Diversity

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January 10, 2022

Anantha Chandrakasan wins 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal

EECS alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. ’90/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: C. V. Ramamoorthy), has been awarded the 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal.  The award recognizes “outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering, of great impact to IEEE fields of interest.”   Chandrakasan, who is currently an EECS professor at MIT and…

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December 3, 2021

Christopher Hunn and Antoine Davis win 2020/2021 Advising and Student Services Awards

The EECS Director of Undergraduate Student Instruction, Christopher Hunn, and the EECS Director of Undergraduate Affairs, Antoine Davis, have won 2020 and 2021 Advising and Student Services Awards.   These awards are presented by the UC Berkeley Council of Advising and Student Support to “recognize the positive and innovative impact our…

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October 23, 2021

Medha Kothari talks Blockchain for the People

CS alumna Medha Kothari (B.A. ’20) is featured in an episode of California magazine’s The Edge podcast titled “Blockchain for the People.”  While still a student, Kothari, who is currently a Research Partner at Variant, founded she256, a non-profit that “aims to increase diversity and break down barriers to entry in the…

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June 9, 2021

Jennifer Chayes wins 2020 ACM Distinguished Service Award

CS Prof. Jennifer Chayes, who is also the Associate Provost for the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), is the recipient of the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award.  She was selected for the award, which recognizes outstanding career-long “contributions to the computing community at…