June 10, 2020
EECS Prof. and dean of the College of Engineering Tsu-Jae King Liu has won the 2020 Chang-Lin Tien Leadership in Education Award. The award honors an Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) who has achieved “significant academic accomplishments and demonstrates the potential to advance to the highest leadership levels in…
June 8, 2020
EECS alumnus Gary S. May (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Costas Spanos), the first Black chancellor of UC Davis, has penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle titled “UC Davis chancellor: George Floyd could have been me” in which he observes that “at a traffic stop, no one knows I am…
May 5, 2020
EECS alumna Andrea Goldsmith (B.A. ’86/M.S. ’91/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: Pravin Varaiya), who was named Berkeley EE Distinguished Alumna in 2018, has been named dean of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Goldsmith has been a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford since 1999 and is a leader in the fields of…
April 28, 2020
EECS Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy has won the 2020 NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award which “recognizes technical women whose lifetime contributions have significantly impacted the landscape of technological innovation, amplifying the importance of capitalizing on the diverse perspectives that girls and women can bring to the table. ” Bajcsy pioneered a…
April 10, 2020
CS Prof. Emerita Susan Graham, the first and only woman professor in the EECS department for 17 years, is the subject of a profile in the Daily Cal in honor of the 150th anniversary of women at Berkeley. Graham arrived in the CS department (then part of the College of…
March 12, 2020
Ruzena Bajcsy has won a 2020 RISE! Women Leader Award from the UC Berkeley Gender Equity Resource Center in the Division of Equity and Inclusion. RISE! Leader Awards highlight “the exceptional endeavors and efforts of women leaders as they continue to support and empower our community of Berkeley women through their participation…
February 25, 2020
The 4th Annual Women In Tech Symposium, part of the Women In Tech Initiative (WITI) will be held at UC Berkeley on Friday, March 6, 2020. The theme will be “Reimagining Cybersecurity for All.” Many members of the EECS community will be involved, including: alumna and Prof. Dawn Song (PhD…
February 7, 2020
Valerie Taylor (EECS Ph.D. ’91, advisor: David Messerschmitt), one of the winners of the 2020 EE Distinguished Alumni Award to be presented next week, is also the subject of our February EECS 150W profile in honor of Black History Month. Taylor grew up in a STEM-forward family and attended Purdue…
January 16, 2020
In celebration of the anniversary of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley (150W) in 2020, the EECS department will profile a number of remarkable women who have studied or worked here. This month, Berkeley EECS is highlighting ten trailblazing women who were the first to reach important milestones over the…
January 2, 2020
2020 is the 150th anniversary of the first year women students were admitted to UC Berkeley. EECS Emerita Director of Diversity and unofficial department historian Sheila Humphreys is co-chairing the History Steering Committee for the year-long campus celebration, for which she will be collecting, creating and archiving information about the…