October 23, 2019

“Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis” wins 2020 ICSE Most Influential Paper Award

The paper “Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis,” co-authored by alumnus Susmit Jha (M.S./Ph.D. ’11), Sumit Gulwani (Ph.D. ’05, advisor: George Necula), EECS Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia, and Ashish Tiwari–and part of Susmit Jha’s Ph.D. dissertation advised by Sanjit Seshia–will receive the 2020 Most Influential Paper Award by the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). ICSE is…

October 23, 2019

Using deep learning to expertly detect hemorrhages in brain scans

A computer algorithm co-developed by Vision Group alumnus Weicheng Kuo (Ph.D. ’19), post doc Christian Hӓne, their advisor Prof. Jitendra Malik, and researchers at UCSF, bested two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans, an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients…

October 8, 2019

How to Stop Superhuman A.I. Before It Stops Us

EECS Prof. Stuart Russell has penned a New York Times Op-Ed titled “How to Stop Superhuman A.I. Before It Stops Us,” in which he explains why we need to design artificial intelligence that is beneficial, not just smart.  “Instead of building machines that exist to achieve their objectives,” he…

September 13, 2019

Sergey Levine, Francis Bach, and Pieter Abbeel are top 3 most prolific NeurIPS 2019 authors

Two EECS faculty and one alumnus are the authors with the most number of papers accepted to the upcoming 2019 Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), one of the most popular and influential AI conferences in the world.  CS Prof. Sergey Levine took the top spot with 12…

August 29, 2019

New chip could lead to cheaper and better medical imaging devices and self-driving cars

Berkeley researchers, including EECS Prof. Ming Wu and his former postdoc Youming Wang,  have created the fastest silicon-based, programmable two-dimensional optical phased array, built on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).  They achieved a resonance frequency of 55 kilohertz that corresponded to a response time of 5.7 microseconds, almost 1,000 times faster than…

August 22, 2019

EECS students, postdocs, alumni and faculty make strong showing at 2019 USENIX Security Symposium

EECS students, postdocs, alumni, and faculty were front and center at the 28th USENIX Security Symposium in Santa Clara last week.  In addition to the Test of Time and Distinguished Paper Awards (see below), Keynote Speaker Alex Stamos (B.S. ’01), previously the Chief Security Officer of Facebook, highlighted the threat model work of current…

August 22, 2019

Grant Ho, Vern Paxson, and David Wagner win USENIX Security Symposium Distinguished Paper Award

Graduate student Grant Ho and his co-advisors Profs. Vern Paxson and David Wagner, were honored with a Distinguished Paper Award at the 2019 USENIX Security Symposium for “Detecting and Characterizing Lateral Phishing at Scale”.  In the paper, they presented “the first large-scale characterization of lateral phishing attacks, based on a dataset of…

August 22, 2019

David Wagner, Eric Brewer, Ian Goldberg, and Randi Thomas win 2019 USENIX Test of Time Award

CS Profs. and alumni David Wagner (Ph.D. ’00) and Eric Brewer (B.S. ’89), and alumni Ian Goldberg (Ph.D. ’00) and Randi Thomas (M.S.) have won the 2019 USENIX Test of Time Award for their 1996 paper titled “A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications.”  The paper, which introduced a fundamental…

August 5, 2019

GauGAN AI art tool wins two major awards at SIGGRAPH 2019 Real-Time Live Competition

A viral real-time AI art application, co-created by three current and former graduate students of CS Prof. Alexei Efros, has won two coveted awards–Best in Show and Audience Choice–at the SIGGRAPH 2019 Real-Time Live Competition.  The interactive application, called GauGAN, was co-created by Ph.D. candidate Taesung Park during a summer…

August 3, 2019

You can’t squash this roach-inspired robot

Research co-authored by grad student Justin Yim and EE Profs. Ron Fearing and Robert Full, among others, has resulted in the creation of a small cockroach-inspired robot so hardy that it can survive being crushed underfoot.  The robot, which is about the size of a large postage stamp, is made…