April 14, 2017
A new certificate program, the Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation (BCDI), is the result of a cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental partnership between the College of Environmental Design, the College of Engineering, the Haas School of Business and the College of Letters and Science’s Arts and Humanities Division. It offers all undergraduates…
April 13, 2017
Prof. Ming Wu has been awarded the 2017 C.E.K. Mees Medal from the Optical Society of America (OSA). This medal is presented to a recipient who exemplifies the thought that “optics transcends all boundaries.” This award recognizes an original use of optics across different fields. Prof. Wu is being…
April 7, 2017
Josephine Williamson, the EECS Director of Administrative Services, has been selected to receive the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award (COSA), which is the highest honor bestowed upon staff by the Chancellor. COSAs are presented to individuals and teams who, in addition to performing their normal job duties with…
April 5, 2017
Alumnus Denis Shing Fai Yip (B.S. ’90/M.S. ’91) has been named Chief Executive Officer of Digital China Holdings Limited. He will focus on integrating big data and cloud computing technologies into the company’s global industrial system. Mr. Yip has been involved with information management, software, and global sales and services…
April 5, 2017
BiasBusters @ Cal EECS will make a presentation at this year’s Community Grants Showcase: Changing Social Norms on April 19, 2017. BiasBusters @ Cal EECS focuses on engaging EECS faculty, staff, and students to shift culture and increase the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in our community. The…
April 4, 2017
Charles Bordenave, an EECS/Statistics postdoc (Sept. 06-07) has been awarded thePrix Marc Yor by the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) of France. Charles Bordenave was an EECS/Statistics postdoc co-supervised by Prof. Venkatachalam Anantharam (EECS) and Prof. David Aldous (Statistics) and is currently with the French National…
March 29, 2017
Alumna Valerie Taylor (EE M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’91) has been appointed the next director of the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Taylor has received numerous awards for distinguished research and leadership and authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in…
March 24, 2017
EE Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, who participated in a semiconductor “Moore’s Law” panel discussion at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, is featured in an Electronic Design article titled “Forget Scaling. Moore’s Law Panel Talks Power Consumption.” Tsu-Jae, who helped pioneer the Finfet transistor in 1998, describes some…
March 20, 2017
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch has been awarded the IEEE William R. Cherry Award, which is the highest IEEE Award for solar cells. This award recognizes an individual engineer or scientist who has devoted a part of their professional life to the advancement of the science and technology of…
March 16, 2017
Prof. Jan Rabaey will be receiving two honorary doctorates. The first one is for scientific merit from the University of Antwerp in Belgium on March 30, 2017. The second one will follow on May 20 from the Tampere University of Technology. The title of Honorary Doctor is the highest…