UCB IEOR DepartmentResearch Activities

IEOR Faculty:Ilan AdlerAlper AtamturkJon BurgstoneYing-Ju ChenLaurent El Ghaoui Ken GoldbergXin GuoDorit S. HochbaumRichard Karp Philip M. KaminskyRobert C. LeachmanAndrew LimShmuel S. OrenChristos PapadimitriouRhonda L. Righter (Chair)Lee W. SchrubenZuo-Jun "Max" ShenIkhlaq SidhuCandace Yano

Theory

• Linear and Integer Programming• Stochastic Optimization and Control• Robust Optimization• Queueing Theory• Decision Theory• Sparse PCA• Algorithms and Complexity• Approximation Algorithms• Game Theory• Discrete Event Simulation• Network Flow Algorithms

Manufacturing/Operations/Transport

• Shipping Port and Container optimization• Optimizing Railroad Traffic• Semi-conductor fab process planning• Supply chain optimization• Scheduling• Algorithmic automation• Pricing and Market Mechanism Design• Logistics• Revenue management• Outsourcing• Manufacturing/marketing integration • Inventory management • Capacity planning• Robotics and Automation

Security

• Detecting nuclear threats• Tagging threats and tracking mobile threats • Pattern recognition/detecting security• Respectful cameras

Financial Engineering

• Option pricing• Pricing and auctions• Credit Risk Analysis• Robust asset allocation• Revenue management• Hedging strategies

Energy• Energy resource planning• Scheduling Smart Grid operation• Grid topology optimization • Electricity market design • Demand response • Renewables integration • Impact of environmental regulation on the power grid• Optimizing wind Farms• Home energy management• Energy efficiency evaluation

Healthcare• BioProduction: Planning, Scheduling, Supply Chains• Image Analysis and Clustering• Triage decision optimization• Radiotherapy dose planning• Planning and control for computer aided surgery• Planning and control for steerable needles• Global health solutions• Pattern recognition: detecting medical pathologies and tumors• Operating room time allocation to surgeons • Surgery scheduling• Computational Biology

Networks

• Risk analysis• Grid Computing• Optimal energy networks• Statistical news analysis• Optimal routing• Opinion modeling and visualization• Call center optimization• Collaborative filtering• Networked robots• Reliable network design

Research Centers Led by the Faculty

• Power Systems Engineering Research Center• Biopharmaceutical Operations Research Center• Berkeley Center for New Media

Research Centers Led by the Faculty

• Power Systems Engineering Research Center• Biopharmaceutical Operations Research Center• Berkeley Center for New Media

Research Centers Led by the Faculty

• Power Systems Engineering Research Center• Biopharmaceutical Operations Research Center• Berkeley Center for New Media

Operations-Marketing Interface

• Pricing and scheduling for express delivery firms

• Manufacturer pricing policies to improve supply chain performance

• Outsourcing of store-brand manufacturing• Coordination of production and pricing

decisions

Risk Issues in Operations and Inventory Management

• Managing weather - related inventory risk • Impact of short-term performance targets and

risk on inventory management • Optimizing archived copies of research

journals