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…
December 11, 2019
RISC-V, a royalty-free microprocessor architecture first developed at Berkeley, is emerging as a rival to Arm, the most successful microchip architecture in the world. The first RISC-V chip was built in 2011 as part of the open source Peer Lab Project by CS Prof. and alumnus Krste Asanović (Ph.D. ’98, advisor:…
December 11, 2019
EECS Prof. and alumna Dawn Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar) has been selected as a 2019 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Song was cited “For contributions to security and privacy” and is now part of an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership. …
November 19, 2019
EECS alumnus Mark Lee McKelvin Jr (M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’11, advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli), has won the 2020 BEYA (Black Engineer of the Year Award) STEM Most Promising Engineer in Industry Award. The award, which is sponsored by Career Communications Group (publisher of “US Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine”) is…
November 12, 2019
Two papers co-authored by Berkeley EECS authors won ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Awards at the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2019. “Duet: An Expressive Higher-Order Language and Linear Type System for Statically Enforcing Differential Privacy” co-authored by Prof. Dawn Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar), graduate…
November 12, 2019
CS alumna and Prof. Down Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar) is the subject of a New York Times article titled “Building a World Where Data Privacy Exists Online.” One of the world’s foremost experts in computer security and trustworthy artificial intelligence, Song founded a startup called Oasis Labs to…
October 23, 2019
The paper “Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis,” co-authored by alumnus Susmit Jha (M.S./Ph.D. ’11), Sumit Gulwani (Ph.D. ’05, advisor: George Necula), EECS Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia, and Ashish Tiwari–and part of Susmit Jha’s Ph.D. dissertation advised by Sanjit Seshia–will receive the 2020 Most Influential Paper Award by the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). ICSE is…
October 23, 2019
A computer algorithm co-developed by Vision Group alumnus Weicheng Kuo (Ph.D. ’19), post doc Christian Hӓne, their advisor Prof. Jitendra Malik, and researchers at UCSF, bested two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans, an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients…
October 7, 2019
An outstanding group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni, represented Berkeley EECS at the 2019 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, which took place in San Diego in September. Attendees included: Profs. Dan Garcia and Armando Fox; staff Audrey Sillers, Antoine Davis, and Sheila Humphreys; alumni Valerie Taylor…