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 6, 2024
EECS Professor Robert Brodersen, co-founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), passed away on February 1st, 2024. He was 78. Professor Brodersen was born in Brush, Colorado. He attended California Polytechnic State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and mathematics in 1966. He…
February 5, 2024
Ion Stoica, Berkeley CS Professor, and co-founder and executive chairman of Databricks, was interviewed and quoted on the growth of generative AI startups, and their growth beyond the capabilities of current hardware.
February 5, 2024
EECS Professor Hany Farid is currently working on “monitoring AI usage in campaigning” for the 2024 Presidential elections.
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
Berkeley EECS students and faculty co-authored three of the four winning papers at this year’s ACM-SIAM Symposium of Discrete Algorithms (SODA). SODA’s focus is “research topics related to efficient algorithms and data structures for discrete problems.” Papers submitted by students and faculty are accepted based on their insights…