May 12, 2021
The Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) has thrown a spotlight on UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) and its leadership. In “A Conversation with Michael V. Drake and Jennifer Chayes” HDSR takes a comprehensive look at data science at Berkeley from a variety of perspectives. UC…
May 11, 2021
Senior undergraduate and future graduate EECS student Leyla Kabuli has won the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor. She is the daughter of EECS alumna A. Nazli Gündes (Ph.D. ’88, advisor: Charles Desoer), now an ECE professor at UC Davis. Kabuli, who will graduate with a 4.0 GPA, attended Berkeley…
April 27, 2021
EECS Prof. Anthony Joseph has been name the next Director of the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. After earning his degrees at MIT, Joseph was hired as a professor of Computer Science at Berkeley in 1998. His primary research interests are in Genomics, Secure Machine Learning, Datacenters, mobile/distributed computing,…
April 23, 2021
EECS alumna and Assistant Teaching Prof. Gireeja Ranade (M.S. ’09/Ph.D. ’14, advisor: Anant Sahai), and Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) Ritika Shrivastava, Jay Monga, Maxson Yang, Suraj Rampure and Allen Shen have won UC Berkeley Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times awards. They are among 59 people from of pool of over…
March 8, 2021
In an effort to facilitate the conversation about diversity and inclusion in the field of EECS, undergraduate students Neha Hudait and Prachi Deo have put together a web page and calendar of events for March 2021 and beyond. The web page will feature a series of profiles, the…
March 1, 2021
CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe will be moderating a problem solving session at the 2021 NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Mechanism Design for Vulnerable Populations.” Abebe’s session will be designed to help academics understand the challenges facing refugees and practitioners working on refugee issues globally,…
February 5, 2021
CS Prof. Jelani Nelson and Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe will be participating on a panel about the “Role of Computing in Africa’s Economic Future” at the University of Michigan Africa Week conference on Tuesday, February 16th, from 9:30 am to 10:45 (EST). U-M Africa Week brings together “thought leaders…
February 3, 2021
EECS 5th Year Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe is the subject of a Berkeley News article titled “COVID Stories: The chance to teach young Ugandan women to code.” A MasterCard Foundation Scholar from Uganda, Tumushabe had always wanted to teach. When the Coronavirus pandemic hit in early 2020, she…
January 28, 2021
Computer Science Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe and Prof. and alumna Shafi Goldwasser (M.S. ’81/Ph.D. ’84, advisor: Manuel Blum) are slated to speak at the inaugural 24-hour virtual Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference, hosted by Stanford University on International Women’s Day, March 8th. WiDS first took shape at Stanford in…
January 14, 2021
EECS Prof. and alumnus Randy Katz (M.S. ’78 / Ph.D. ’80) has announced that he will be retiring in June 2021, and will step down as UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor for Research. During his tenure as vice chancellor, Katz demonstrated a deep commitment to research excellence at Berkeley, helping to…