Diversity

abebe-goldwasser

January 28, 2021

Rediet Abebe and Shafi Goldwasser to speak at Women in Data Science 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…

how-to-build-your-robot

December 17, 2020

Ken and Blooma Goldberg show you “How to Train Your Robot”

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…

minilek

December 17, 2020

Jelani Nelson shrinks Big Data and expands CS learning opportunities

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…

cecilia-aragon-kathleenatkins

November 16, 2020

EECS 150W: Cecilia Aragon

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…

Bin Yu

November 16, 2020

150W: Bin Yu’s “most successful failure”

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…

e3s-tte-2019

October 30, 2020

Progress update: E3S 2019 Transfer-to Excellence program

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…

gabe

October 26, 2020

Gabe Fierro wins inaugural Google – CMD-IT FLIP Dissertation Fellowship

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…

sheila-humphreys

October 10, 2020

Sheila Humphreys to join Carol Christ for Campus Conversation on 150W History Project

EECS Director Emerita of Diversity, Sheila Humphreys, will be joining Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Prof. Emerita Catherine Gallagher for a Campus Conversation about the 150 Years of Women at Berkeley (150W) History Project, which Humphreys and Gallagher currently co-chair.  October marks the 150th anniversary of the UC Regents’ unanimous…

ceciliaaragon-flyingfree

September 28, 2020

Cecilia Aragon: Flying Free

CS alumna Cecilia Aragon (Ph.D. ’04, advisors: Shankar Sastry and Marti Hearst) has written a memoir titled “Flying Free,” which describes how she shook off the tethers of discrimination and her debilitating fear of heights to become the first Latina pilot to win a spot on the United States Unlimited…