December 12, 2017
Profs. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Eli Yablonovitch have been named 2017 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Fellowships are awarded to those who “have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic…
December 11, 2017
Incoming EECS faculty Yi Ma and Shafi Goldwasser have been named 2017 Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). “To be selected as a Fellow is to join our most renowned member grade and an elite group that represents less than 1 percent of ACM’s overall membership,” explains ACM President…
December 11, 2017
When Dan Garcia first attended UC Berkeley as a graduate student, he was amazed at the many different faces and key spaces that make up the world’s top…
December 6, 2017
United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Prof. Randy Katz (also alumnus, Ph.D. ’80) has been appointed Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley. Katz helped pioneer many technologies that are ubiquitous today, like wide-area wireless networks for mobile devices, cloud-based applications and cloud storage, and ways of managing and protecting computer networks. …
December 5, 2017
Prof. Sergey Levine and grad students Chelsea Finn and Frederik Ebert have developed a robotic learning technology called visual foresight that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before. “This can enable intelligent planning of highly…
December 4, 2017
Prof. Ron Fearing, grad student Justin Yim, and the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab are featured in a New Straits Times article titled “Designs from nature,” which explores the ways that lab scientists apply observations of animals in an attempt to mimic their motions over land, air and underwater to propel revolutionary…
December 1, 2017
EECS alumnus and civil rights leader Harlan Yu (B.S. ’04) is appealing to CS departments to show students how they can “pull on various levers of policy” to keep the public protected. Yu, who is now the Executive Director of a non-profit tech-policy consulting group called Upturn, is the focus…
December 1, 2017
Math and L&S CS major Sameera Vemulapalli has been named Runner-up for the 2018 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman. The Schafer Prize is awarded annually by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to the most outstanding woman mathematics undergraduate in the United…
November 29, 2017
EECS alumnus Keshab Parhi (Ph.D. ’88) has been named a 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow in recognition of his contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership and extraordinary achievements across disciplines. He is currently the Edgar F. Johnson Professor of Electronic Communication and a Distinguished…