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,…
September 30, 2021
CS Prof. Katherine Yelick has been named UC Berkeley’s next vice chancellor for research. She will take over the role from EECS Prof. Randy Katz on January 1, 2022. Yelick is an expert in the field of parallel computing and currently serves as executive associate dean in the Division of…
August 29, 2021
EECS alumna Hani Gomez (Ph.D. ’20, advisor: Kris Pister) is the subject of a Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) profile titled “Hani Gomez, Ph.D.: Computing Pedagogy at the Nexus of Technology and Social Justice.” Gomez was born in Bolivia and earned her B.S. in EE at the University…
July 29, 2021
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and USC, have been awarded $20M by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch an institute which will deploy AI to tackle massive optimization challenges. The researchers hope the new National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Advances in Optimization will deliver a…
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…