Posts by Matthew Santillan

May 14, 2024

The 2024 EECS Distinguished Alumni

The EECS Department is proud to present the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize valuable contributions made by the distinguished alumni of Berkeley to the fields of Electrical Engineering and…

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December 21, 2022

Berkeley EECS to honor Joseph Gier with memorial sculpture

  A community is defined by the heroes it chooses to celebrate. We invite you to join the EECS department in recognizing a previously overlooked hero, Berkeley EE Prof. Joseph T. Gier, the University of California’s first tenured Black professor. Raised in Oakland by a single mother, Gier came to…

August 30, 2022

CS Kickstart kicks off to a great start

CS Kickstart Fall 2022 cohort CS Kickstart, an EECS-affiliated student organization, held its week-long computer science immersion program earlier this month, ushering in a record turnout for the outreach program designed to attract female-identifying first-year students to computer science at Berkeley. Its ice cream social with CS advisors, which…

February 8, 2019

The 2019 EECS Distinguished Alumni

Berkeley EECS has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize the valuable contributions of its most distinguished alumni. EE alumnus Sharad Malik (M.S. ’87/EE Ph.D ’90, advisor: Robert k. Brayton), currently chair of Electrical Engineering at Princeton, was recognized for excellence in teaching, and groundbreaking research on design…