May 30, 2019
EECS PhD student Justin Yim (with advisor EECS Prof. Ron Fearing and ME undergraduate co-author Eric Wang) has won the best student paper award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (May 20-24, Montreal) for his paper “Drift-free Roll and Pitch Estimation for High-acceleration Hopping.” The…
May 29, 2019
A paper co-authored by freshly minted alumnus Tianshi Wang (Ph.D. ’19, winner of the 2019 EECS David Sakrison Memorial Prize for “truly outstanding research”) and Prof. Jaijeet Roychowdhury has won Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) 2019. The paper, titled “OIM: Oscillator-based…
May 21, 2019
Salto the robot, first unveiled in 2016 by the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, is now equipped with a slew of new skills, giving it the ability to bounce in place like a pogo stick and jump through obstacle courses like an agility dog. Salto can even take short jaunts around campus,…
May 15, 2019
Recent graduate Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18, advisors: Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine), has won the prestigious ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is presented annually to “the author(s) of the best doctoral dissertation(s) in computer science and engineering.” In her dissertation, “Learning to Learn with Gradients,” Finn introduced algorithms for meta-learning…
May 2, 2019
Graduate student Soham Phade and his advisor, Venkat Anantharam, have won the Best Paper Award at the 9th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2019). Their paper, titled “Optimal Resource Allocation over Networks via Lottery-Based Mechanisms,” was in the Games for Economy and Resource Allocation category. Phade’s…
April 15, 2019
Two papers by EECS faculty have been named 2018 IEEE Micro Top Picks by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH). The papers were “A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection,” co-authored by Profs. Krste Asanović and John Kubiatowicz (along with Martin Maas), and…
March 8, 2019
A research paper by EECS Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin’s group that shows direct measurement of Negative Capacitance was highlighted in an article in Nature Electronics titled “Negative capacitance found.” Negative Capacitance is a new state of ferroelectric material that was discovered by Salahuddin in 2008 and promises to significantly improve energy efficiency…
March 8, 2019
CS Teaching Prof. and alumnus Dan Garcia (M.S. ’95/Ph.D. ’00) has authored more submissions in the 50 year history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) than anyone else. Garcia authored 61 SIGCSE submissions accepted between 2003 and 2016 (submissions were counted…
March 7, 2019
9 papers co-authored by 6 EECS faculty, 13 students, 3 post docs, and 3 alumni have made it into the Top 10 research papers ranked by TOPBOTS in four categories of AI Research. TOPBOTS is the largest publication, community, and educational resource for business leaders applying AI to their enterprises. …
February 26, 2019
“Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,” 6th ed. by Prof. Emeritus David Patterson and John Hennessy has won a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (“Texty”) from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA). Textys recognize excellence in current textbooks and learning materials. Works are judged by other textbook authors and subject matter…