March 23, 2022
A new type of high-resolution LiDAR chip developed by EECS Prof. Ming Wu could lead to a new generation of powerful, low-cost 3D sensors for autonomous cars, drones, robots, and smartphones. The paper, which appeared in the journal Nature, was co-authored by his former graduate students Xiaosheng Zhang (Ph.D. ’21)…
March 18, 2022
CS graduate student Chandan Singh (advisor: Bin Yu) has made it to the semi-finals of the 2022 Berkeley Grad Slam Competition, a UC showcase for graduate student research presented in three-minute talks for a general audience, likened to short Ted Talks. In “Unlocking Scientific Secrets by Distilling Neural Networks,” Singh…
March 8, 2022
EECS and Bioengineering Prof. Steven Conolly has been awarded the 2022 U.C. Berkeley Bakar Prize. This prize is given annually to former Bakar Program Fellows whose technological innovations promise to deliver solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Funds are provided to help new technologies transition from an…
March 6, 2022
EE alumnus Colin Parris (M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’94, advisor: Domenico Ferrari) has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). After a career at IBM Systems & Technology and General Electric (GE) Research, Parris is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at GE. He is known for…
February 28, 2022
EECS Prof. Katherine Yelick has won the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award. This award recognizes “a person or organization that has made an outstanding service contribution” with a major impact “to the computing research community” in the areas of government, professional societies, publications, conferences, or leadership. Yelick has been a…
February 16, 2022
CS Assistant Prof. Avishay Tal has been selected as a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science. This award recognizes outstanding early-career faculty for their “potential to revolutionize their fields of study.” Tal is a member of the Theory group; his interests include computational complexity, analysis of boolean…
February 15, 2022
Researchers from the Pilawa Research Group, including EECS alumnus Nathan Pallo (Ph.D. ’21), EECS Associate Prof. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, and former postdoc Tomas Modeer, have won one of four 1st place 2020 IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Transactions Prize Paper Awards. Their paper, which was co-authored by Pilawa-Podgurski’s UIUC graduate students, Tom Foulkes…
February 2, 2022
Students in the Data Science Discovery Program are filling a gap in engineering resources to help journalists more easily sort through large stores of records for their research. The Discovery Program, which is part of Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), connects around 200 undergraduates with hands-on,…
February 2, 2022
EECS Associate Prof. Aditya Parameswaran has been selected to receive the Young Alumni Achievers Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. This award “recognizes and celebrates the outstanding achievements of [IIT’s] young alumni in their chosen field of endeavor.” Parameswaran, who has a joint appointment at the I…
February 1, 2022
EECS Associate Prof. Sergey Levine, Assistant Prof. Nilah Ioannidis, and alumna Dorsa Sadigh have won 2022 Okawa Research Grants. These grants recognize “studies and analyses in the fields of information and telecommunications.” Levine is doing research on “Offline Reinforcement Learning: Robust and Reliable Decisions from Data,” Ioannidis is working on “Genome-Scale…