March 2, 2017
EE Profs. Ruzena Bajcsy and Stuart Russell appear in an article in the Berkeley Science Review titled “Automating Us,” in which they are quoted discussing the impacts of recent technological developments on both robots and humans.
March 1, 2017
2016-17 Bakar Fellow Prof. Ali Javey is profiled in a Berkeley Research article titled “Physiological Changes Tracked Moment to Moment,” in which he discusses his research into a network of sensors that can be embedded into a sweatband to monitor moment-by-moment changes in electrolytes and metabolites. Prof. Javey…
February 24, 2017
Prof. Avideh Zakhor is featured in a video interview by bigthink.com titled “Smart Tech: Phones, Drones and Interior Mapping”. Prof. Zakhor’s research interests include digital signal processing and its applications to 2D and 3D image and video processing, and communications. Applications of her research range from helping emergency…
February 21, 2017
Dr. Gary May has been selected to become the 7th Chancellor of UC Davis. Dr. May is an alumnus of EECS (M.S. ’88 and Ph.D. ’92) and was one of the founding members of the Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students (BGESS) group. In 2010, he was named Outstanding Electrical…
February 8, 2017
Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Prof. Katherine Yelick have been elected to the National Academy of Engineers (NAE). Election to membership in the NAE is among the highest forms of recognition of notable accomplishments in engineering. Prof. King Liu was recognized for “contributions to the fin field effect transistor (FinFET)…
February 8, 2017
Prof. Michel Maharbiz, Prof. Yun Song, Associate Prof. Laura Waller, Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller, and Assistant Prof. Nir Yosef are among the thirteen UC Berkeley faculty chosen to receive up to $1.5 million each over the next five years by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. The investigator awards are the…
February 6, 2017
On February 14th, Prof. Kameshwar Poollawill lead a Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) webinar titled “The Sharing Economy for the Smart Grid.” Funded by the DOE, this free, public webinar will explore sharing economy opportunities in the electricity sector. The presentation will also discuss control technology platforms…
February 6, 2017
Professor in Residence Trevor Darrell has been hired as Chief Scientist at Nexar, the world’s first over-the-top vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) network that turns smartphones into Artificial Intelligence Dashcams. In parallel to his work in EECS, Darrell will lead research in the area of machine vision deep learning…
February 6, 2017
Associate Prof. Pieter Abbeel and the Robot Learning Lab are profiled in a comprehensive article for Datamation titled “Artificial Intelligence: When Will the Robots Rebel?” The article covers the foundational tools of AI, like machine learning, and delves into subjects like the human desire to replicate itself,…
February 3, 2017
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy, Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan, Prof. Ken Goldberg, and Dean Shankar Sastry are members of a Berkeley team participating in a new $253 million national consortium, the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Innovation Hub, led by the Department of Defense. The ARM consortium, which has…