January 10, 2022
EECS alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. ’90/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: C. V. Ramamoorthy), has been awarded the 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal. The award recognizes “outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering, of great impact to IEEE fields of interest.” Chandrakasan, who is currently an EECS professor at MIT and…
December 9, 2021
EECS Prof. Stuart Russell is slated to direct the future Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, which aims to make ethics and social equity more central to scientific decision-making, and which will try to ensure that the public has a greater say in future scientific advances. The new…
December 3, 2021
The EECS Director of Undergraduate Student Instruction, Christopher Hunn, and the EECS Director of Undergraduate Affairs, Antoine Davis, have won 2020 and 2021 Advising and Student Services Awards. These awards are presented by the UC Berkeley Council of Advising and Student Support to “recognize the positive and innovative impact our…
December 2, 2021
EECS Prof. and dean of Engineering Tsu-Jae King Liu has written an opinion piece for the Mercury News in which she explains why “the country urgently needs to reinvest in semiconductor design and manufacturing, including the development of a highly trained workforce.” She argues that America’s lack of a skilled…
October 20, 2021
The Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) is excited to announce an upcoming event in collaboration with Cal Performances. On October 28, “Place and Displacement: Bias in Our Algorithms and Society” will feature Cal Artist-in-Residence Angélique Kidjo in conversation with CDSS Associate Provost Jennifer Chayes, EECS Assistant Professor…
October 13, 2021
CS Prof. Stewart Russell has been selected as the 2021 BBC Reith Lecturer. Considered among the most prestigious lecture series across all fields, Reith Lectures are delivered annually by leading authorites invited by the BBC “to advance public understanding and debate about significant issues of contemporary interest.” Russell will deliver…
October 12, 2021
The 2019-20 EECS Teaching Awards recognize three members of our faculty whose extraordinary performances kept students focused and engaged during a particularly difficult year. The CS Diane McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Anca Dragan in the spirit of McEntyre who was know for her “dedication to…
October 11, 2021
The Diversifying LEAdership in the Professoriate (LEAP) Alliance (formerly called the FLIP Alliance), is one of the benefactors of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Computing and Information Technology (CMD-IT) to support the Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance (BPC-A). UC Berkeley…
October 11, 2021
EECS Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu has been selected to receive the…
October 1, 2021
Sumit Gulwani (Ph.D. ’05, advisor: George Necula), now a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, has been selected to receive the 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for “automatic programming and computational education.” Gulwani, who won the ACM SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation award and the MSR Ph.d. Fellowship while at Berkeley,…