August 2, 2018
Jun-Yan Zhu wins ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
CS alumnus Jun-Yan Zhu (Ph.D. ’17, advisor: Alexei Efros)…
publications
July 23, 2018
Lensless Cameras May Offer Detailed Imaging of Neural Circuitry
EECS graduate students Nick Antipa and Grace Kuo, along their advisor Associate Prof. Laura Waller, have penned an article for Photonics Media titled “Lensless Cameras May Offer Detailed Imaging of Neural Circuitry” about a new architecture which could enable simultaneous monitoring of millions of neurons in 3D space at…
May 31, 2018
PerfFuzz wins ISSTA18 Distinguished Paper Award
“PerfFuzz: Automatically Generating Pathological Inputs,” written by graduate students Caroline Lemieux and Rohan Padhye, and Profs. Koushik Sen and Dawn Song, will receive a Distinguished Paper Award from the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2018 in Amsterdam in July. PerfFuzz is a method to automatically…
May 16, 2018
Aviad Rubinstein wins 2017 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
CS alumnus Aviad Rubinstein (Ph.D. ‘ 17, advisor: Christos Papadimitriou) is the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP.” In his thesis, Rubinstein established the intractability of the approximate Nash equilibrium problem and several other…
May 1, 2018
Editing brain activity with holography
The research of Associate Prof. Laura Waller is highlighted in a Berkeley News article titled “Editing brain activity with holography.” Waller is co-author of a paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience that describes a holographic brain modulator which can activate up to 50 neurons at once in a three-dimensional…
April 26, 2018
A feasible way for devices to send data with light
Researchers, including Prof. Vladimir Stojanović, have developed a method to fabricate silicon chips that can communicate with light and are no more expensive than current chip technology. Stojanovic initially led the project into a new microchip technology capable of optically transferring data which could solve a severe bottleneck in current devices…
April 23, 2018
HäirIÖ: Human Hair as Interactive Material
CS Prof. Eric Paulos and his graduate students in the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, Sarah Sterman, Molly Nicholas, and Christine Dierk, have created a prototype of a wearable color- and shape-changing braid called HäirIÖ. The hair extension is built from a custom circuit, an Arduino Nano, an Adafruit Bluetooth board, shape memory alloy,…
April 10, 2018
Making computer animation more agile, acrobatic — and realistic
Graduate student Xue Bin “Jason” Peng (advisors Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine) has made a major advance in realistic computer animation using deep reinforcement learning to recreate natural motions, even for acrobatic feats like break dancing and martial arts. The simulated characters can also respond naturally to changes in the…
April 10, 2018
Atomically thin light emitting device opens the possibility for ‘invisible’ displays
Prof. Ali Javey, postdoc Der-Hsien Lien, and graduate students Matin Amani and Sujay Desai have built a bright-light emitting device that is millimeters wide and fully transparent when turned off. The light emitting material in this device is a monolayer semiconductor, which is just three atoms thick. It opens the…
April 9, 2018
A step forward in Stephen Derenzo’s search for dark matter
Prof. Stephen Derenzo is quoted in an article for Australia’s Particle about a new material for a proposed detector of weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). Derenzo is the lead author of a study published March 20 in the Journal of Applied Physics about a crystal called gallium…