February 24, 2022
Three EECS alumnae are featured in a 150W Black Women Matter web page recognizing the legacies of Black women at Cal as part of the 2022 Black History Month celebrations. The web page, which was put together by EECS Emerita Director of Diversity Sheila Humphreys, highlights 31 Cal pioneers whose…
February 21, 2022
Lee Julian Purnell is the first Black student who is known to have graduated from the EECS department. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, graduated from Berkeley High in 1915, was a superb track athlete, and earned a B.A. from Cal in 1919. He got his B.S. in Electrical…
February 21, 2022
Lee Julian Purnell is the first Black student known to have graduated from the EECS department. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, graduated from Berkeley High in 1915, earned a B.A. from Cal in 1919, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1921, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Berkeley in 1929. He settled into a career at Howard University where he eventually became Dean of Engineering.
January 24, 2022
CS alumna Prof. Marti Hearst (B.A. ’85/M.S ’89./Ph.D. ’94, advisor: Robert Wilensky), whose primary appointment is in the School of Information, has been named to the 2021 inaugural class of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy. SIGIR Academy membership recognizes the “principal leaders in IR” who…
January 13, 2022
Alumni Eric Fosler-Lussier (Ph.D. 1999, advisor: Nelson Morgan) and Luca Daniel (Ph.D. 2003, advisor: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli) have been named 2022 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The grade of Fellow is conferred upon a members of IEEE “with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the…
January 10, 2022
EECS alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. ’90/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: C. V. Ramamoorthy), has been awarded the 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal. The award recognizes “outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering, of great impact to IEEE fields of interest.” Chandrakasan, who is currently an EECS professor at MIT and…
January 10, 2022
EECS alumnus Warren “Woody” Hoburg (M.S. ’11/Ph.D. ’13, advisor: Pieter Abbeel), one of the first graduates of NASA’s Artemis astronaut basic training program in 2020, has been assigned to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission – the sixth crew rotation flight aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International…
December 8, 2021
2003 Distinguished CS Alumnus Madhu Sudan (Ph.D. ’92, advisor: Umesh Vazirani) has won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hamming Medal. This award recognizes “exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology.” Sudan was cited “for fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.” …
December 8, 2021
2008 Distinguished CS Alumna Deborah Estrin (B.S. EECS ’80) has won the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) John von Neumann Medal. The award recognizes “outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology.” Estrin, whose research interests include technologies for caregiving, immersive health, small data, participatory sensing and public interest technology, was cited for “her leadership in mobile…
November 23, 2021
EECS Prof. Emeritus and alumnus Pravin Varaiya (Ph.D. 1966, advisor: Lotfi Zadeh), who is currently a Professor in the Graduate School, has won the 2022 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal. This major IEEE Corporate Award recognizes “exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.” Varaiya, who is known for his contributions…