Professor Lee Schruben is retiring, effective January 1st, 2019. Before joining the IEOR faculty in 2000, Professor Schruben had been on Cornell University’s Operations Research and Industrial Engineering faculty for 23 years, where he held the Schultz Professorship and was Director of Cornell’s Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing. When he arrived at Berkeley, Schruben was immediately…

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IEOR assistant professor Zeyu Zheng, joint with Xiaocheng Li, Yufeng Zheng, and Zhenpeng Zhou, have been selected as finalists for the 2018 MSOM Data Driven Research Competition. Xiaocheng and Zeyu will present their paper “Demand Prediction, Predictive Shipping, and Product Allocation for Large-scale E-commerce” at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix. The paper can be…

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The DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (IEOR) at University of California, Berkeley welcomes applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the broad area of Operations Management and Logistics the expected start date is July 1, 2019. Applications are strongly encouraged by November 8 but all applications received by…

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The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is excited to announce Dr. Zeyu Zheng will be joining the IEOR department as an assistant professor starting in fall 2018. “I feel excited to bridge operations research and data sciences, and to push data analytics methodologies to new heights. I can’t think of a better environment…

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The DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS RESEARCH at University of California, Berkeley is generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach courses in the department should an opening arise. Positions may range from 11% to 100% time in a given semester, and they may begin as early as Fall 2018. Applications will…

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Professor Rhonda Righter, along with her collaborators Ivo Adan (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Gideon Weiss (The University of Haifa), have been award the Best Paper Award at the 11th EAI | VALUETOOLS International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools. The title of the paper was “FCFS Parallel Service Systems and Matching Models.” The…

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On Thursday November 2nd, over 90 IEOR alumni, faculty, and staff members reunited with great food and inspiring speakers. The IEOR Alumni network encompasses over 500 members from various backgrounds and professions including but not limited to: professors, CEOs, engineers, and analysts. The night started with delicious refreshments and networking. Followed by four amazing IEOR…

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The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) at the University of California, Berkeley is now hiring for at least one tenure-track faculty position in the department. The full job description can be viewed here or below. University of California, Berkeley Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and College of Engineering Faculty Position(s) in Stochastics…

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The Department of Indusrial Engineering & Operations Research is delighted to announce that Professors Pieter Abbeel and Michael Jordan, two of the best-known experts in machine learning, have been appointed as joint faculty in IEOR in addition to their primary appointments in EECS (and Statistics for Jordan). “Profs. Abbeel and Jordan are terrific colleagues that bring…

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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 awards 1. Undergraduate Faculty Award – The undergraduate faculty award was established to recognize excellence within…

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