November 12, 2019
CS alumna and Prof. Down Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar) is the subject of a New York Times article titled “Building a World Where Data Privacy Exists Online.” One of the world’s foremost experts in computer security and trustworthy artificial intelligence, Song founded a startup called Oasis Labs to…
October 26, 2019
CS Profs Dawn Song and Hany Farid are among Wired Magazine’s list of 25 People Who Are Racing to Save Us (WIRED25 list of innovators for 2019). Song is the co-founder and CEO of Oasis Labs, a startup built around differential privacy—cryptographic techniques that allow companies to incorporate data into…
October 18, 2019
Corelight, a start-up founded by CS Prof. Vern Paxson, has secured an additional $50 million in Series C financing for its network traffic analysis (NTA) solutions for cybersecurity. The company has raised a total of $84 million to date, with investment from General Catalyst, Accel, Osage University Partners and Riverbed…
September 30, 2019
EECS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Ada Lovelace Day Celebration of Women in Robotics on Tuesday, October 8, in Sutardja Dai Hall. The celebration is sponsored by the Women in Tech Initiative (WITI), a joint program of Berkeley Engineering, CITRIS & the Banatao Institute,…
September 18, 2019
CS alumnus Feng Zhou (Ph.D. ’07, advisor: Eric Brewer) is the subject of a Bloomberg article titled “The U.S.-trained coder is helping NetEase find new life beyond games.” To help the company remain competitive, NetEase Youdao CEO Zhou is creating an all-in-one learning platform to tap the lucrative overlap between…
September 18, 2019
Yamilée Toussaint Beach, founder and CEO of STEM From Dance (SFD), is the third recipient of the Educational Innovation Abie Award in Honor of A. Richard Newton, an award which honors the life and career of a beloved EECS professor and alumnus. A. Richard Newton (Ph.D. ’78, advisor: Donald O. Pederson)…
September 18, 2019
EE alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Richard White) gave an insightful and inspirational presentation on Ice911 Research at the inaugural Global Climate Restoration Forum held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York yesterday. Field is the Founder and CEO of Ice911 Research, a non-profit focused on developing…
August 27, 2019
EECS alumnus Richard Din (B.S. EECS/B.A. Econ ’08), the co-founder of revolutionary food-delivery app Caviar, has imagined and helped to create a small, select, new course being offerred fall semester through the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET). The course, which cannot be documented or attended by visitors, will…
June 18, 2019
According to Crunchbase News, UC Berkeley graduated 108 startup founders–not including business school graduates –who raised $1M or more after May 1, 2018. This makes Berkeley the top-ranked public university, and the third-ranked university of any kind after Stanford and MIT, in founding graduates. In the Crunchbase tally of all…
April 20, 2019
A team of three undergraduates, including EECS junior Aayush Tyagi, launched Oki Karaoke in September 2018 — a startup that aims to bring Asia’s soundproof karaoke pods to the United States. The startup is currently working to install its first booth, which will operate by charging customers by the minute,…