Alper Atamtürk
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998
Professor and Chair
Department of Industrial
Engineering and Operations Research
University of California-Berkeley
423 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA
94720-1758 USA
4143 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA
94720-1777 USA
PGP Public Key
Research Areas
Optimization, integer programming (conic, mixed, combinatorial), sparse learning,
network design, optimization under uncertainty
Recent Courses
Awards
Professional and University Service
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Chair,
INFORMS Optimization Society (2021-2022)
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Berkeley Site Director,
AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (2021-2026)
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Co-Editor for
Mathematical Programming A (2018-)
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Area Editor for
Mathematical Programming C (2015-)
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Associate Editor for
Journal of Risk (2011-)
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Associate Editor for
Discrete Optimization (2007-)
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Associate Editor for Networks (2003-2018)
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Associate Editor for Operations Research
(2003-2018)
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Associate Editor for Management
Science (2003-2008)
- Vice Chair, INFORMS Optimization Society (2008-2009)
- Member, INFORMS Strategic Planning Committee (2006)
- Member, INFORMS Professional Recognition Committee (2006)
- Chair/Member, INFORMS Prize Committees (2005-)
- Chair, Master of Analytics Committee (2019-)
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Chair, IEOR
Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committees (2001-2006, 2017-2020)
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Chair/Member of College of Engineering
Computing & Computer Science Edu. Committee (2001-2020)
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Member, UC Berkeley Academic Senate Committee on Research (COR) (2009-2010)
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Member, UC Berkeley Academic Senate Committee on Library (LIBR) (2015-2017)
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Various department and campus ad hoc committees
Grants
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AI Institute for Advances in Optimization,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 2112533 (2021-2026)
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Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems with Mixed-Integer Quadratic Optimization,
The US Department of Defense, ONR, Grant 12951270 (2020-2023)
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Reliable and Massively Scalable Grid Optimization Via Low-Complexity Convex Relaxation,
The US Department of Energy, ARPA-E, Grant 260801540061 (2019-2020)
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Computational Methods for Mixed-Integer Programs in Power Systems,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 1807260 (2018-2021)
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Networks and Risk,
The US Department of Defense (2010-2017)
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A Unifying Study of the Capacitated Fixed-Charge Network Flow Polyhedron,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0970180 (2010-2015)
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Conic Integer Programming,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0700203 (2007-2011)
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Polyhedral Cutting Planes for Mixed-Integer Programming,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0218265 (2002-2006)
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Mixed-Integer Programming for Capacitated Logistics Network Design
Problems,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0070127 (2000-2004)
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Forecast-Robust Capacity Acquisition and Subcontracting Methods,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 9908705 (1999-2001)
Doctoral Students (advised or co-advised)
- Gemma Berenguer
(PhD 2012, Position: Asst. Professor, Purdue University)
- Avinash Bhardwaj
(PhD 2015, Position: Asst. Professor, IIT Bombay)
- Chen Chen
(PhD 2015, Position: Asst. Professor, Ohio State University)
- Henrik Freiberg
(PhD 2016 (DTU), Position: Research Scientist, Mosek)
- Animesh Garg
(PhD 2016, Position: Asst. Professor, University of Toronto)
- Sinan Gurel
(PhD 2008 (Bilkent), Position: Professor, METU)
- Andres Gomez
(PhD 2017, Position: Asst. Professor, Univ. of Southern California)
- Simge Kucukyavuz
(PhD 2004, Position: Assoc. Professor, Northwestern University)
- Laurent F. Muller
(PhD 2011 (DTU), Position: Software Engineer, Google)
- Juan Carlos
Munoz
(PhD 2002, Position: Assoc. Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
- Vishnu Narayanan
(PhD 2008, Position: Asst. Professor, IIT Bombay)
- Deepak Rajan
(PhD 2004, Position: Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
- Ozge Safak
(PhD 2019 (Bilkent), Position: Prize Fellow, University of Bath)
- Timmy Siauw
(PhD 2012, Position: Senior Research Scientist, Lyft)
- Karen Smilowitz
(PhD 2001, Position: Professor, Northwestern University)
- Birce Tezel
(PhD 2017, Position: Research Scientist, Facebook)
- Muhong Zhang
(PhD 2006, Position: Research Scientist, Amazon)
Postdoc Fellows (advised or co-advised)
- Avinash Bhardwaj
(PhD 2015 (UC Berkeley), Position: Asst. Professor, IIT Bombay)
- Sarah Drewes
(PhD 2010 (TU Darmstadt), Position: Research Scientist, MathWorks)
- Hyemin Jeon
(PhD 2015 (UW Madison), Position: Research Scientist, BNSF Railways)
- Ramtin Madani
(PhD 2015 (Columbia University), Position: Asst. Professor, UT Arlington)
- Sujeevara Sanjeev
(PhD 2012 (Texas A&M), Position: Research Scientist, Saber Technologies)
Teaching
- E102 Introduction to
Operations Research Fall 01
- IEOR150
Production Systems Analysis Fall 03
- IEOR160
Nonlinear and Discrete Optimization Fall 98, Fall 99, Fall 00, Fall 01, Fall 04-06, Spr 17
- IEOR162
Linear Programming Spr 03, Fall 03, Fall 04, Spr 08, Fall 08, Fall 09
- IEOR224 Portfolio and Risk Analytics
Spr 14, Spr 16, Spr 18-19
- IEOR262A Mathematical Programming I
Fall 00, Fall 05, Fall 06, Fall 08-09, Fall 13-20
- IEOR264 Computational Optimization
Spr 99, Spr 00-03, Spr 05, Spr 06, Spr 08
- IEOR280 Systems Analysis and Design Spr 01
- IEOR269
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Spr 04, Spr 09, Spr 20
- IEOR298A IEOR Monday Seminar Series Fall 00
- IEOR298C
Topics in Optimization Fall 00, Spring 07
- ISyE4101 Operations Planning and
Scheduling (Georgia Tech)
Fall 97
For IEOR and Prospective Students
Thanks for visiting. -AA