People

With its distinguished faculty and student body and wonderful staff, the IEOR department is one of the finest schools of Industrial Engineering/Operations Research in the world. Our department is ranked 2nd in the U.S. by the National Research Council.

IEOR faculty are world-renowned experts in many application areas, from semiconductor manufacturing to the design and deregulation of energy markets to supply chain management to robotics to discrete event simulation, and have made important advancements in the theory of operations research, in areas such as algorithm design, integer programming, non-linear programming, and stochastic modeling. Our faculty include fellows of professional societies such as INFORMS, IEEE, ACM.

The department has received millions of dollars of industry and government funding to support research projects. Faculty members have won many awards, including the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement, the Nicholson Award, the ACM Turing Award, the Lanchaster Prize, Fulkerson Prize. Textbooks written by our faculty members are widely used to teach industrial engineering and operations research.

Awards and Prizes

The UC Berkeley INFORMS Student Chapter has been awarded the INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award: Cum Laude in recognition of Outstanding Participation and Performance during the year of 2008 by the INFORMS Chapters/Fora Committee.


Ikhlaq Sidhu received the 2009 IEOR Chair’s Emerging Area Professor Award for playing a prominent role in developing a research and teaching presence in an area of emerging importance to the profession — Entrepreneurship and Innovation.


The Outstanding ORMS Graduate award was established this year to recognize excellence within the ORMS major. The award was presented to Jeslyn Yingxin Su.


Shan Li and Engin Alper have been awarded the Marshall-Oliver-Rosenberger Scholarship, which is to award excellent research in decision science.