Lucie Kresl
Lucie Kresl graduated from Berkeley in Spring of 2019 with a degree in IEOR as well as a SCET certificate in Entrepreneurship and Technology. She currently works at Barclays, a UK-based bank, as a Technology Analyst based in New Jersey. Originally from Texas, Lucie came to Berkeley without really knowing anyone else also attending, which…
Yash Bandari
Yash Bhandari is third-year IEOR major hailing from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, who found his way to industrial engineering after entering Berkeley as a Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) major. After some time, Yash came to feel that the MSE curriculum didn’t align with his true interests, and began exploring alternatives. When a close friend…
Sruti Bharat
Sruti Bharat graduated from UC Berkeley in 2012 with an undergraduate degree in IEOR along with a double minor in English and Energy Resources. She currently works as a manager of Venture Programs at All Raise. Sruti grew up in Oakland, eventually moving to Pleasanton with her family. Sruti heavily cherished her time at Berkeley,…
Professor Daniel Pirutinsky
Although he’s been teaching IEOR courses at Berkeley for half a semester, Professor Daniel (dah-NEE-yell) Pirutinsky has no clue what his office looks like, what campus looks like, or even what Berkeley looks like. Hired in the midst of a global pandemic, Pirutinsky has spent the entirety of his nascent career as an assistant teaching…
Kaan Gezguc
As a part of our “Monthly Spotlight” series to foster a sense of community in the IEOR/ORMS departments, we had the privilege to interview Kaan Gezguc –a third-year IEOR major from Istanbul, Turkey! Kaan grew up in Istanbul and graduated from the Saint Joseph High School where he simultaneously received education in French, English, and…
Shir Nehama
IEOR alumnus Shir Nehama (BS ’15, MA ’16) fell in love with industrial engineering after attending a lecture at her first Cal Day in 2011. Since then, Shir has applied her knowledge of IEOR subjects to her career in data science at a range of companies including Deloitte, StubHub, Zillow, and currently, Airbnb. Shir also…
Professor Anil Aswani
Professor Aswani received his B.S in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. For graduate school, he studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with an emphasis in computational biology and genomics at our very own UC Berkeley. During graduate school, he started working on optimization theory and statistics. His research began to align…
Ronnie Miller
As part of IISE’s mission to increase the overall awareness and presence of the IEOR/ORMS community within UC Berkeley, we are currently running a “Monthly Spotlight” series to showcase the experiences and research of IEOR/ORMS undergraduate majors. This month, we had the pleasure of interviewing IISE’s very own Internal Project Manager Ronnie Miller. Ronnie Miller…
Professor Zeyu Zheng
Professor Zeyu Zheng is an assistant professor in the IEOR department. He currently teaches IEOR 173, Introduction to Stochastic Processes, and IEOR 174, Simulation for Enterprise-Scale Systems. Professor Zheng grew up in China and studied Mathematics at Peking University. During his time in college, he developed interests in statistics, economics, and operations research, where he…
Priyan Sathianathan
Priyan Sathianathan is a third-year IEOR major originally from State College, Pennsylvania, who now hails from Irvine, California. Priyan first got into IEOR as a discipline because it focused on a big-picture look at engineering processes. His particular interests lay in project change and organizational oversight as opposed to design minutiae, and he found IEOR…