July 6, 2021
EECS Ph.D. students Kevin Cheang and Federico Mora (advisor: Sanjit A. Seshia) have been awarded a 2021 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QiF) for their proposed project on “Practical Lifting for Verification of Trusted Platform Software.” They are one of the sixteen winners of this year’s QiF North America competition, which recognizes…
May 26, 2021
A team at the Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group (NLP) helped augment an AI system named “Dr. Fill” that has won the 2021 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). This is the first time in the contest’s history that an AI has trumped its human competitors. The team, which included CS…
May 21, 2021
After intensive debate spanning 2020 and 2021, and careful analysis of a trial cycle of GRE-free admissions for Fall 2021, the EECS Department has voted to drop the GRE requirement for graduate admissions indefinitely. Effective immediately, and beginning with the Fall 2022 cohort, whose application window opens in September 2021,…
May 19, 2021
EE graduate student Charles Dove (advisor: Laura Waller) has been named a 2021 Fellow by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing groundbreaking applied science with real-world benefits for all humanity. Dove utilizes principles from machine learning and differentiable programming to create new methods for…
May 14, 2021
A paper co-authored by Berkeley EECS Prof. Jeffrey Bokor, his postdoc Yuxuan Lin, Berkeley Physics Prof. Alex Zettl, his postdoc Cong Su, and researchers at MIT, among others, describes a more efficient method of connecting atomically thin 2-D materials to other chip elements, making them a more promising alternative to…
May 12, 2021
EECS alumna and current Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe (B.S. ’20) is the subject of an article in the Spring 2021 Berkeley Engineer titled “Cultivating female coders in Africa.” During the COVID pandemic shutdown, Tumushabe developed a program called Afro Fem Coders to allow her to remotely teach computer programming to…
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…