Alper Atamturk, Professor @ UC Berkeley -- Research areas : integer programming, network design, logistics, optimization under uncertainty

Alper Atamtürk
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998

Professor and Department Chair
Earl J. Isaac Chair in the Science and Analysis of Decision Making
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California-Berkeley
(administrative office) 4143 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1777 USA
(research office) 423 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1758 USA

Research Areas

Optimization, integer programming (conic, mixed, combinatorial), sparse learning, network design, optimization under uncertainty

Recent Courses

Awards

Professional and University Service

Chair, INFORMS Optimization Society (2021-2022)
Berkeley Site Director, AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (2021-)
Co-Editor for Mathematical Programming A (2018-)
Area Editor for Mathematical Programming C (2015-)
Associate Editor for Operations Research (2003-2018, 2024-)
Associate Editor for Discrete Optimization (2007-)
Associate Editor for Journal of Risk (2011-)
Associate Editor for Networks (2003-2018)
Associate Editor for Management Science (2003-2008)
Vice Chair, INFORMS Optimization Society (2008-2009)
Member, INFORMS Subdivisions Council (2023-)
Member, INFORMS Strategic Planning Committee (2006, 2024-)
Member, INFORMS Professional Recognition Committee (2006)
Chair/Member, INFORMS Various Prize Committees (2005-)
Program Director, Master of Analytics (2019-)
Chair, IEOR Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committees (2001-2006, 2017-2020)
Chair/Member, College of Engineering Computing & Computer Science Edu. Committee (2001-2020)
Member, UC Berkeley Academic Senate Committee on Computing and Information Technology (CIT) (2022-)
Member, UC Berkeley Academic Senate Committee on Library (LIBR) (2015-2017)
Member, UC Berkeley Academic Senate Committee on Research (COR) (2009-2010)
Various department and campus ad hoc committees

Grants

Resilient Logistics,
The US Department of Defense, ONR, Grant N00014-24-1-2149 (2024-2027)
AI Institute for Advances in Optimization,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 2112533 (2021-2026)
Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems with Mixed-Integer Quadratic Optimization,
The US Department of Defense, ONR, Grant 12951270 (2020-2023)
Reliable and Massively Scalable Grid Optimization Via Low-Complexity Convex Relaxation,
The US Department of Energy, ARPA-E, Grant 260801540061 (2019-2020)
Computational Methods for Mixed-Integer Programs in Power Systems,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 1807260 (2018-2021)
Networks and Risk,
The US Department of Defense (2010-2017)
A Unifying Study of the Capacitated Fixed-Charge Network Flow Polyhedron,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0970180 (2010-2015)
Conic Integer Programming,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0700203 (2007-2011)
Polyhedral Cutting Planes for Mixed-Integer Programming,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0218265 (2002-2006)
Mixed-Integer Programming for Capacitated Logistics Network Design Problems,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 0070127 (2000-2004)
Forecast-Robust Capacity Acquisition and Subcontracting Methods,
The National Science Foundation, Grant 9908705 (1999-2001)

Doctoral Students (advised or co-advised)

Isabel Agostino (Current IEOR PhD student)
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)
Anna Deza (Current IEOR PhD student)
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)
Hyunki Im (Current IEOR PhD student)
Simge Kucukyavuz (PhD 2004, Position: Assoc. Professor, Northwestern University)
Jisun Lee (Current IEOR PhD student)
Meng Li (Current IEOR PhD student)
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