Hi!

My name is Oliviero Figus and this is my first IEOR 190G Blog Post.

To introduce myself I am 20 years old and was born in London in the UK but grew up in Rome, Italy. I moved to the U.S. two and a half years ago to attend UC Berkeley and have loved it here ever since.

In my free time am passionate about soccer, skiing, traveling and the great outdoors. My academic interests lie in optimization and problem solving with a focus in Entrepreneurship.

I signed up for this course after having read about it in a CET email. As I have had good experiences in all of the CET course I have take so far, I decided to try out IEOR 190G as well. Now I can say that I am very excited to take this class as Professor Lavian seems extremely passionate about the material. I as feel the material we will learn is very relevant to my career path as an aspiring Entrepreneur. Most importantly I hope to learn the risk-reward relationship of patents and to learn more about the best strategy to take a new product to market.