January 2, 2018
CS Prof. Stuart Russell is featured in an interview by the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” titled “As much death as you want”: UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell on “Slaughterbots.” Russell discusses the genesis of the hit YouTube video, the technology that goes into lethal autonomous weapons, and some of…
December 20, 2017
Prof. Ben Recht has won the Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) 2017 Test of Time Award for a paper he co-wrote with Ali Rahimi in 2007 titled “Random Features for Large-Scale Kernel Machines.” Deep learning, which involves stacking many neural networks on top of one another to learn the…
December 19, 2017
All four EECS students nominated for this year’s Computing Research Association (CRA) Undergraduate Researcher Award were recognized by the selection committee. Senior CS/Math major Garrett Thomas (nominated by Pieter Abbeel) and EECS junior Peter Manohar (nominated by Alessandro Chiesa) were named as finalists. Senior CS major Siqi Liu (nominated by…
December 15, 2017
EECS alumna Ming C. Lin (B.S./M.S./Ph.D. ’86-’93) has been named Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland (UMD). Lin, a noted educator and expert in virtual reality, computer graphics and robotics, will assume the role of Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science with a…
December 15, 2017
EE Profs. Claire Tomlin and Kristofer Pister have won Outstanding Advising Faculty Awards from Berkeley Advising Matters. These awards are presented to administrators, directors, managers, faculty advisors or deans who are making a significant positive impact on the students and programs they support. The selection criteria includes “advising excellence and…
December 14, 2017
Daniel Grubb (EE140) and Ruocheng Wang (EE240A) have won an Analog Integrated Circuits I class design competition sponsored by Keysight technologies. The students designed low-power and high-speed LCD display drivers for a smartwatch display for the classes taught by Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller. Competition finalists gave presentations to a panel…
December 13, 2017
CS alumnus Harold Pimentel (Ph.D. ’16, advisor: Lior Pachter), now a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, has been chosen as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellow. The goal of the fellows program is to “recruit and retain individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups…
December 13, 2017
In response to the video Slaughterbots, created by Prof. Stuart Russell and Autonomousweapons.org, San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa has introduced a resolution to ban autonomous weapons. If the resolution is adopted, San Mateo County would be the first in the United States to urge Congress and the United Nations…
December 13, 2017
Prof. Murat Arcak, alumnus Samuel Coogan (M.S. ’12/Ph.D. ’15), and their co-authors on the paper titled “Traffic network control from temporal logic specifications,” have won the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award. The award is presented annually by the IEEE Control Systems Society to recognize…
December 13, 2017
EECS Center for Student Affairs (CSA) undergraduate advisers Cindy Conners, Charlene Duncan, Carol Marshall, Andrea Mejia Valencia, Nicole McIntyre, Lydia Raya, Michael-David Sasson, and Lily Zhang, have won the UC Berkeley Excellence in Advising 2017 Team Award. The team award recognizes exceptional performance and innovation in advising on campus and…