June 13, 2018
WHO WE ARE mouseBelt Labs is an ICO startup accelerator funding 10 companies in 2018 through our classOne program starting August 1. We also fund academic blockchain projects through our summerOne grant program starting June 15. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: We want to support students, grad students and…
June 1, 2018
Interested in deep learning? Have you wanted to apply computational concepts to other fields such as medicine or art? Have you ever wanted to get experience running a research group? The Statistical Modeling and Deep Learning uLab is looking for machine learning staff scientists, project leaders,…
May 11, 2018
[soliloquy id="2685"] The EECS 2018 Student Awards Ceremony was held on Friday May 4, 2018, at 11am-1:30pm in Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.
February 27, 2018
[soliloquy id="2604"] At the beginning of his career, Prof. Lotfi Zadeh enjoyed capturing the people around him in a series of black and white portraits. He joined the EECS faculty in 1959 after stints at Columbia and Princeton. As department Chair from 1963-68, he led the charge to change the…
February 20, 2018
With a father and a brother who are both electrical engineers in Singapore, Wen-Rui Liao came to UC Berkeley knowing that he wanted to learn about both software and hardware and their interfaces. He has been watching the ways that new technologies are impacting so many aspects of people’s everyday…
February 8, 2018
[soliloquy id=”2581″] The 2018 Distinguished EECS Alumni awards were presented to Prof. Marie desJardins, Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Richard Ruby, and EECS Prof. Emeritus Eric Brewer, at the at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS) on February 8, 2018. CS alumna Marie desJardins (Ph.D. ’92), currently a Professor of Computer…
December 8, 2017
EECS FLIP Alliance When Dan Garcia first attended UC Berkeley as a graduate student, he was amazed at the many different faces and key spaces that make up the world’s top public research university. “I can’t imagine being anywhere else,” says Garcia, adding that part of what…
August 20, 2017
Alumna Dr. Estela Llinás (MEng ’68/Ph.D. ’77) 40 years ago, Estela Llinás (née Soria) graduated from Berkeley with a Ph.D. in EECS. One of an elite group of women during her era, she looks back on her childhood, her experiences as a woman engineer, her role as…
April 27, 2017
U.C. Berkeley has the top ten most AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award winners across all fields of computer science in 2016<fn>Includes data for Thomas Griffiths in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (#92 in Machine Learning), CS alumnus Wei Hong (#38 in System and #65 in Database), CS alumnus…
January 4, 2017
2016 Zeilinger Award winner Shirley Salanio flanked by her wife Kari (left) and friend Janet I can think of no other staff member I’ve ever worked with who exemplifies “service cheerfully given for the general good” more than Shirley. She knows the name of nearly every…