May 5, 2020
EECS alumna Andrea Goldsmith (B.A. ’86/M.S. ’91/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: Pravin Varaiya), who was named Berkeley EE Distinguished Alumna in 2018, has been named dean of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Goldsmith has been a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford since 1999 and is a leader in the fields of…
May 4, 2020
Alumnus Courtney Brousseau (B.A. CS/Econ ’19) has died after being injured as a bystander in a drive-by shooting in the Mission District of San Francisco. Brousseau was an active member of the Berkeley community while a student, serving as a CS tutor and acting as chair of the ASUC Student…
April 16, 2020
EECS Prof. and alumna Dawn Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar) and Assistant Prof. Raluca Ada Popa are featured in the cover story for the Spring 2020 issue of the Berkeley Engineer titled “Reinventing Cybersecurity.” Faced with the challenge of protecting users’ personal data while recognizing that sharing access to…
March 30, 2020
EECS Prof. Emeritus and alumnus Arthur Gill (Ph.D. ’59, advisor: Aram Thomasian) died on March 21, 2020, at the age of 90. Gill joined the EECS faculty in 1960, just after earning his doctorate, and was one of the first professors at Berkeley to hold positions in both EE and…
March 6, 2020
EE Prof. and alumnus Chenming Hu (M.S. ’70, Ph.D. ’73), who won the 2020 IEEE Medal of Honor, has chosen to donate his $50K prize to the EECS department. Hu, who was cited “for a distinguished career of developing and putting into practice semiconductor models, particularly 3D device structures, that…
March 3, 2020
UC Berkeley ranked a very close second on Gradreports’ list of “25 Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering 2020.” The rankings are based on the median salary of students who graduated with a B.S. in EE one year after college. Graduates of MIT and Berkeley both earned a median salary of…
February 25, 2020
Research on Microrelays presented at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) by Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu and alumna/graduate student, Xiaoer Hu (M.S. ’18), is highlighted in an IEEE Spectrum article titled “4 Ways to Make Bigger Quantum Computers.” It is difficult to scale quantum computers because quantum-computer processors must operate…
February 7, 2020
Valerie Taylor (EECS Ph.D. ’91, advisor: David Messerschmitt), one of the winners of the 2020 EE Distinguished Alumni Award to be presented next week, is also the subject of our February EECS 150W profile in honor of Black History Month. Taylor grew up in a STEM-forward family and attended Purdue…
January 22, 2020
EECS alumnus Roger U. Fujii (M.S. ’68) has won the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) 2020 Richard E. Merwin Award for Distinguished Service. The Merwin Award is the Computer Society’s highest-level volunteer service award, and is presented to “individuals for outstanding volunteer service to the profession at large, including significant…
January 16, 2020
In celebration of the anniversary of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley (150W) in 2020, the EECS department will profile a number of remarkable women who have studied or worked here. This month, Berkeley EECS is highlighting ten trailblazing women who were the first to reach important milestones over the…