December 27, 2019
Alumnus Kirk Tramble (B.S. EECS 1993) is both the son and father of proud UC Berkeley alumni. His father, Thomas, earned a B.A. in Sociology/African American Studies in 1971, and his son, Gabriel, graduated with a B.A. in Media Studies in 2018. The family is profiled in a Cal Alumni…
December 18, 2019
CS-intended major Kai Koerber, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and now an advocate for mental health education, is the subject of an interview in an episode of Fiat Vox, the Berkeley News podcast. Koerber was a high school senior in February…
November 19, 2019
The Hopper-Dean Foundation has awarded the EECS department $2 million over two years to support diversity initiatives in computer science. The gift follows the success of a $1M grant awarded by Hopper-Dean in 2016 to include and support more CS students from underrepresented groups at Berkeley. The grant will fund…
November 19, 2019
EECS alumnus Mark Lee McKelvin Jr (M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’11, advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli), has won the 2020 BEYA (Black Engineer of the Year Award) STEM Most Promising Engineer in Industry Award. The award, which is sponsored by Career Communications Group (publisher of “US Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine”) is…
November 18, 2019
Advising staff answer student questions during CS KickStart, a free, week-long program for incoming freshman, female-identifying and non-binary students interested in computer science, at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Dai Hall in Berkeley, Calif. on Aug. 14, 2019. CS KickStart gives participants the opportunity to live in dorms, tour tech companies, learn…
October 7, 2019
An outstanding group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni, represented Berkeley EECS at the 2019 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, which took place in San Diego in September. Attendees included: Profs. Dan Garcia and Armando Fox; staff Audrey Sillers, Antoine Davis, and Sheila Humphreys; alumni Valerie Taylor…
October 4, 2019
CS alumnus and Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia (M.S. ‘ 95, Ph.D. ’00, advisor: Brian Barsky) is the subject of a profile celebrating Latinx Heritage Month in the EECS department. As a Nuyorican whose father was from Puerto Rico, Garcia “always coveted” his Hispanic heritage and actively explored as much of…
October 4, 2019
I grew up as a “Nuyorican” kid in the Woodlawn Reservoir neighborhood of The Bronx. My dad’s parents were from the Eastern side of Puerto Rico (Ceiba and Fajardo), and both came over in the great Puerto Rican migration to NYC…
September 30, 2019
CS Prof. and alumnus Armando Fox (Ph.D. ’98, advisor: Eric Brewer) is the subject of a profile celebrating Latinx Heritage Month in the EECS community. Fox is the child of Cuban refugees who taught him to “pave the road” for those who follow. He was born in New York City…
September 30, 2019
EECS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Ada Lovelace Day Celebration of Women in Robotics on Tuesday, October 8, in Sutardja Dai Hall. The celebration is sponsored by the Women in Tech Initiative (WITI), a joint program of Berkeley Engineering, CITRIS & the Banatao Institute,…