May 4, 2022
EECS alumna Putri Karunia (B.S. ’19) who co-founded 2022 Forbes 30-Under-30 Enterprise Tech company “Typedream,” is the subject of a profile titled “Putri Karunia proves that women not only belong in tech startups, but will actually make them more successful and profitable.” Karunia, who was raised in Indonesia, graduated cum…
October 23, 2021
CS alumna Medha Kothari (B.A. ’20) is featured in an episode of California magazine’s The Edge podcast titled “Blockchain for the People.” While still a student, Kothari, who is currently a Research Partner at Variant, founded she256, a non-profit that “aims to increase diversity and break down barriers to entry in the…
September 17, 2021
CS Prof. Ali Ghodsi will be the inaugural speaker for “The Tale of a Success” entrepreneurship series, hosted by the Iranian Students of California (ISC) in collaboration with the Berkeley Iranian Students Association in America (ISAA). Ghodsi is a co-founder and the CEO of enterprise software company Databricks, a start-up…
April 1, 2021
CS Prof. Joseph Hellerstein has been named a Datanami 2021 Person to Watch. Hellerstein is the chief strategy officer and one of the co-founders a Trifacta, a company which markets data preparation and interaction technology based on Data Wrangler, a data transformation and discovery tool he developed in the RISELab…
February 16, 2021
Databricks, a cloud startup founded by CS Adjunct Assistant Prof. Ali Ghodsi, CS Prof. Scott Shenker, CS Prof. Ion Stoica, and alumni Andrew Konwinski (M.S. ’09/Ph.D. 12, advisor: Randy Katz), Reynold Xin (Ph.D. ’13, advisor: Ion Stoica), Patrick Wendell (M.S. ’13, advisor: Ion Stoica), and Matei Zaharia (Ph.D. ’13, advisors:…
January 12, 2021
Ambidextrous, a company co-founded in 2018 by CS Prof. Ken Goldberg, his graduate student Jeffrey Mahler (CS Ph.D. ’18), and AutoLab postdocs (and ME alumni) Stephen McKinley (M.S. ’14/Ph.D. ’16) and David Gealy (B.S. ’15), has won the inaugural Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) ‘Good Robot’ Innovation and Overall Excellence Industry…
October 15, 2020
EECS Prof. Emeritus Michael Stonebraker has won the prestigious NEC Computers and Communications (C&C) Prize “For Pioneering Contributions to Relational Database Systems.” The prize is awarded “to distinguished persons in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and development and/or pioneering work in the fields of semiconductors, computers, and/or telecommunications and…
September 28, 2020
CS alumna Cecilia Aragon (Ph.D. ’04, advisors: Shankar Sastry and Marti Hearst) has written a memoir titled “Flying Free,” which describes how she shook off the tethers of discrimination and her debilitating fear of heights to become the first Latina pilot to win a spot on the United States Unlimited…
September 1, 2020
EECS alumni Dawn Tilbury (EE PhD ’94, advisor: Shankar Sastry) and Feng Zhou (CS PhD ’07, advisor: Eric Brewer) have been selected to present keynote addresses at the Berkeley China Summit (BCS) 2020 conference, which will be held virtually on September 18-19th. BCS is a full-day conference that aims to…
June 15, 2020
The creators of BerkeleyDB (BDB) have won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award for their “seminal work in embodying simplicity, quality, and elegance in a high-performance key-value store that has impacted many systems and applications over the last 25…