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stamos

October 4, 2017

Alex Stamos hunts down Russian political ads on Facebook

EECS alumnus and security expert Alex Stamos (B.S. ’01) is profiled in an article in Recode about his role as Facebook’s Chief Security Officer.  He is currently leading their internal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and co-authored a paper explaining how Russia carried out its…

EE alumnus Mark Liu, Chair of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co

October 2, 2017

Mark Liu named Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC)

Alumnus Mark Liu (EE M.S. ’80/Ph.D. ’83) has been named Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest foundry chipmaker.  He is succeeding Morris Chang, who is retiring.  Chang, known as the “father of Taiwan’s chip industry,’ built TSMC (an Apple Inc. supplier) into a business worth $185…

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October 2, 2017

Jimmy Liu and Zuhayeer Musa build the future

CS majors Jimmy Liu and Zuhayeer Musa are featured in a Berkeley News article titled “In undergrad startup class, students learn to build the future.”  Liu and Musa co-founded a startup called Bash while still in high school.  When they came to Cal, they partnered with CS Prof. Scott…

Grad Student Chelsea Finn and BRETT the Robot

October 2, 2017

The education of Brett the robot

CS Prof. Pieter Abbeel, graduate student Chelsea Finn, and Brett the robot are featured in a Wired article titled “The Education of Brett the Robot” which delves into some of the nuts and bolts of machine learning.  Brett (short for Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks) is…

CS Professor Emeritus Lotfi Zadeh's farewell ceremony in Baku, Azerbaijan (photo: Azeri News)

September 29, 2017

President Aliyev attends farewell ceremony for Lotfi Zadeh

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended a farewell ceremony for Prof. Emeritus Lotfi Zadeh, held at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) in Baku.  The ceremony was attended by many prominent Azerbaijani state and government officials, scientists, and public figures.  Education Minister Mikayil Jabbarov said that his last wish was…

CS major Saloni Shah

September 29, 2017

Saloni Shah and Dan Garcia talk about challenges for women in CS

Senior CS major Saloni Shah and Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia are featured in a TechRepublic cover story titled “The state of women in computer science: An investigative report.”   They discuss some of the challenges of attracting and retaining women students in computer science, and some of the efforts that…

Neural Dust

September 29, 2017

Dust in the Machine

Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience Jose Carmena, and Prof. Michel Maharbiz, are the subjects of a California Magazine article titled “Dust in the Machine,” about brain-machine interface (BMI) research.  In 2013, Carmena, Maharbiz, then-graduate student Dongjin Seo (Ph.D. ’16), Prof. Jan Rabaey, and Prof. Elad Alon published a…

EECS alumnus Shahin Farshchi (Huffington Post)

September 28, 2017

Shahin Farshchi on making the ‘impossible’ possible through feats of engineering

EECS alumnus Shahin Farshchi (B.S. ’02) is the subject of one of a series of Iranian Americans’ Contributions Project (IACP) interviews that explore the personal and professional backgrounds of prominent Iranian-Americans who have made seminal contributions to their fields. Farshchi is currently a Partner at Lux Capital Management where he has…

CS alumnus Garth Gibson (photo: Matthew Plexman)

September 27, 2017

Garth Gibson named CEO of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

CS alumnus Garth Gibson  (M.S. ’84/B.S. ’91) has been named CEO of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto, Canada.  The newly-formed Vector has received $50-million funding from Ontario and $85-million-plus from more than 30 companies, including Shopify Inc., Magna International Inc., Canada’s big banks and U.S. tech giants…

bestcomputerscience

September 27, 2017

Berkeley EECS ranks 3rd in 2017 list of 50 Best Master’s in Computer Science

U.C. Berkeley is #3 in the Best Computer Science Schools rankings of the 50 Best Master’s in Computer Science Degrees for 2017. The rankings were based on a methodology which aggregates data from Payscale, U.S. News and World Report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as information from the…