January 12, 2017
Alumnus Asad A. Abidi (EE MS ’78/PhD ’81, EE Distinguished Alumni 2015) will be the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair in the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. The Chair is named in honor of theoretical physicist…
January 3, 2017
Alumnus Kylan Nieh (CS BA/Business BS 2014) has made the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology list. While still a student, Kylan started his own public speaking and leadership course at the Haas School of Business and became the youngest recipient of the Business Teacher of the Year…
December 21, 2016
Alumnus Stephen W. Director (EE M.S. ’67/Ph.D. ’68) has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors this year. The title recognizes “academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of…
December 21, 2016
Imperva has named alumnus Roger Sippl (CS BS ’77 ) to its board of directors. Sippl is a Silicon Valley software pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator. He founded Informix Software (now part of IBM) in 1980, when he was just 24, to develop and commercialize SQL relational database software. He subsequently…
December 21, 2016
Alumnus Peter Norvig (CS Ph.D. ’86), now Director of Research at Google, is profiled in a Forbes magazine article titled “Artificial Intelligence Pioneers: Peter Norvig, Google.” The article describes Norvig’s history and accomplishments, and outlines his thoughts on human-machine partnerships and the disparate goals of neuroscience and AI research.
December 19, 2016
Alumnus Nicholas Weaver (CS B.A. ’95/ Ph.D. ’03), who now works at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) as a security expert, was interviewed by Leandra Bernstein of ABC 33/40 for an in-depth article titled Questions remain over Russian responsibility for passing stolen DNC emails to WikiLeaks. “All the…
December 13, 2016
Alumna Valerie Taylor (EE M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’91), now a computer science professor at Texas A&M University, has been named a 2016 Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Taylor is one of 53 ACM members honored for their contributions to computer science. She is being lauded for her…
December 6, 2016
Alumnus Paul Debevec (Ph.D. 1996) is the subject of a Cartoon Brew interview titled “Paul Debevec: A Name You Absolutely Need to Know in CG, VFX, Animation, and VR.” Paul’s insights into virtual cinematography, image-based lighting (IBL), and the crafting of photoreal virtual humans inspired several films, including The…
November 22, 2016
Jean Paul Jacob (M.S. ’65 and Ph.D. ’66) has been awarded a medal of the Rio Blanco Order, one of the highest honors of the Brazilian Government, in part for his work with the College of Engineering as faculty-in-residence in EECS and as special advisor to the Center for Information…
November 18, 2016
EECS alumna Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. ’94) co-founded Quantenna in 2005 to build a product and company around her research in adaptive multiple-antenna (MIMO) wireless communications. After seed funding for Quantenna was secured from Sequoia Capital in March of 2006, Goldsmith took a leave of…