February 3, 2021
EECS 5th Year Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe is the subject of a Berkeley News article titled “COVID Stories: The chance to teach young Ugandan women to code.” A MasterCard Foundation Scholar from Uganda, Tumushabe had always wanted to teach. When the Coronavirus pandemic hit in early 2020, she…
January 28, 2021
Liaowang (Zoey) Zou, an EECS Master of Engineering (MEng) candidate with a concentration in Data Science and Systems, is the subject of a Coleman Fung Institute interview. Zou, who grew up in China, describes how she became interested in STEM as a child, what drove her to EECS, her experience…
January 28, 2021
Computer Science Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe and Prof. and alumna Shafi Goldwasser (M.S. ’81/Ph.D. ’84, advisor: Manuel Blum) are slated to speak at the inaugural 24-hour virtual Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference, hosted by Stanford University on International Women’s Day, March 8th. WiDS first took shape at Stanford in…
December 17, 2020
A 15-minute video version of the children’s book “How to Train Your Robot,” written by CS Prof. Ken Goldberg and his daughter, Blooma, has been released by the CITRIS Banatao Institute. Aimed at children ages six to eleven, it tells the story of a group of 4th graders who decide…
December 17, 2020
Since computers cannot store unlimited amounts of data, it is important to be able to quickly extract patterns in that data without having to remember it in real time. CS Prof. Jelani Nelson, who is profiled in a Q&A session for Quanta magazine, has been expanding the theoretical possibilities…
November 16, 2020
2013’s CS Distinguished Alumna, Cecilia Aragon (M.S. ’87/Ph.D. ’04, advisors: Shankar Sastry and Marti Hearst), the first Latina pilot on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team, and the first Latina full professor at the University of Washington, is the subject of an EECS 150W profile by Sheila Humphreys. The child of…
November 16, 2020
EECS Prof. Bin Yu is the subject of a 150W profile by the Department of Statistics, where she holds a joint appointment. Yu found refuge from the tumult of Mao Tse Tung’s Cultural Revolution in the orderly tables of a math textbook. Although she placed first in the math…
October 30, 2020
The Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S) Transfer-to-Excellence (TTE) research program is a competitive merit-based program that offers California community college students research opportunities at Berkeley in an effort to encourage them to transfer to a university to purse a Bachelor’s degree in science and engineering. A review of…
October 28, 2020
As the largest department at UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) [over 130 faculty, 730 graduate students, and 3,450 undergraduates] has long recognized the challenge of attracting, admitting, and graduating doctoral students who will enrich the diversity of the field. In the context of the recently heightened awareness…
October 26, 2020
EECS graduate student Gabriel Fierro (B.S. c. 2014, Ph.D. advisor: David Culler) has won an inaugural Google – CMD-IT FLIP Dissertation Fellowship. He is one of 11 computer science scholars from underrepresented groups who were recognized this year for “positively influencing the direction and perspective of technology.” The award…