May 11, 2021
Senior undergraduate and future graduate EECS student Leyla Kabuli has won the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor. She is the daughter of EECS alumna A. Nazli Gündes (Ph.D. ’88, advisor: Charles Desoer), now an ECE professor at UC Davis. Kabuli, who will graduate with a 4.0 GPA, attended Berkeley…
May 7, 2021
Third-year EECS graduate student Jiaheng Zhang (advisor: Dawn Song) has won a 2021 Facebook Fellowship for Security & Privacy. He is the only student from Berkeley this year to win one of these coveted fellowships, which are designed to support emerging scholars who are engaged in innovative research. Zhang’s focus…
April 27, 2021
The Berkeley Blue team, which includes EECS undergraduates Ethan Guo and James Shi, and CS/Math undergraduate Justin Yokota, has won a silver medal at the 2020 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) North America West Division Championship. If the team does well in the North American Division (NADC) Championship this…
April 23, 2021
EECS alumna and Assistant Teaching Prof. Gireeja Ranade (M.S. ’09/Ph.D. ’14, advisor: Anant Sahai), and Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) Ritika Shrivastava, Jay Monga, Maxson Yang, Suraj Rampure and Allen Shen have won UC Berkeley Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times awards. They are among 59 people from of pool of over…
April 6, 2021
EECS graduate student Wenshuo Guo (advisor: Michael I. Jordan) has won a 2021 Google PhD Fellowship in Algorithms, Optimization and Markets. This award acknowledges and supports exemplary PhD students in computer science and related fields who are making contributions to their areas of specialty. Guo studies robustness guarantees in algorithms…
March 31, 2021
CS alumnae Maryann Simmons (B.A. / M.S./ Ph.D. ’01, advisor: Carlo Séquin) and Hayley Iben (M.S. ’05/Ph.D. ’07, advisor: James O’Brien) have won 2020 Technical Achievement Awards (SciTech Oscars) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for hair simulation systems. Simmons is now a senior staff software engineer and…
March 8, 2021
In an effort to facilitate the conversation about diversity and inclusion in the field of EECS, undergraduate students Neha Hudait and Prachi Deo have put together a web page and calendar of events for March 2021 and beyond. The web page will feature a series of profiles, the…
March 8, 2021
We are thrilled to spotlight Xinyun Chen, an EECS PhD student under Professor Dawn Song. We had the opportunity to interview her about her research and advice for undergraduate students. Here’s what she had to say! Tell us about your research? My research lies at the intersection of deep…
February 3, 2021
EECS 5th Year Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe is the subject of a Berkeley News article titled “COVID Stories: The chance to teach young Ugandan women to code.” A MasterCard Foundation Scholar from Uganda, Tumushabe had always wanted to teach. When the Coronavirus pandemic hit in early 2020, she…
January 28, 2021
Liaowang (Zoey) Zou, an EECS Master of Engineering (MEng) candidate with a concentration in Data Science and Systems, is the subject of a Coleman Fung Institute interview. Zou, who grew up in China, describes how she became interested in STEM as a child, what drove her to EECS, her experience…