Notable Women the EECS Department
Profiles of some of there remarkable students, faculty, staff, and alumnae in Berkeley EECS.
- Valerie E. TaylorDirector of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, EECS Ph.D. 1991
- Sheila Morrin HumphreysEECS Director Emerita of Diversity
- Cecilia Rodriguez AragonThe first Latina full professor at the University of Washington, and the first Latina pilot on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team, EECS Ph.D. 2004
- The First Women of EECSA selection of ten "firsts" by EECS women which mark 50 years of change at Berkeley. The first female EECS graduate student and the first female CS professor arrived at the department at the cusp of the 1960s-70s, an EECS alumna created the first video game designed by a woman a decade later, and the first female EE professor arrived on campus at the end of the 1980s. By the 1990s and 2000s, efforts made by women in the 1970s and '80s started to gain recognition, with awards to alumnae for contributions to both their fields and society. As the 2010s came to a close, the progress made by women during the previous half-century was highlighted by the election of the first female dean of Berkeley Engineering in 2018.