October 10, 2020
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…
September 28, 2020
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…
September 14, 2020
EECS alumnus John S. Davis II (Ph.D. ’00, advisor: Edward Lee) will be participating in the Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club (BESAC)’s homecoming week panel on “Black in STEM – in the face of two pandemics.” This virtual moderated panel, which will be held on October 17th, will discuss…
September 11, 2020
CS Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia is featured in NBC Bay Area for his innovative teaching style which keep his students engaged in online learning. He has “transformed his mancave into a studio,” where he films and edits his creative virtual lessons, and then uploads them for students to watch. Known…
September 8, 2020
EECS alumna Gitanjali Swamy (Ph.D. ’96, advisor: Robert Brayton) has been named one of the most Influential Women in Technology in 2020 by India’s Analytics Insight magazine. She was recognized for “helping enterprises realize their potential through the ‘Innovation of Things (IoT).'” Swamy is the Managing Partner of IoTask, which…
September 1, 2020
Since the late 1970s, WICSE has pursued the goal of increasing the number of women in those disciplines and supporting their academic progress. WICSE has become a permanent force in EECS, and, indeed, is the first such group in an American university with a disciplinary focus on computer science or electrical engineering. Since then, women’s groups have been created in most computing departments. The establishment of WICSE created peer support and a strong voice for women graduate students, and the faculty has relied on WICSE to monitor the climate for women ever since.
August 20, 2020
UC Berkeley has been selected to host the Rising Stars 2020 Academic Career Workshop for Women in EECS, which will be held virtually on November 9-10, 2020. Born at MIT in 2013 and last hosted by Berkeley in 2014, Rising Stars is an intensive workshop for women graduate students and…
August 17, 2020
EECS director of operations Josephine Williamson is one of 18 unsung heroines at UC Berkeley being honored this month as part of the Berkeley 150W project. Williamson, whom Vice Provost Tsu-Jae King Liu describes as “an exemplary builder of positive working relationships,” knows the department inside and out. She began…
July 29, 2020
EECS Alumna Chen-Nee Chuah (M.S. ’97/Ph.D. ’01, Advisor: Randy Katz) has won a UC Davis’ ADVANCE Scholar Award, which honors UC Davis faculty members for advancing diverse perspectives and gender equity in STEM. This award also recognizes Chuah’s research achievements in electrical and computer engineering. She joined the Department of…
July 20, 2020
In celebration of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley, the EECS Director Emerita of Diversity (and Berkeley 150W History Project co-chair) Sheila Humphreys tells the story of Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WiCSE), the first student group at an American university created to support and increase the number…