April 27, 2017

Berkeley CS faculty are among the most influential in their fields

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

Staff Spotlight: Shirley Salanio

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…

January 3, 2017

2016: A Year of Firsts

While 2015 ended on a high note with the late-November announcement of Ali Javey’s team’s creation of the first optoelectronically perfect monolayer semiconductor, that was just a taste of things to come.  Research conducted in the EECS department in 2016 would go on to produce no…

October 7, 2016

Combining EECS and Ballet: Alexandria Finley

Alexandria Finley wasn’t expecting to earn one of the ten places at the Genée International Ballet Competition this year that was sponsored by the competition, let alone one of the 100 places to compete. But without the sponsorship, she couldn’t afford to attend the 10 day competition in Sydney, Australia…

September 23, 2016

Looking at the Top in Tech: Virginia Smith

Computer Science Ph.D. student, Virginia Smith, started out in a field where there were quite a lot women.  As an undergraduate, she studied math, a field where there are almost equal numbers of men and women. Smith finished all of her required math courses in her first two years as…

August 16, 2016

Fall ’16 Alumni Spotlight: Diane Greene

Diane B. Greene (M.S. CS 1988) is ranked #1 of the 26 most powerful female engineers in 2016 by Business Insider. Diane was a founder and CEO of VMware in 1998 and is currently the Senior Vice President of (cloud) Enterprise Business at Google, one of the most influential…