November 4, 2024
Alumni
October 25, 2024
Alumnus Yasser Khan named Packard Fellow
EECS alumnus Yasser Khan (Ph.D. ’18, Advisor: Ana Arias) has been honored by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation as one of the 2024 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. This prestigious fellowship provides recipients with the freedom to explore innovative ideas and advance cutting-edge technology through unrestricted funding and…
October 17, 2024
Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu receive Teaching Effectiveness Award
EECS grads Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu have received Teaching Effectiveness Awards for 2024. The Graduate Division’s Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs honors those who devise solutions to teaching or learning problems they have identified in their classes and write them up in a one-page essay. These essays are published…
October 3, 2024
UC Library shares oral history of EECS Professor Emeritus William “Bill” Oldham
The oral history of William “Bill” Oldham, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences, is now online in the UC Berkeley Library’s digital collections. Oldham joined the faculty in 1964, where he was an expert on process technology, as well as the co-founder and…
September 24, 2024
Alumna Barbara Simons honored by Verified Voting
Verified Voting celebrated its 20th anniversary with a gathering that honored its efforts in securing elections. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi presented an award to Board Chair and CS alumna Barbara Simons (CS Ph.D. ‘81) for her dedication to election integrity. Simons emphasized the importance of “election hygiene” and urged…
September 20, 2024
Sehat Sutardja, semiconductor pioneer and Marvell co-founder, has died
Sehat Sutardja ((M.S.’85, Ph.D.’88 EECS), a pioneer of the modern semiconductor industry, has died at the age of 63. The co-founder of Marvell Technology, he helped foster a culture of innovation at Berkeley Engineering through his generous support.
July 11, 2024
Berkeley CS alum wins second place at ACM Student Research Competition
CS alum Amar Shah received second place in the undergraduate category of the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) Grand Finals. The year-long competition involves 323 computer science students presenting research projects at 21 ACM conferences, culminating in the SRC Grand Finals where three winners are…
July 8, 2024
Berkeley EECS win awards at CVPR
CS Assistant Professor Angjoo Kanazawa has won the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Young Researcher Award. The award recognizes researchers who have made distinguished contributions to Computer Vision within seven years of receiving their Ph.D. Kanazawa currently leads the Kanazawa AI Research (KAIR) Lab under…
May 31, 2024
Governor Newsom convenes GenAI leaders for landmark summit
California Governor Gavin Newsom and leaders representing technology, government, academia, labor, civic organizations and more convened at the Joint California Summit on Generative AI to collaborate on and examine this transformative technology. The summit included CDSS Dean and EECS Professor Jennifer Chayes, EECS Associate Professor Matei Zaharia, and EECS alumna…
May 20, 2024
CDSS celebrates students’ resilience at inaugural college graduation
“You have achieved an impressive feat, not only because you’ve completed a demanding curriculum, but also because you’ve been doing this during a time of historic change and challenge, beginning with a global pandemic and now – during your years here – widespread social unrest,” said Jennifer Chayes, dean of the new college that…