November 27, 2017
Prof. Ana Claudia Arias, Prof. Miki Lustig, and graduate student Joseph Corea, are featured in a STAT article titled “Electronics ‘like a second skin’ make wearables more practical and MRIs safer for kids.” The team is using printers loaded with a variety of high-tech inks (liquid silver nanoparticles, carbon…
November 13, 2017
CS alumnus Wu-Fu Chen (Ph.D. ’77) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Crown Bioscience Inc., a global drug discovery and development company. Chen is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Acorn Campus Ventures and Partner Emeritus at Mobility Ventures LLC. He started more than a dozen companies,…
November 9, 2017
Start-up Embodied Intelligence, founded by Prof. Pieter Abbeel and his grad students Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang, raised $7M in a seed round yesterday led by venture capital firm Amplify Partners. VC firms Lux Capital, SV Angels, FreeS, 11.2 Capital, and A. Capital also supplied capital. Embodied Intelligence…
November 8, 2017
EECS junior Rohan Phadte and fellow student Ash Bhat launched their Chrome browser extension, Botcheck.me, on Halloween and it is already proving invaluable. The app determines whether news posts on Twitter likely came from real people or were generated by a bot. When an armed gunman attacked the congregants…
November 7, 2017
The start-up Embodied Intelligence and its founders, Prof. Pieter Abbeel and grad students Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang, are the focus of two news articles: one from the New York Times titled “A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up,” and one from Berkeley News…
November 1, 2017
EECS alumnus Amit Kumar (B.S. ’03) and the venture firm Accel are launching a mentorship program called Accel Scholars to support EECS undergraduates. Accel will work with a select group of students over the course of a year, hosting networking dinners and also guaranteeing the students an internship at a portfolio…
October 26, 2017
Mattel has launched a line of biologically inspired foldable robot bugs designed in collaboration with Dash Robots, a spin-off of the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab (BML). The researchers at BML, under the direction of Prof. Ron Fearing, draw inspiration from nature to build more efficient robotics. The new toys, called …
October 26, 2017
The experiences of EECS freshman Rebecca Chery, a participant in the Pre-Engineering Program (PREP), are described in a Berkeley Engineering article titled “PREP by design.” PREP is a three-week program that gives incoming engineering majors a head start on academics, networking and professional development. Chery’s team used equipment at…
October 2, 2017
CS majors Jimmy Liu and Zuhayeer Musa are featured in a Berkeley News article titled “In undergrad startup class, students learn to build the future.” Liu and Musa co-founded a startup called Bash while still in high school. When they came to Cal, they partnered with CS Prof. Scott…
September 28, 2017
EECS alumnus Shahin Farshchi (B.S. ’02) is the subject of one of a series of Iranian Americans’ Contributions Project (IACP) interviews that explore the personal and professional backgrounds of prominent Iranian-Americans who have made seminal contributions to their fields. Farshchi is currently a Partner at Lux Capital Management where he has…