Ilan Adler

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Ilan Adler is an Israeli‑American operations researcher and a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. His work focuses on mathematical programming, polyhedral combinatorics, and algorithmic game theory. He studies interior-point methods for solving linear programming and convex programming problems and the connection between linear programs and zero‑sum games.

Adler earned his bachelor's degree in economics and statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1966, a master's degree in operations research from Technion in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. His doctoral advisor was George Dantzig, the founder of linear programming. He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1970 and served as chair of the IEOR department from 2005 to 2008. He has also been affiliated with Tsinghua University and the Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute.