June 25, 2020
EECS Assoc. Prof. Boubacar Kanté, his graduate students Liyi Hsu, Jeongho Ha and Jun-Hee Park, postdoctoral researcher Abdoulaye Ndao, and Prof. Connie Chang-Hasnain, have demonstrated a revolutionary, ultrathin and compact, flat optical lens that spans wavelengths from the visible to the infrared with record-breaking efficiencies. Their paper, “Octave bandwidth photonic…
June 9, 2020
A paper co-written by EECS alumnus Peter Mattis (B.S. ’97) is being presented at the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) International Conference on Management of Data this month. The paper, titled “CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database,” describes a cloud-native, distributed SQL database…
May 21, 2020
The EECS department has eleven faculty members who rank among the top 100 most cited computer science & electronics scholars in the world. UC Berkeley ranked #4 in the global list of universities with the highest number of influential scholars in 2020 (35, up from 24 in 2018). Profs. Michael Jordan,…
May 20, 2020
CS graduate student Michael McCoyd (advisor: David Wagner) has co-authored an op-ed piece in the New York Times titled “What to Expect When a Coronavirus Vaccine Finally Arrives,” which offers sobering lessons from the history of the polio vaccine. It took over 60 years from the onset of the first…
May 18, 2020
Four papers co-authored by EECS faculty (3 of which were co-authored by Prof. Dawn Song) have won Test-of-Time awards at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy today: “Efficient Authentication and Signing of Multicast Streams Over Lossy Channels,” co-authored by Song (Ph.D. ’02) and the late Prof. Doug Tygar (with Perrig…
May 4, 2020
Freshly-graduate CS Ph.D. student Daniel J. Fremont (advisor: Sanjit Seshia) has won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award for his thesis on “Algorithmic Improvisation.” The award, which was established in 2013, recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations that significantly advance the state of…
April 16, 2020
EECS Prof. Pieter Abbeel and Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine are developing algorithms that enable robots to learn from past experiences — and even from other robots. They use deep reinforcement learning to bring robots past a crucial threshold in demonstrating human-like intelligence: the ability to independently solve problems and master…
April 16, 2020
EECS Prof. and alumna Dawn Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar) and Assistant Prof. Raluca Ada Popa are featured in the cover story for the Spring 2020 issue of the Berkeley Engineer titled “Reinventing Cybersecurity.” Faced with the challenge of protecting users’ personal data while recognizing that sharing access to…
April 10, 2020
EECS Prof. Pieter Abbeel and Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine both appear in a New York Times article titled “Computers Already Learn From Us. But Can They Teach Themselves?” which describes the work of scientists who “are exploring approaches that would help machines develop their own sort of common sense.” Abbeel,…
February 24, 2020
EE Associate Prof. Boubacar Kanté and his graduate student Junhee Park have been profiled in a Berkeley Engineering article titled “Researchers develop novel way to shrink light to detect ultra-tiny substances.” They are part of a team of researchers who have created light-based technology that can detect biological substances with…