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…
October 4, 2019
CS alumnus and Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia (M.S. ‘ 95, Ph.D. ’00, advisor: Brian Barsky) is the subject of a profile celebrating Latinx Heritage Month in the EECS department. As a Nuyorican whose father was from Puerto Rico, Garcia “always coveted” his Hispanic heritage and actively explored as much of…
September 30, 2019
CS Prof. and alumnus Armando Fox (Ph.D. ’98, advisor: Eric Brewer) is the subject of a profile celebrating Latinx Heritage Month in the EECS community. Fox is the child of Cuban refugees who taught him to “pave the road” for those who follow. He was born in New York City…
September 30, 2019
5th Year CS Master’s students Alvin Kao (B.S. ’19) and Titan Yuan (B.S. ’19) have been named to the Siebel Scholars Foundation’s 2020 class. Kao is working on problems in the autonomous vehicle setting, like predicting the behavior of other agents and trajectory planning. Yuan is working with the Swarm…
September 26, 2019
EECS Prof. Emeritus and alumnus Edward Lee (Ph.D. ’86, advisor: David Messerschmitt) is the subject of a profile created as part of the EECS Latinx Heritage Month celebration. Lee discusses some of his Puerto Rican ancestors, including poet/playwright Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, considered one of the fathers of Puerto Rican literature, and…
September 18, 2019
CS alumnus Feng Zhou (Ph.D. ’07, advisor: Eric Brewer) is the subject of a Bloomberg article titled “The U.S.-trained coder is helping NetEase find new life beyond games.” To help the company remain competitive, NetEase Youdao CEO Zhou is creating an all-in-one learning platform to tap the lucrative overlap between…
September 18, 2019
EECS alumnus Feisal Jaffer (B.S. ’97) is the new global head for Hilton’s luxury LXR Hotels and Resorts brand. He previous held positions as senior vice president of business development for Capella Hotel Group, part of Pontiac Land Group, and Pontiac’s senior vice president for acquisitions and development. Hilton launched…