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…
May 23, 2019
Moses Surumen, who graduated with a degree in EECS this week, has been sharing his knowledge with peers in Kenya for the past two years, helping them develop the skills to solve challenges back home. Surumen, who has 10 siblings, grew up in Kajiado, a Masai area south of Nairobi. …
May 15, 2019
Recent graduate Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18, advisors: Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine), has won the prestigious ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is presented annually to “the author(s) of the best doctoral dissertation(s) in computer science and engineering.” In her dissertation, “Learning to Learn with Gradients,” Finn introduced algorithms for meta-learning…
April 29, 2019
Assistant Teaching Prof. and EE alumna Gireeja Ranade (MS ’09/PhD ’14, advisor: Anant Sahai) is part of an article in Nature titled “Junior AI researchers are in demand by universities and industry.” Ranade worked at Microsft Research in Washington after graduating from Berkeley but before joining the EECS faculty. She…
April 22, 2019
CS alumnus Mendel Rosenblum (MS ’89/PhD ’92) has been honored with the inaugural ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Rosenblum, who is currently a professor at Stanford, is being recognized “for reinventing the virtual machine for the modern era and thereby revolutionizing datacenters and enabling modern cloud computing.” …
April 18, 2019
Professor Claire Tomlin (Ph.D. ‘98) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States and serves the nation as a champion of scholarship, civil dialogue and useful knowledge. Members are nominated and elected by peers,…