January 14, 2021
EECS Prof. and alumnus Randy Katz (M.S. ’78 / Ph.D. ’80) has announced that he will be retiring in June 2021, and will step down as UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor for Research. During his tenure as vice chancellor, Katz demonstrated a deep commitment to research excellence at Berkeley, helping to…
January 12, 2021
Ambidextrous, a company co-founded in 2018 by CS Prof. Ken Goldberg, his graduate student Jeffrey Mahler (CS Ph.D. ’18), and AutoLab postdocs (and ME alumni) Stephen McKinley (M.S. ’14/Ph.D. ’16) and David Gealy (B.S. ’15), has won the inaugural Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) ‘Good Robot’ Innovation and Overall Excellence Industry…
December 14, 2020
EECS grad student and alumnus Jake Tibbetts (B.S. EECS/Global Studies ’20) has won the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ 2020 Leonard M. Rieser Award. Winners of the award have published essays in the Bulletin’s Voices of Tomorrow column, and are selected by the Bulletin’s editorial team for recognition as “outstanding emerging…
December 14, 2020
Learning-Based Oracle-Guided Compositional Symbiotic Design of CPS (LOGiCS), a project led by Prof. Sanjit Seshia with a team that includes Profs. Prabal Dutta, Björn Hartmann, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Claire Tomlin, and Shankar Sastry, as well as alumni Ankur Mehta (EECS Ph.D. ’12, advisor: Kris Pister) and Daniel Fremont (CS Ph.D. ’20,…
November 16, 2020
2013’s CS Distinguished Alumna, Cecilia Aragon (M.S. ’87/Ph.D. ’04, advisors: Shankar Sastry and Marti Hearst), the first Latina pilot on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team, and the first Latina full professor at the University of Washington, is the subject of an EECS 150W profile by Sheila Humphreys. The child of…
November 15, 2020
CS Prof. and alumna Dawn Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar) has won the 2020 ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Innovation Award. This award recognizes “outstanding and innovative technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering…
November 12, 2020
EECS alumnus and Prof. Ali Niknejad (M.S. ’97/Ph.D. ’00, advisor: Robert Meyer) has won the 2020 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Research Award. This award recognizes researchers in both technology and design who have made “a lifetime of great impact to the semiconductor industry.” Niknejad was cited for “noteworthy achievements…
October 26, 2020
“Extreme MRI: Large‐scale volumetric dynamic imaging from continuous non‐gated acquisitions,” a paper by EECS alumnus Frank Ong (B.S. ’13, Ph.D. ’18) and his advisor, Prof. Miki Lustig, has been chosen as October’s Reproducible Research pick by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). The paper, in which the researchers…
October 15, 2020
EECS Prof. Emeritus Michael Stonebraker has won the prestigious NEC Computers and Communications (C&C) Prize “For Pioneering Contributions to Relational Database Systems.” The prize is awarded “to distinguished persons in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and development and/or pioneering work in the fields of semiconductors, computers, and/or telecommunications and…
October 2, 2020
EECS alumna Dorsa Sadigh (BS ’12 / PhD ’17, advisors: Shankar Sastry and Sanjit Seshia) has been recognized with the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Early Career Award ‘‘for contributions to the theory, design, and implementation of human cyber-physical systems.’’ She is currently an Assistant Professor in the…