led by EECS assistant professor in residence Somayeh Sojoudi, IEOR associate professor Javad Lavaei, and IEOR professor of the graduate school, Shmuel Oren.…
Read MoreIEOR researchers receive NSF funding to investigate power systems
Alper Atamturk Javad Lavaei IEOR professors Javad Lavaei and Alper Atamturk have been awarded $360,000 in funding by the National Science Foundation to investigate computational methods for mixed-integer programs in power systems. The research will take place from 2018-2021. Title: Computational Methods for Mixed-Integer Programs in Power Systems Abstract: The goal of this project is to design…
Read MoreProfessor Alper Atamturk Delivers Keynote At INFORMS
Professor Alper Atamturk was a speaker at the annual INFORMS conference held this year in Philadelphia from November 1-4. At the conference, Alper delivered his keynote titled “Conic Integer Optimization” (abstract below). Conic Integer Optimization In the last 25 years we have experienced significant advances in conic optimization. Polynomial interior point algorithms that have earlier been developed for linear optimization…
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