Alumni

andrewng

March 9, 2017

Andrew Ng on why Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity

CS alumnus Andrew Ng (Ph.D. ’02), Chief Scientist at Baidu, founder of Google Brain, co-founder of Coursera, and Stanford adjunct professor, describes in a video on Inside HPC how artificial intelligence is transforming the industrial landscape.  He compares the impact of AI to that of electricity, which radically transformed…

garyhornbuckle

March 9, 2017

Gary Hornbuckle, founder of Applicon, Inc. has died

Alumnus Gary Dean Hornbuckle (EE B.S. ’61/M.S. ’62/Ph.D. ’67), a pioneer in the computing industry who formed a number of his own companies, passed away on March 1, 2017.  He spent 2 years on the research staff at M.I.T. before forming Applicon, Inc. in 1969, one of the first Computer…

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March 9, 2017

Sarah Bergbreiter engineers submillimeter-sized robotic systems

EECS alumna Sarah Bergbreiter (M.S. ’04/Ph.D. ’07) is  the subject of a profile  by the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland celebrating female engineering faculty during women’s history month.  Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research,…

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March 9, 2017

Anca Dragan and Yoky Matsuoka are taking charge in 2017

CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan and EECS alumna Yoky Matsuoka (B.S. ’93) are among Interesting Engineering‘s “17 Awesome Women Engineers” who are revolutionizing the engineering field in 2017.  Anca is described as “one of the rising stars of the robotics scene” as the head of the InterACT Lab…

gary-may

February 21, 2017

Gary May selected to be Chancellor of UC Davis

Dr. Gary May has been selected to become the 7th Chancellor of UC Davis. Dr. May is an alumnus of EECS (M.S. ’88 and Ph.D. ’92) and was one of the founding members of the Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students (BGESS) group. In 2010, he was named Outstanding Electrical…

wangyongdong

February 8, 2017

Yongdong Wang named Global Senior Vice President at Microsoft

Alumnus Yongdong Wang (CS Ph.D. ’92),  currently Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, has been named Microsoft’s Global Senior Vice President.  Wang joined Microsoft in 2009, founding the Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group in Beijing, and took on the additional role of managing director of Applications & Services Group…

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January 18, 2017

Leslie Field develops technology to deal with climate change

EECS alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88, Ph.D. ’91) is featured in a Berkeley Engineering news article titled “One big reflective band-aid”. After watching Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006, Field was inspired to develop a technology to deal with climate change. The following year she began testing ideas…

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January 18, 2017

Bob Jewett rules billiards

Alumnus Bob Jewett (EECS BS ’75/M.S. ’79) is profiled in a Berkeley Engineer article titled “Bob Jewett’s double life” which describes the retired HP/Agilent/Keysight engineer’s life-long fascination with the rules and science of billiards.  Bob has published hundreds of articles on subjects like table friction, shots that depend on…

towerviewhealth

January 17, 2017

Ankur Aggarwal makes Forbes 30 Under 30 in healthcare

Alumnus Ankur Aggarwal (EECS M.Eng.’12) has been named in Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 list,  a compilation of the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers across 20  industries.  Ankur and his college roommates teamed up to found TowerView Health, which sells a smart pill box with custom trays…

silvio

January 12, 2017

Silvio Micali’s new public ledger: ALGORAND

Alumnus Silvio Micali (CS PhD ’82, CS Distinguished Alumni 2006) has published a paper called ALGORAND The Efficient and Democratic Ledger where he lays out a groundbreaking new vision of a decentralized and secure way to manage a shared ledger that provides a beautifully elegant solution to the Byzantine General’s problem. …