August 4, 2020
EECS alumnus Vikram Iyer (B.S. ’15) has won a Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award, which honors “the world’s most innovative young engineers in Information and Communications Technology (ICT).” Iyer’s research focusses on bio-inspired and bio-integrative wireless sensor systems that enable traditionally stationary Internet of Things (IoT) devices to…
July 29, 2020
EECS Alumna Chen-Nee Chuah (M.S. ’97/Ph.D. ’01, Advisor: Randy Katz) has won a UC Davis’ ADVANCE Scholar Award, which honors UC Davis faculty members for advancing diverse perspectives and gender equity in STEM. This award also recognizes Chuah’s research achievements in electrical and computer engineering. She joined the Department of…
July 20, 2020
In celebration of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley, the EECS Director Emerita of Diversity (and Berkeley 150W History Project co-chair) Sheila Humphreys tells the story of Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WiCSE), the first student group at an American university created to support and increase the number…
July 15, 2020
EECS alumnus John Maidens (PhD 2017) and his advisor EECS Prof. Murat Arcak have won the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Automatica Paper Prize for “Symmetry Reduction for Dynamic Programming,” co-authored by Axel Barrau and Silvère Bonnabel (Automatica vol. 97, pp. 367-375, 2018). This journal award recognizes “outstanding contributions…
July 1, 2020
CS alumna Barbara Simons (PhD 1981, advisor: Richard Karp) has won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Policy Award for long-standing, high-impact leadership. The award recognizes “an individual or small group that had a significant positive impact on the formation or execution of public policy affecting computing or the computing community.” …
June 15, 2020
The creators of BerkeleyDB (BDB) have won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award for their “seminal work in embodying simplicity, quality, and elegance in a high-performance key-value store that has impacted many systems and applications over the last 25…
June 9, 2020
EECS alumna Ming C. Lin (B.S./M.S./Ph.D. ’93, advisor: John Canny) has been elected to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) Academy. She is one of six scholars selected for membership this year, an honor which is reserved for individuals who have…
June 9, 2020
A paper co-written by EECS alumnus Peter Mattis (B.S. ’97) is being presented at the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) International Conference on Management of Data this month. The paper, titled “CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database,” describes a cloud-native, distributed SQL database…
June 8, 2020
EECS alumnus Michael Athans (B.S. ’58/M.S. ’59/Ph.D. ’61, adivsor: Otto J. M. Smith), a pioneer in the field of control theory, has died at the age of 83. Athans, who was born in Greece and graduated under the surname Athanassiades, had been a professor of electrical engineering at MIT…
June 8, 2020
EECS alumnus Gary S. May (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Costas Spanos), the first Black chancellor of UC Davis, has penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle titled “UC Davis chancellor: George Floyd could have been me” in which he observes that “at a traffic stop, no one knows I am…