February 16, 2018
Assistant Profs. Anca Dragan and Raluca Ada Popa have been awarded 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. They are among 126 early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada.
February 14, 2018
Prof. Alexandre Bayen and PhD student Pulkit Agrawal developed a computer vision-based system to help memory care centers monitor patient falls and to reduce them where possible. State regulations require an MRI of the head any time a patient suffers an unwitnessed fall, and about a fourth of all Alzheimer’s-related…
February 12, 2018
UC Berkeley’s Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Mu Chapter has won the 2016-17 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Chapter Award. The Berkeley Mu Chapter of HKN, the the national Electrical and Computer Engineering honor society, is among the most active engineering societies on campus and provides many services to the undergraduate student community including…
February 8, 2018
Prof. Edward Lee is a 2018 recipient of the Berkeley Citation, which was awarded at the 2018 Berkeley Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). The Berkeley Citation is awarded to distinguished individuals whose contributions to UC Berkeley go beyond the call of duty and whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence in their fields. …
February 7, 2018
Prof. Constance Chang-Hasnain and Adjunct Prof. David Tse have been elected members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where…
February 7, 2018
Alumnus Jiawang Nie (Ph.D. ’06, co-advisors: James Demmel and Bernd Sturmfels) has won the 2018 Best Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Linear Algebra (SIAG/LA). His paper, Generating Polynomials and Symmetric Tensor Decompositions, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, was deemd the most…
February 2, 2018
Associate Prof. Laura Waller has won the 2018 Early Career Achievement Award–Academic focus–from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). The award, which is paired with an industry-focused award, is presented annually in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions in the engineering or scientific fields of relevance to…
February 2, 2018
Prof. Avideh Zakhor has been named 2018 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. She was cited “for her significant contributions to signal processing, including 3D image processing & computer vision, 3D reality capture systems, 3D modeling, mapping and positioning, image and video compression and communication.” …
February 2, 2018
Prof. Alexandre Bayen, director of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies, is working on smarter traffic apps that will talk to one another to prevent clogged freeways and city streets. When Bayen spoke at the Cal Future Forum in 2017, he described how UC Berkeley transportation researchers are developing the…
January 29, 2018
EE alumnus Mostafa “Mos” Kaveh (M.S. ’70) has been named interim dean of the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Minnesota. CSE, the University’s second largest college, spans 12 departments and is ranked among the top engineering and science academic programs in the country. Kaveh joined…