July 13, 2021
“PlushPal: Storytelling with Interactive Plush Toys and Machine Learning,” co-authored by CS Masters student Deanna Gelosi (advisor: Dan Garcia), has won the Best Full Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Interaction Design for Children (IDC) conference 2021. IDC is “the premier international conference for researchers, educators and…
July 6, 2021
Three EECS faculty have been named associate deans for the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). CS Prof. Armando Fox is the associate dean of online programs; CS Prof. John DeNero is the associate dean of undergraduate studies; and EE Prof. Katherine Yelick is transitioning from her role…
June 9, 2021
CS Prof. Jennifer Chayes, who is also the Associate Provost for the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), is the recipient of the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award. She was selected for the award, which recognizes outstanding career-long “contributions to the computing community at…
June 7, 2021
CS Profs. Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker have each donated $25M toward the construction of The Gateway, the new building that will house the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). The Gateway is conceived as “a planned nexus for collaborative, integrated data science and computing education and research…
June 1, 2021
The EECS department will be welcoming three new chairs, all of whom are EECS alumni, to guide the department for the next two years. The new tripartite structure reflects the growth and changing needs of the department, which has been managed by a two-person leadership team for over 20 years.
June 1, 2021
EECS Prof. S. Shankar Sastry has won the 2021 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Rufus Oldenburger Medal for significant contributions and outstanding achievements to the field and profession of automatic control. Sastry, who was dean of Berkeley Engineering for over ten years, was cited “For fundamental contributions to the…
May 25, 2021
Dean of Berkeley Engineering and EECS Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, and EECS Profs. Emeritus Leon Chua and Chenming Hu (also Professor in the Graduate School), are featured as luminaries in an IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Podcast Series. Considered among “the most successful members of the [Electron Devices] Society,” these…
May 21, 2021
After intensive debate spanning 2020 and 2021, and careful analysis of a trial cycle of GRE-free admissions for Fall 2021, the EECS Department has voted to drop the GRE requirement for graduate admissions indefinitely. Effective immediately, and beginning with the Fall 2022 cohort, whose application window opens in September 2021,…
May 12, 2021
EECS alumna and current Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe (B.S. ’20) is the subject of an article in the Spring 2021 Berkeley Engineer titled “Cultivating female coders in Africa.” During the COVID pandemic shutdown, Tumushabe developed a program called Afro Fem Coders to allow her to remotely teach computer programming to…
May 12, 2021
EECS alumnus and Associate Teaching Prof. John DeNero (CS Ph.D. ’10, advisor: Dan Klein) has been named the new Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). DeNero earned a B.S. in Mathematical & Computational Science and Symbolic Systems, and an M.A.