March 16, 2022
CS graduate student Lucas Spangher (advisor: Costas Spanos) gathered musicians from all over the Bay Area to perform a benefit concert in support of Ukraine on March 13th. Opera and gospel singers, violists, pianists and harpists, were among the more than one dozen volunteers to participate in the Benefit Concert…
February 2, 2022
Students in the Data Science Discovery Program are filling a gap in engineering resources to help journalists more easily sort through large stores of records for their research. The Discovery Program, which is part of Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), connects around 200 undergraduates with hands-on,…
January 21, 2022
A number of EECS faculty and students are slated to participate in the 2022 Diversity in Tech Symposium, which will be held virtually on March 10 & 11. This year’s theme is “Advancing Climate Resilience.” EECS Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of Berkeley Engineering, will warm up the audience with…
December 7, 2021
EECS Prof. Murat Arcak and his graduate student He Yin have won the second Systems & Control Letters (SCL) Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award. Their paper, “Reachability analysis using dissipation inequalities for uncertain nonlinear systems,” published in SCL Volume 142, on August 2020, was deemed the best of 295 papers submitted…
November 19, 2021
EECS graduate student Rose A. Abramson (advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski) has won the European Power Electronics and Drives Association (EPE) 2021 Young Author Best Paper Award. Her paper, “A High Performance 48-to-8 V Multi-Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converter for Data Center Applications,” co-authored by EECS alumnus Zichao Ye (Ph.D. ’20) and Prof. Robert…
October 20, 2021
The Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) is excited to announce an upcoming event in collaboration with Cal Performances. On October 28, “Place and Displacement: Bias in Our Algorithms and Society” will feature Cal Artist-in-Residence Angélique Kidjo in conversation with CDSS Associate Provost Jennifer Chayes, EECS Assistant Professor…
October 14, 2021
EECS graduate student Zichao Ye (advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski) is among five winners selected by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) to showcase their Ph.D. projects to the global power electronics community. Ye’s thesis, titled “Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Power Converters: Fundamental Limits and Design Techniques,” focuses on a topological effort to drastically improve the…
October 12, 2021
The 2019-20 EECS Teaching Awards recognize three members of our faculty whose extraordinary performances kept students focused and engaged during a particularly difficult year. The CS Diane McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Anca Dragan in the spirit of McEntyre who was know for her “dedication to…
October 10, 2021
EECS Ph.D. student Matthew Anderson (advisors: Jan Rabaey and Ali Niknejad) has won the …
September 24, 2021
Graduate students Sagnik Bhattacharya (B.A. CS and Statistics ’21) and Jay Shenoy (B.A. CS ’21) are recipients of the 2022 Siebel Scholars award. The Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes “exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.” Bhattacharya, a 5th Year Masters student and…