September 13, 2017
EECS Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy has won the 2017 John Scott Award which has been presented by the City of Philadelphia since 1822 to “the most deserving men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the comfort, welfare and happiness of mankind.” Bajcsy’s award is for her…
September 12, 2017
Once again, the EECS Department is one of the top ranked in the nation. Our Computer Science undergraduate program ranked 2nd (after MIT), up from 4th place in 2017, and our Electrical/Electronic/Communications undergraduate program came in at #3 (after MIT and Stanford), holding steady from last year.
September 12, 2017
CS Assistant Teaching Professor John DeNero is the inaugural recipient of the Charles and Dianne Giancarlo Teaching Fellowship. This fellowship supports excellence in undergraduate teaching in EECS and was made possible by a generous donation from alumnus Charles Giancarlo (EE M.S. ’80) and his wife, Dianne (co-founder of the Women’s…
September 11, 2017
CS Prof. Scott Shenker has won a 2017 Visionary Award from the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. The award was created to acknowledge entrepreneurs and “celebrate people with the imagination and persistence to innovate in the City of Berkeley.“ Shenker co-founded Nicira, a company focused on software-defined networking (SDN) and network…
September 10, 2017
CS/IEOR Prof. Ken Goldberg, director of the AUTOLAB, and his EE graduate student Jeff Mahler, are profiled in a New York Times article titled “In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own,” about researchers who are using neural networks and machine learning to teach robots to…
September 9, 2017
EECS sophomore Alex Montanez is part of the inaugural class of Hallac Scholars. The program, sponsored by the global asset management firm BlackRock, combines scholarship, mentorship and internship to help students learn how engineers can use their skills to develop innovative tech for delivering financial services. Although…
September 9, 2017
EECS senior Armen Chouldjian was one of 11 engineering interns, selected from more than 200 college applicants around the nation, to work in the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Maintenance and Engineering Department. His summer project was to take information-dense reports generated from various BART computer systems and make them…
September 9, 2017
CS Profs. Pieter Abbeel and Michael Jordan, two of the best-known experts in machine learning, have been appointed as joint faculty in the department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) in addition to their primary appointments in EECS (and Statistics for Jordan). “Profs. Abbeel and Jordan are terrific colleagues that…
September 8, 2017
For the second year in a row, U.C. Berkeley has ranked No. 2 among the 50 undergraduate programs that produce the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs, according to PitchBook’s 2017-18 report. The report distinguishes undergraduate and MBA programs, compares Ivy League colleges to other universities and analyzes numbers such as companies…
September 7, 2017
Prof. David Wagner, who co-teaches CS C8: The Foundations of Data Science, and Prof. David Culler, interim dean of the new Division of Data Sciences, are featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article titled “Universities rush to add data science majors as demand explodes.” As worplace demand for data…