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…
January 8, 2020
EECS alumnus Warren “Woody” Hoburg (M.S. ’11/Ph.D. ’13, advisor: Pieter Abbeel) will be among the first candidates to graduate under NASA’s Artemis astronaut basic training program on Friday, Jan. 10, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Starting next week, Hoburg will be eligible for spaceflight assignments to the International Space…
December 27, 2019
Alumnus Kirk Tramble (B.S. EECS 1993) is both the son and father of proud UC Berkeley alumni. His father, Thomas, earned a B.A. in Sociology/African American Studies in 1971, and his son, Gabriel, graduated with a B.A. in Media Studies in 2018. The family is profiled in a Cal Alumni…