September 23, 2024
Three CS grad students have been named Siebel Scholars for the class of 2025, each receiving a $35,000 grant for their research. Cade Gordon, Jessica Lin, and Oliver Yu were recognized for their academic excellence and leadership. Their work spans areas such as protein…
September 11, 2024
A paper by Adelson Chua, Aviral Pandey, Ryan Kaveh, Sina Faraji Alamouti, and Justin Doong, led by EECS Associate Professor Rikky Muller, has won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits. The VLSI Symposium is a global conference dedicated to semiconductor…
July 15, 2024
EECS and Mathematics Professor Venkatesan Guruswami, EECS graduate students Xuandi Ren and Kewen Wu, Nanjing University Professor Bingkai Lin, and Peking University graduate student Yican Sun have won a Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Best Paper Award. Their paper, “Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis under Exponential Time Hypothesis” was presented at the…
July 3, 2024
June 21, 2024
EECS graduate student Justin Kang has won the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. Kang and co-author Professor Wei Yu from the University of Toronto were selected for their work on “Minimum Feedback for Collision-Free Scheduling in Massive Random Access.” Granted annually, the award recognizes outstanding…
May 28, 2024
Berkeley EECS Ph.D. students Tess Despres, Ran (Thomas) Tian, and Chenfeng Xu have won Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships (QIF). Since 2009, the QIF has aimed “to enable students to pursue their futuristic innovative ideas.” Despres and co-author Alex Bellon from UCSD were selected for their work, “Crowd-Sourced and Private IoT Device…
May 20, 2024
“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…
April 18, 2024
EECS Ph.D. student Francisca Vasconcelos (advisors: Jordan and Vazirani) has been chosen as a Paul and Daisy Soros fellow. She will receive up to $90,000 to support her graduate education as part of the Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship, a merit-based program for immigrants and children of immigrants.
April 18, 2024
In a new preprint, researchers from Berkeley EECS, the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM), the Center for Computational Biology, led by IGI and C-GEM Investigator Jamie Cate, share deep learning models that bring us closer to using ribosomes as multi-purpose factories. EECS undergraduate…