September 18, 2019
EE alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Richard White) gave an insightful and inspirational presentation on Ice911 Research at the inaugural Global Climate Restoration Forum held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York yesterday. Field is the Founder and CEO of Ice911 Research, a non-profit focused on developing…
September 17, 2019
A paper by alumnus Vasily Volkov (Ph.D. ’16), now at Nvidia, and his advisor Prof. James Demmel has won the 2019 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC19) Test of Time Award. The paper, “Benchmarking GPUs to Tune Dense Linear Algebra,” which won the SC08 Best Student Paper Award when it was…
September 13, 2019
Two EECS faculty and one alumnus are the authors with the most number of papers accepted to the upcoming 2019 Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), one of the most popular and influential AI conferences in the world. CS Prof. Sergey Levine took the top spot with 12…
September 10, 2019
The Berkeley Campus Memorial, which will be held on Tuesday, September 10, from 12 noon to 1 pm, will honor 6 members of the EECS community who died this year: alumna and ICSI member Sally Floyd (M.S. ’87/Ph.D. ’89, advisor: Richard Karp), alumnus and EECS faculty-in-residence/advisor to CITRIS Jean Paul…
September 8, 2019
EECS graduate student Carlos Biaou (M.S. ’18, advisor: Vivek Subramanian) has won a UC Berkeley Sather Gate Young Volunteer Award. Berkeley volunteer awards are given to “people who give generously of their time and expertise to serve the Berkeley community.” Biaou was the president of the Black Graduate Engineering and…
September 5, 2019
EECS alumnus Bruce Hajek (Ph.D. ’79, advisor: Eugene Wong), who has been on the faculty of the Grainger College of Engineering, and a researcher in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 40 years, has been named head of UIUC’s Department of Electrical and Computer…
September 5, 2019
CS alumna Sally Floyd (M.S. ’87/Ph.D. ’89, advisor: Richard Karp), best known as one of the inventors of Random Early Detection (RED), an active queue management scheme widely credited with saving the internet from collapse in the 1990s, has died at age 69. Floyd graduated from Berkeley with a B.A.
August 27, 2019
EECS alumnus Richard Din (B.S. EECS/B.A. Econ ’08), the co-founder of revolutionary food-delivery app Caviar, has imagined and helped to create a small, select, new course being offerred fall semester through the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET). The course, which cannot be documented or attended by visitors, will…
August 26, 2019
Berkeley Remix Podcast Season 4, Episode 2, explores the contributions of UC Berkeley Engineering to the rise of the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley in the 1960s and 70s. “Berkeley Lightning: A Public University’s Role in the Rise of Silicon Valley” focuses on the development of SPICE, the first…
August 22, 2019
EECS students, postdocs, alumni, and faculty were front and center at the 28th USENIX Security Symposium in Santa Clara last week. In addition to the Test of Time and Distinguished Paper Awards (see below), Keynote Speaker Alex Stamos (B.S. ’01), previously the Chief Security Officer of Facebook, highlighted the threat model work of current…