April 17, 2019
Third-year Computer Science undergraduate Nolan Pokpongkiat is the third place winner of the KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize, funded by the U.C. Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. The prize recognizes “students who have developed innovative strategies to increase opportunities for children and youth, as well as…
February 22, 2019
CS alumna Diane Greene (M.S. ’88) has won a 2019 U. C. Berkeley Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award. This award “recognizes an alumnus/a whose remarkable professional achievements reflect the excellence of a UC Berkeley education” and is co-presented every year by the UC Berkeley Foundation and the Cal Alumni Association. Greene recently…
February 12, 2019
The city of Berkeley took the #6 spot on Livability’s ranking of “2019 10 Best Cities for Techies.” Cities were judged on factors that included: the proximity to top engineering, technology, and computer science degree programs; state internet coverage; top startup accelerators, incubators, and growth; and top environments for entrepreneurs. …
December 12, 2018
Michael Brenndoerfer, now a Senior Software Engineer at Fitbit, founded a cryptocurrency brokerage platform called Cryptonite last year while pursuing his EECS Master of Engineering (MEng) degree full-time. The Cryptonite platform allows people to trade every cryptocurrency directly with USD and manage all their coins in one place. “For the last…
November 2, 2018
EECS alumna Theresa H. Meng (M.S. ’85/Ph.D. ’88 advisor: David Messerschmitt) has won the 2018 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ) SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award. This award is given for significant and lasting contributions to the research on mobile computing and communications and wireless networking. Meng, who is a Professor…
October 26, 2018
Chip Track, the microchip design innovation segment of Berkeley startup accelerator SkyDeck, is profiled in an Xconomy article titled “Berkeley’s SkyDeck Offers Chip Design Support Worth Millions to Startups.” Unlike software developers, chip inventors need cash up front to produce prototypes to show how they run. “We’re talking about many…
October 26, 2018
EECS alumna Theresa H. Meng (M.S. ’85/Ph.D. ’88 advisor: David Messerschmitt) has been named to the Board of Directors for Ambarella, Inc., a leading developer of low-power, HD and Ultra HD video processing semiconductors. Meng is a Professor Emerita at Stanford University who took leave in 1998 to found Atheros…
October 15, 2018
EECS undergraduates Aviral Pandey (EE lead), Olivia Hsu (board design/firmware), Kevin Zheng (board design/software/radio) and Malhar Patel (external/software), as well as Travis Brashears (Eng. Physics/EECS minor, tech lead) and Daniel Shen (MechE, software/mechanical) comprise a team of Berkeley seniors who are creating what they hope will be the smallest maneuverable…
October 8, 2018
EECS alumnus Allen Tsai (B.S. ’00), the founder of startup Pani, is profiled in the “Today’s Entrepreneur” column for startup and investor network, Vator. Pani is a smart-home company that builds products to help consumers and utilities measure, monitor, and recycle water. It recently raised $1 million in seed funding…
October 5, 2018
Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity and writing solutions, has acquired Gradescope, a class grading platform co-founded by CS Prof. Pieter Abbeel and alumni Arjun Singh (B.S. EECS ’10/Ph.D. CS ’16), Sergey Karayev (CS Ph.D. ’15), and Ibrahim Awwal (EECS B.S.