June 5, 2017
In an effort to gather scientists at the interface between neurosciences, optical engineering, and computer science, an all-day conference is being held on Friday, June 9, in Stanley Hall titled Sculpted Light in the Brain. Participants are united in their mission to develop technologies to enable real time…
May 25, 2017
Prof. David Culler has been appointed the Interim Dean for the newly created Division of Data Sciences. The purpose of the new division is to bring techniques to bear in statistics, mathematics, and computer science on new sources of data. One of their goals is the creation of an undergraduate…
May 24, 2017
According to an analysis by online recruiting company HiringSolved, UC Berkeley has the most undergraduate and graduate alumni hired by the 25 biggest Silicon Valley employers in 2017. Using data from more than 10,000 public profiles for tech workers hired or promoted into new positions in 2016 and the…
May 22, 2017
2017 EE Distinguished Alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. 90/Ph.D. 94) and EECS alumna Gitanjali Swamy (Ph.D. ’97) are both participating in a TiE-Boston and IIT AGNE panel discussion on the “unique strengths of and challenges for female innovators and the ecosystem that supports them.” Anantha is the Vannevar Bush Professor…
May 22, 2017
Computer vision pioneer Prof. Avideh Zakhor is the subject of a Mercury News profile titled “Avideh Zakhor: the brains behind Google Earth and Street View,” which touches on her emigration from Iran, the creation of the 3-D city modeling technology for a Defense Department-funded start-up which she ultimately sold…
May 9, 2017
Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller has been awarded the 2017 Keysight Early Career Professor Award. The Keysight Early Career Professor Award is established to recognize and encourage excellent research enabling design, test or measurement of electronic systems. The program seeks to establish strong collaborative relationships between Keysight researchers and leading professors…
May 9, 2017
EECS major Sam Kumar is a runner up for the 2017 University Medal. Candidates for the University Medal must have overcome significant challenges, made a difference in the lives of others and carry a GPA of 3.96 or higher. Sam is involved in research related to software-defined buildings, has spent…
May 8, 2017
Professors Jan Rabaey and Pieter Abbeel were named in the top 5 of the 2017 top 50 pioneers by the “De Tijd” (translation buttons provided above the article), the Belgian equivalent of the Financial Times. Prof. Rabaey is currently the scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research…
May 2, 2017
Alumnus Sanjay Mehrotra (EECS B.S. ’78/M.S. ’80) has been named Micron’s new President and CEO. Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and led the company through several strategic acquisitions (including SMART Storage Systems, Fusion-io, Schooner, and FlashSoft, that helped transform the company from a component supplier into a systems provider) until…
April 21, 2017
Computer pioneer Harry Huskey, who designed the G15–which might be called the first “personal computer”–at Berkeley in 1954, has died. He taught and conducted research into computer language in the EE department from 1954 to 1967, when he left to found and direct the computer center at U.C. Santa Cruz. …