October 10, 2024
CS Associate Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize. Cheung was cited for his groundbreaking work on “verified lifting,” applying ideas from program synthesis to dramatically improve the end-to-end performance of database-backed applications. The Dahl-Nygaard Prizes, founded in 2004 by the Association Internationale Pour les Technologies Objets (AITO),…
October 9, 2024
EECS Assistant Professor Preeya Khana is one of two UC Berkeley computational biology and neuroscience scholars who received the New Innovator Award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency announced.
September 24, 2024
Verified Voting celebrated its 20th anniversary with a gathering that honored its efforts in securing elections. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi presented an award to Board Chair and CS alumna Barbara Simons (CS Ph.D. ‘81) for her dedication to election integrity. Simons emphasized the importance of “election hygiene” and urged…
September 23, 2024
Three CS grad students have been named Siebel Scholars for the class of 2025, each receiving a $35,000 grant for their research. Cade Gordon, Jessica Lin, and Oliver Yu were recognized for their academic excellence and leadership. Their work spans areas such as protein…
September 12, 2024
EECS Professor Laura Waller has been awarded a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal. The Max Planck-Humboldt Medal, awarded jointly by the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, recognizes unique individuals’ potential for the future as well as their innovative research projects. Waller was cited as a pioneer of computational…
September 3, 2024
EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has won the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Power Electronics Prize Letter Award for her groundbreaking paper, “A Piezoelectric-Resonator-Based DC-DC Converter Demonstrating 1 kW/cm^3 Resonator Power Density.” TPEL is the leading journal in power electronics. The paper by Boles, Bonavia, Lang, and Perreault…
August 19, 2024
EECS Professor Emeritus Paul Gray has won the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Simon Ramo Founders Award. The Simon Ramo Founders Award, established in 1965, is one of the NAE’s highest honors. The award recognizes an outstanding member who embodies the Academy’s ideals through exceptional achievement in their professional, educational,…
August 9, 2024
EECS Professor Alex Bayen will receive multiple IEEE awards for his work in transportation this year. Following the MegaVandertest large-scale mixed-autonomy traffic experiment conducted by the CIRCLES consortium in 2022 under the leadership of Alex Bayen, the project has been honored with the 2024 IEEE…
August 6, 2024
EECS Professor Trevor Darrell and his team have been awarded the prestigious Test-of-Time Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) for their 2014 paper, “DeCAF: A Deep Convolutional Activation Feature for Generic Visual Recognition.” The award celebrates the lasting impact of a paper over the past 10 years…
July 17, 2024
EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has won an ARPA-E Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE) Early Career Award. Boles is one of 23 recipients receiving approximately $500,000 to advance their research and convert “disruptive ideas into impactful energy technologies.” The IGNIITE 2024 selectees were…