February 16, 2021
EECS alumna Melody Ivory (M.S. 1996/Ph.D. 2001, advisor: Marti Hearst), the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, has been chosen as the keynote speaker who will close the 5th Annual Women in Tech Symposium, hosted at Berkeley on March 12, 2021. This year’s…
January 28, 2021
A team of researchers, including EECS graduate students Ali Moin, Andy Zhou, Alisha Menon, George Alexandrov, Jonathan Ting and Yasser Khan, Profs. Ana Arias and Jan Rabaey, postdocs Abbas Rahimi and Natasha Yamamoto, visiting scholar Simone Benatti, and BWRC research engineer Fred Burghardt, have created a new flexible armband that…
January 28, 2021
Computer Science Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe and Prof. and alumna Shafi Goldwasser (M.S. ’81/Ph.D. ’84, advisor: Manuel Blum) are slated to speak at the inaugural 24-hour virtual Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference, hosted by Stanford University on International Women’s Day, March 8th. WiDS first took shape at Stanford in…
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…