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…
October 8, 2019
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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…
August 1, 2019
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch is the co-author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that describes a groundbreaking discovery which has allowed researchers to raise the efficiency of thermophotovoltaics from 23% (where it has stayed for 15 years) to an unprecedented 29%. This ultralight alternative…