Posts Tagged ‘Shmuel Oren’
Professor Shmuel Oren Named 2025 IFORS Fellow
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research congratulates Professor Shmuel Oren on being named a 2025 Fellow of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). One of the highest international honors in the field, the IFORS Fellows Award recognizes distinguished individuals for their contributions to international operational research and its global communities. Professor…
Read MoreProfessor Shmuel Oren to give lecture at Aalto Systems Forum
Professor Shmuel Oren, of the UC Berkeley IEOR department, will be giving a public lecture, “Challenges and Opportunities for OR in Electricity Markets”, on Friday, March 6 at the Aalto System Forum, held at the Aalto University is Espoo, Finland. Aalto System Forum provides a platform for a dialogue between practitioners and researchers, based on…
Read MoreProfessor Shmuel Oren was Key Speaker at First Annual Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture
Professor Shmuel Oren was the key speaker at the first Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture, hosted by EWI Energy Conference, which took place on September 25th at the University of Cologne, Germany. His lecture was titled, “Firming Renewable Power with Demand Response: An End-to-end Aggregator Business Model“. The annual Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture, in memory of…
Read MoreShmuel Oren to be Keynote Speaker for the 2019 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference
Professor Shmuel Oren will be a keynote speaker at the 2019 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference (iSPEC). The iSPEC conference will be held during November 21-23, 2019 in Beijing. This years theme is “Grid Modernization for Energy Revolution.” The IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference 2019 aims at providing an international forum for engineers…
Read MoreShmuel Oren awarded Berkeley Citation
IEOR professor of the graduate school Shmuel Oren has just been awarded the Berkeley Citation by Chancellor Carol Christ. The Citation is one of the University of California, Berkeley’s highest awards, and is reserved for individuals “whose contributions go beyond the call of duty and whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence in their fields.”…
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 MoreShmuel Oren to be a keynote speaker at the 2018 INFORMS International Conference
Professor Shmuel Oren has been selected to be a keynote speaker at the 2018 INFORMS International Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, June 17-20, 2018. The conference will showcase the opportunities of advancing trends in deep learning and their impact on business and society. Prof. Oren will be delivering a talk titled “Smart markets for a smart grid.” …
Read MoreIEOR Researchers Awarded $450k In Funding From The Army Research Office (ARO)
IEOR professors Shmuel Oren and Javad Lavaei’s proposal entitled “Computational Methods for Large-scale Interconnected Systems with Continuous and Discrete Parameters” has been selected for funding by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Army Research Office (ARO). The project will be funded at $450,000 over three years and will allow the researchers to investigate large-scale distributed systems, such as energy systems.…
Read MoreIEOR Researchers Lead Efforts To Address Environmental Challenges In Energy, Pollution And Global Warming
February 9, 2017 IEOR professors Max Shen, Shmuel Oren, Xin Guo, Ilan Adler, and Javad Lavaei are working on some of the most pressing problems of our time as lead researchers for the Environmental Science and New Energy Technology Research Center at the two-year-old Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI). The center brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers…
Read MoreShmuel Oren Inducted into National Academy of Engineering
Earlier we announced that IEOR Professor Shmuel Oren had been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Today, it is official — Shmuel has been inducted to the NAE for his contributions ‘to the integration of decisions and cooperative market mechanisms for adaptive multisource electrical power systems.’ Shmuel is the second IEOR professor to join the academy…
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