April 26, 2024
EECS Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lenore Blum, professor in residence, and alumna Nancy Amato, (M.S. 88; advisor: Manuel Blum) were also named on the list of 250 newly elected members. Founded in 1780, the American Academy…
April 23, 2024
Sayeef Salahuddin, TSMC Distinguished professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, has been elected as a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was recognized “for distinguished contributions to electronic device science and engineering, in particular for inventing negative capacitance devices with potential for…
March 26, 2024
CS alumnus Hao Zhang, Ph.D. ‘07 (Advisor: Jitendra Malik) has gifted 1M to Berkeley EECS. The generous gift will establish an endowed professorship to support junior faculty. The Zhang Family Endowed Professorship was inspired by the role that Berkeley faculty played in his life: “The mentorship and support I received…
March 20, 2024
Berkeley Math alumna Tandy Warnow (Ph.D. ’91) has won the International Society for Computational Biology’s Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award. The annual award recognizes a member of the computational biology community, more than two decades post-degree, who has made major contributions to the field. Warnow is currently a professor, and the…
March 19, 2024
EECS and Astronomy Professor Emeritus William “Jack” Welch died on March 10, 2024. He was 90. Welch was a pioneer in molecular radio astronomy, who together with Charles Townes used a radio telescope to make the first detections of ammonia and water in interstellar space. This…
March 11, 2024
The New York Times profiles Covariant, an Emeryville-based AI and robotics company founded by CS Professor Pieter Abbeel and his former students, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang.
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 8, 2024
Black Lives at Cal adds the Joseph Gier Memorial to UC Berkeley’s first self-guided Black history tour. Black Lives at Cal (BLAC) is a multi-year initiative formed in 2021 “to celebrate, defend, and advance the legacy of Black people at the University of California, Berkeley.
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 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…