July 17, 2019
Recent CS alumnus Shawn Magee (B.A. ’19) and Haas student Raja Riahi are developing an app called Wymbo to help UC Berkeley students navigate the campus’s many events and activities. They co-founded Wymbo inside Berkeley startup accelerator SkyDeck as a discovery platform: students choose what types of subjects they’re interested…
July 5, 2019
An untethered bee robot co-created by EE alumnus Robert J. Wood (PhD ’04, advisor: Ron Fearing) graces the cover the of the June 2019 issue of Nature magazine and is the subject of a Wired article titled “What Could Possibly Be Cooler Than RoboBee? RoboBee X-Wing.” Wood, now a professor…
July 1, 2019
CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson, his former graduate student Zhangxi Tan (PhD ’13), and Lin Zhang of the Tsinghua-UC Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), have been chosen to co-direct the new RISC-V International Open Source (RIOS) Laboratory, an non-profit research lab launched by the TBSI. RIOS aims to expand and elevate…
July 1, 2019
The Community Memory Project, a 1970’s era counterculture experiment co-founded by EECS alumnus Lee Felsenstein (B.S. ’72), is the subject of an article in California Magazine titled “’We’re Using a Computer’: Was Social Media Invented in Berkeley?” Members of the public were invited to interface with a carboard box “terminal”…
June 25, 2019
EECS alumna Gitanjali Swamy (Ph.D. ’97) testified in defense of a proposed bill (S939) she helped to draft which calls for sexual harassment and discrimination laws in Massachusetts to apply not only to employers but to investors and financiers as well–particularly private investors such as venture capitalists. The purpose of…
June 18, 2019
According to Crunchbase News, UC Berkeley graduated 108 startup founders–not including business school graduates –who raised $1M or more after May 1, 2018. This makes Berkeley the top-ranked public university, and the third-ranked university of any kind after Stanford and MIT, in founding graduates. In the Crunchbase tally of all…
June 17, 2019
A paper written by recent graduate Elizaveta Tremsina (B.S. ’19 CS/Physics/Applied Math) has taken third place in the undergraduate category of the 2019 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals. The paper, titled “Your Story Recorded in a Magnet: Micromagnetic Simulations of Spin-Orbit Torque in Multi-layer Structures,” was a continuation…
June 12, 2019
EECS alumna Nadia Heninger (B.S. ’04) has won the 2019 Borg Early Career Award (BECA). The BECA is given to a woman in computer science and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions and who has contributed to her profession, especially in the outreach to women. After graduation, Heninger earned…
June 5, 2019
CS alumnus Mark D. Hill (Ph.D. ’87, advisers: David Patterson and Alan J. Smith) has won the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award, considered the most prestigious award in the computer architecture community. Hill, who is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, was cited “for contributions to memory consistency models…
May 29, 2019
A paper co-authored by freshly minted alumnus Tianshi Wang (Ph.D. ’19, winner of the 2019 EECS David Sakrison Memorial Prize for “truly outstanding research”) and Prof. Jaijeet Roychowdhury has won Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) 2019. The paper, titled “OIM: Oscillator-based…