November 17, 2017
A new book, Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees, by EE alumnus C. L. Hoang (M.S. ’82), is set to be released by Willow Stream Publishing tomorrow. Hoang was born and raised in Vietnam during the war and came to the US in the 1970s. He wrote this travelogue about his…
November 3, 2017
A UC Berkeley/UC Riverside research group that includes Prof. Jeffrey Bokor, Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin, postdoc Charles-Henri Lambert, postdoctoral fellow Jon Gorchon, and EE graduate student Akshay Pattabi have developed a new, ultrafast method for electrically controlling magnetism in certain metals, a breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance…
November 2, 2017
A paper co-authored by postdoc Pramod Subramanyan, grad student Rohit Sinha, alumnus Ilia Lebedev (B.S. ’10), alumnus and MIT Prof. Srinivas Devadas (M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’88), and EECS Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia has won Best Paper Award at the 2017 ACM Conference…
October 30, 2017
Three papers with Berkeley authors received the Helmholtz Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017 in Venice, Italy. This award honors papers that have stood the test of time (more than ten years after first publication) and is bestowed by the IEEE technical committee on Pattern Analysis…
October 18, 2017
EE Associate Prof. Chunlei Liu has co-authored a study which has identified a specific molecular pathway that links maternal fever early in pregnancy to some congenital heart and cranial facial birth defects. The findings, which were published in the journal Science Signaling, suggest a portion of congenital birth defects…
October 17, 2017
Computer Science faculty in the Real-Time Intelligent Secure Execution Lab (RISELab) have outlined challenges in systems, security and architecture that may impede the progress of Artificial Intelligence, and propose new research directions to address them. The paper, A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI, was authored by…
September 5, 2017
EE Prof. Edward A. Lee has published his first book for a general audience, Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology (MIT Press, 2017). In it, Lee observes that engineering is a deeply intellectual and fundamentally inventive process and that the producers of digital technology…
July 18, 2017
CS graduate student Aviad Rubinstein (advisor: Christos Papadimitriou) is featured in a Quanta Magazine article titled “In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium,” which describes the results of his paper on game theory proving that no method of adapting strategies in response to previous games will converge efficiently…
July 6, 2017
The paper titled “ESPIRiT—an eigenvalue approach to autocalibrating parallel MRI: Where SENSE meets GRAPPA” co-written by Associate Prof. Michael Lustig, his graduate student Pat Virtue, and alumnus Mark J. Murphy (Ph.D. ’11 advisor: Kurt Keutzer) has been named the most-cited Magnetic Resonance in Medicine article from 2014. The…
April 27, 2017
U.C. Berkeley has the top ten most AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award winners across all fields of computer science in 2016 and the top five most award winners in the fields of Computer Vision, Database, Machine Learning, Multimedia, Security, Computer Networking, and System. The 28 CS faculty members included…