July 29, 2021
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and USC, have been awarded $20M by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch an institute which will deploy AI to tackle massive optimization challenges. The researchers hope the new National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Advances in Optimization will deliver a…
June 9, 2021
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…
May 21, 2021
After intensive debate spanning 2020 and 2021, and careful analysis of a trial cycle of GRE-free admissions for Fall 2021, the EECS Department has voted to drop the GRE requirement for graduate admissions indefinitely. Effective immediately, and beginning with the Fall 2022 cohort, whose application window opens in September 2021,…
May 12, 2021
EECS alumna and current Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe (B.S. ’20) is the subject of an article in the Spring 2021 Berkeley Engineer titled “Cultivating female coders in Africa.” During the COVID pandemic shutdown, Tumushabe developed a program called Afro Fem Coders to allow her to remotely teach computer programming to…
May 12, 2021
The Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) has thrown a spotlight on UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) and its leadership. In “A Conversation with Michael V. Drake and Jennifer Chayes” HDSR takes a comprehensive look at data science at Berkeley from a variety of perspectives. UC…
May 11, 2021
Senior undergraduate and future graduate EECS student Leyla Kabuli has won the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor. She is the daughter of EECS alumna A. Nazli Gündes (Ph.D. ’88, advisor: Charles Desoer), now an ECE professor at UC Davis. Kabuli, who will graduate with a 4.0 GPA, attended Berkeley…
May 4, 2021
Rising Stars 2021, an academic career workshop for women in EECS, will be hosted by MIT on October 14-15, 2021. The virtual event, which was hosted by Berkeley last year, is an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical…
April 28, 2021
EECS Prof. Jelani Nelson will participate on a panel discussing Berkeley’s first Black full professor, statistician David Blackwell, on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Blackwell made seminal contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the seventh African American to…
April 27, 2021
EECS Prof. Anthony Joseph has been name the next Director of the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. After earning his degrees at MIT, Joseph was hired as a professor of Computer Science at Berkeley in 1998. His primary research interests are in Genomics, Secure Machine Learning, Datacenters, mobile/distributed computing,…
April 19, 2021
CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe is co-chairing the inaugural ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21) in October 2021. This conference will highlight work where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, can help improve equity and…