August 15, 2022
EE Prof. Ana Claudia Arias has been conferred an honorary doctorate from Tampere University in Finland. Prof. Arias is one of 14 distinguished individuals to receive an honorary doctorate at Tampere University’s inaugural conferment ceremony, including Ban Ki-Moon, former secretary general of the United Nations. Tampere University, as it is…
August 9, 2022
EECS Prof. Laura Waller is the subject of a feature by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative titled, “A Day in the Life of an Imaging Scientist: Laura Waller.” In it, Prof. Waller describes her day-to-day while she juggles raising a family, cultivating creativity and collaboration in her labs, and mentoring her…
July 12, 2022
EECS alumnus Gary S. May (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Costas Spanos), the first Black chancellor of UC Davis, is the focus of an Inside Higher Ed story highlighting the unique bond between three Black Berkeley Engineering alumni in the 1980s, all of whom have gone on to lead top research…
June 21, 2022
EECS alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. 91, advisor: Richard White), the first woman to earn a doctorate from the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), has won the 2022 Mark Shannon Grand Challenges Award. This award recognizes “long-term contributions of members of our technical community with a vision to address humanity’s…
May 4, 2022
EECS alumna Putri Karunia (B.S. ’19) who co-founded 2022 Forbes 30-Under-30 Enterprise Tech company “Typedream,” is the subject of a profile titled “Putri Karunia proves that women not only belong in tech startups, but will actually make them more successful and profitable.” Karunia, who was raised in Indonesia, graduated cum…
April 26, 2022
CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe has been named to the 2022 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. This fellowship recognizes “scholars and writers in the humanities and social sciences” who are addressing “important and enduring issues confronting our society.” Abebe’s research is in algorithms and artificial intelligence, with a focus on…
April 7, 2022
Audrey Sillers, the EECS Director of Student Diversity, has won a Berkeley Staff Assembly (BSA) 2022 Excellence in Management (EIM) Award. This award “honors exemplary non-academic managers and supervisors who have led their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year.” The 2022 theme, building and maintaining community,…
March 6, 2022
EE alumnus Colin Parris (M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’94, advisor: Domenico Ferrari) has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). After a career at IBM Systems & Technology and General Electric (GE) Research, Parris is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at GE. He is known for…
February 24, 2022
Three EECS alumnae are featured in a 150W Black Women Matter web page recognizing the legacies of Black women at Cal as part of the 2022 Black History Month celebrations. The web page, which was put together by EECS Emerita Director of Diversity Sheila Humphreys, highlights 31 Cal pioneers whose…
February 21, 2022
Lee Julian Purnell is the first Black student who is known to have graduated from the EECS department. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, graduated from Berkeley High in 1915, was a superb track athlete, and earned a B.A. from Cal in 1919. He got his B.S. in Electrical…