August 7, 2018
CS alumnus Hanzhong (Ayden) Ye (M.S. ’12, advisor: Björn Hartmann) is profiled in an ejinsight article titled “Former Silicon Valley executives build VR version of YouTube.” In 2016, Ye gave up his lucrative job with Sierra Ventures in Silicon Valley to establish VeeR VR, a Virtual Reality content sharing platform in…
July 9, 2018
Oasis Labs Inc., a startup co-founded and led by Prof. Dawn Song to build a high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain, announced that it has raised $45 million in funding. Oasis is building a cloud-based blockchain platform intended to outdo existing distributed-ledger implementations in two key areas: performance and privacy. Song…
June 28, 2018
The House Fund has backed a $875,000 pre-seed round for Elph, a startup co-founded by two EECS alumni: Ritik Malhotra (B.S. ’15) and Tanooj Luthra (B.S. ’13). Elph operates a portal for accessing decentralized apps known as Ethereum dApps. It provides a place to store digital assets (cryptocurrencies, tokens, collectibles),…
June 28, 2018
Everlaw, a legal-tech startup founded by alumnus AJ Shankar (CS Ph.D. ’09, advisor: Rastislav Bodik), has raised $25 million in a series B funding round. Berkeley-based Everlaw was established in 2011 as a cloud-based e-discovery platform that lets lawyers easily organize and search through millions of documents, videos, emails, and…
June 27, 2018
CS Assistant Prof. Alessandro Chiesa has been named to the 2018 roster of MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35.” The list acknowledges “exceptionally talented young innovators whose work we believe has the greatest potential to transform the world.” Chiesa, who co-founded Zcash, was cited in the Pioneers category for…
June 27, 2018
CS alumnus John Schulman (Ph.D. ’16, adviser: Pieter Abbeel) has been named to MIT Technology Review’s 2018 list of “35 Innovators Under 35,” an honor which recognizes “exceptionally talented young innovators whose work we believe has the greatest potential to transform the world.” Schulman, whose dissertation was on “Optimizing Expectations:…
June 26, 2018
German conglomerate Siemens announced it will acquire Comfy, an Oakland-based startup co-founded in 2012 by two CS alumni, Andrew Krioukov (M.S. ’13) and Stephen Dawson-Haggerty (Ph.D. ’14). Both students were advised by David Culler. Comfy (formerly named Building Robotics) is an end-to-end solution utilizing sensors and smart technology to control…
May 29, 2018
CS alumna Margo I. Seltzer (Ph.D. ’92, advisor: Michael Stonebraker) is the subject of a Harvard Crimson article celebrating her contributions to that institution. Seltzer, who until this year had been a professor at Harvard and the director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society, is also the…
May 21, 2018
Semantic Machines, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Prof. Dan Klein and staffed by a number of EECS alumni, has been acquired by Microsoft to help Cortana hold more natural dialog with users. The team has built a number of machine learning components which work together for a smarter AI,…
May 11, 2018
SiFive, a fabless provider of customized semiconductors built on research by alumnus Yunsup Lee (MS ’11/Ph.D. ’16), alumnus Andrew Waterman (M.S. ’11/Ph.D. ’16), and Prof. Krste Asanović, received $50.6M in series C funding in April. Lee is Chief Technology Officer, Waterman is Chief Engineer, and Asanović is Chief Architect at…