July 9, 2021
A new AI system, Rapid Motor Adaptation (RMA), enhances the ability of legged robots, without prior experience or calibration, to adapt to, and traverse, unfamiliar terrain in real time. A test robot figured out how to walk on sand, mud, and tall grass, as well as piles of dirt, pebbles,…
May 12, 2021
EECS alumna and current Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe (B.S. ’20) is the subject of an article in the Spring 2021 Berkeley Engineer titled “Cultivating female coders in Africa.” During the COVID pandemic shutdown, Tumushabe developed a program called Afro Fem Coders to allow her to remotely teach computer programming to…
April 20, 2021
EECS alumnus Yang You (Ph.D. ’20, advisor: James Demmel) has been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 Asia list for Healthcare and Science. Yang, who is now a Presidential Young Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, studies Machine Learning, Parallel/Distributed Algorithms, and High-Performance Computing. The…
April 19, 2021
EE alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Richard White), who is the founder and CTO of the Arctic Ice Project and an adjunct lecturer at Sanford, will be a co-panelist in a webinar titled “Reflections on Arctic Ice: A special webinar with Dr. Peter Wadhams.” Wadhams, a professor emeritus…
March 31, 2021
CS alumnae Maryann Simmons (B.A. / M.S./ Ph.D. ’01, advisor: Carlo Séquin) and Hayley Iben (M.S. ’05/Ph.D. ’07, advisor: James O’Brien) have won 2020 Technical Achievement Awards (SciTech Oscars) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for hair simulation systems. Simmons is now a senior staff software engineer and…
March 16, 2021
Berkeley EECS has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize the valuable contributions of its most distinguished alumni. The 2021 Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS) on February 11, 2021. Electrical Engineering Hsing Kung Ph.D. 1975, advisor: William OldhamManaging Partner of…
February 24, 2021
CS alumna Anne-Louise Guichard Radimsky (M.S. ’67/Ph.D. 1973, advisor: Philip Spira), one of the first women to earn an EECS doctorate from Berkeley, died in July 2020 at the age of 79. She was born in France during WWII and earned a B.S. in systems theory with a specialization in avionics…
February 19, 2021
Three amazing EECS alumnae are featured on the Berkeley 150W website in celebration of Black History Month: Arlene Cole-Rhodes (Ph.D. ’89, advisor: Shankar Sastry), the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Berkeley; Melody Ivory (M.S. ’96/Ph.D. ’01, advisor: Marti Hearst), the first Black woman…
February 17, 2021
CS alumnus Scott Aaronson (Ph.D. ’04, advisor: Umesh Vazirani) ranked #4, Prof. Emeritus Manuel Blum ranked #11, alumna and Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (M.S. ’81/Ph.D. ’84, advisor: Manuel Blum) ranked #12, and Prof. Stuart Russell ranked #14 on Academic Influence’s list of the Top Influential Computer Scientists from 2010 to 2020. …
February 16, 2021
Databricks, a cloud startup founded by CS Adjunct Assistant Prof. Ali Ghodsi, CS Prof. Scott Shenker, CS Prof. Ion Stoica, and alumni Andrew Konwinski (M.S. ’09/Ph.D. 12, advisor: Randy Katz), Reynold Xin (Ph.D. ’13, advisor: Ion Stoica), Patrick Wendell (M.S. ’13, advisor: Ion Stoica), and Matei Zaharia (Ph.D. ’13, advisors:…