He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1970, and chaired the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from 2005 to 2008. He has also held affiliations with Tsinghua University and the Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute.[1]
Adler taught four courses: In the spring of 2025 he taught "Introduction to Financial Engineering" and "Senior Project".[3] In the fall of 2025, he taught "Mathematical Programming I".[3] In the spring of 2026, he taught "Individual Study or Research".[3]