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…
May 26, 2020
EECS alumna Olivia Hsu (B.S. ’19) will be giving a speech at the national 2020 IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) virtual graduation celebration on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Hsu is the winner of the 2019 IEEE-HKN Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Electrical or Computer Engineering Student of the…
May 19, 2020
EECS alumna and Prof. Dawn Song…
May 18, 2020
CS alumnus Mark Hopkins (B.A. CS ’00) has been appointed to a tenure-track position in the department of Computer Science at Reed College in Oregon. He will be part of the division of Mathematical and Natural Resources where he will study uncertain reasoning and machine learning, with a particular interest…