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…
February 23, 2020
Computer Science and Global Studies double major, Jake Tibbetts, has published an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists titled “Keeping classified information secret in a world of quantum computing.” Tibbetts, who is a research assistant at the LBNL Center for Global Security Research and a member of the…
February 19, 2020
The work of Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin and grad student Ava Tan is featured in an article in the IEEE Spectrum titled “New Nonvolatile Memories Shrink Circuits That Search Fast.” Salahuddin, a ferroelectric device pioneer, has been conducting work on a new kind of content-addressable memory cell that could speed searches and enable…
November 12, 2019
Two papers co-authored by Berkeley EECS authors won ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Awards at the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2019. “Duet: An Expressive Higher-Order Language and Linear Type System for Statically Enforcing Differential Privacy” co-authored by Prof. Dawn Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar), graduate…
October 23, 2019
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
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…