March 12, 2024
EECS Associate Professor Björn Hartmann has been elected to the Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Academy. The SIGCHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to shaping the field of human-computer interaction. Hartmann co-founded the CITRIS Invention Lab in 2012 and previously…
March 11, 2024
EECS Assistant Teaching Professor Lisa Yan has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs. The annual award recognizes faculty members who have provided outstanding pedagogical mentorship to GSIs. The award is sponsored by the Graduate Council’s Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs and…
March 5, 2024
CS Assistant Professor Natacha Crooks has won the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering Rising Star Award. Crooks was cited “for contributions to distributed data management, and its applications to blockchain technology, security, and cloud computing.” The award will be presented at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering,…
February 26, 2024
EECS Professors Kris Pister, Borivoje Nikolic, and Ali Niknejad have won the IEEE SSCS Innovative Education Award for their pioneering efforts in the creation of an integrated circuit ‘tapeout’ course. The instructors took a cohort of largely undergraduate students from the design phase of a chip to its manufacture all…
February 21, 2024
Nika Haghtalab, Preeya Khanna, and Sophia Shao are among the nine young faculty at UC Berkeley named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows. Of the 306 Sloan Research Fellowships awarded to UC Berkeley faculty since 1955, 45 are EECS professors. The Sloan Research Fellowship is “awarded annually to early-career researchers whose creativity,…
February 9, 2024
EE Professor Emeritus Chenming Hu will be honored at the International House Celebration and Awards Gala on March 21st. Known as the “Father of the 3D Transistor,” Hu is cited “for his contributions to the semiconductor industry which have led to transformative improvements in computing…
February 9, 2024
Quanta Magazine profiled Lenore Blum, a professor-in-residence at Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. “I had never wanted to think of myself as a woman mathematician, but I started realizing I had a role to play.”
February 7, 2024
EECS Professor Ion Stoica has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Stoica was honored “for networked systems for large-scale data processing, analytics, and machine learning.” He joins 114 newly elected members, as well as 21 international members to be inducted into the NAE, which is among…
February 6, 2024
EECS Professor Robert Brodersen, co-founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), passed away on February 1st, 2024. He was 78. Professor Brodersen was born in Brush, Colorado. He attended California Polytechnic State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and mathematics in 1966. He…
February 5, 2024
EE alumna Amy Wendt (M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88) has won the 2024 EDGE in Tech Athena Award for Academic Leadership. The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) confers four categories of awards to exceptional pioneers in diversity, equity, and…