March 18, 2024
EE Professor Boubacar Kante has won the 2024 Bakar Prize. The prize is given annually to former Bakar Fellows and provides additional resources to ensure a successful transition of their technology from academic research to industry applications. Now in its 12th year, the Bakar Fellows Programs has supported 74 Faculty…
March 11, 2024
The New York Times profiles Covariant, an Emeryville-based AI and robotics company founded by CS Professor Pieter Abbeel and his former students, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang.
March 5, 2024
CS Assistant Professor Natacha Crooks has won the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering Rising Star Award. Crooks was cited “for contributions to distributed data management, and its applications to blockchain technology, security, and cloud computing.” The award will be presented at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering,…
March 4, 2024
CS Assistant Professor Nika Haghtalab is among three UC Berkeley faculty members named to Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Haghtalab, along with Statistics and CS Assistant Professor Jacob Steinhardt and incoming Statistics Assistant Professor Amanda Coston are among this year’s 19-person group. Each will receive up to $300,000 over…
February 21, 2024
Nika Haghtalab, Preeya Khanna, and Sophia Shao are among the nine young faculty at UC Berkeley named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows. Of the 306 Sloan Research Fellowships awarded to UC Berkeley faculty since 1955, 45 are EECS professors. The Sloan Research Fellowship is “awarded annually to early-career researchers whose creativity,…
February 9, 2024
Quanta Magazine profiled Lenore Blum, a professor-in-residence at Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. “I had never wanted to think of myself as a woman mathematician, but I started realizing I had a role to play.”
February 7, 2024
EECS Professor Ion Stoica has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Stoica was honored “for networked systems for large-scale data processing, analytics, and machine learning.” He joins 114 newly elected members, as well as 21 international members to be inducted into the NAE, which is among…
February 5, 2024
EE alumna Amy Wendt (M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88) has won the 2024 EDGE in Tech Athena Award for Academic Leadership. The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) confers four categories of awards to exceptional pioneers in diversity, equity, and…
February 2, 2024
The Computing Research Association (CRA) Undergraduate Research Awards “recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.” Each year, four students are selected for their contributions to multiple research projects, co-authoring papers, or presenting their work at large-scale conferences.
February 1, 2024
EECS alumnus Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS), co-founder of Augmental, an assistive technologies company, has developed MouthPad^ the world’s first hands-free touchpad. MouthPad^ debuted at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show. (Photo Courtesy of Augmental)