September 20, 2017
CS Ph.D. student Pulkit Agrawal (advisers: Jitendra Malik and Jack Gallant) is the subject of a Quant Magazine article titled “Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious.” Agrawal is working at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab with CS grad student Deepak Pathak, Pathak’s adviser Prof. Trevor Darrell, and CS…
September 20, 2017
Research co-authored by EE Prof. Ali Javey has demonstrated that the power of photosynthesis can be harnessed to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. The achievement marks a significant milestone in the effort to move toward sustainable sources of fuel. The study, titled…
September 18, 2017
CS Prof. Katherine Yelick is the subject of an interview in HPCwire in which she discusses the promise and progress of exascale science. The article follows on the heels of Yelick’s keynote address on “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale” at the ACM Europe Conference in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this month. …
September 14, 2017
EE Prof. Jan Rabaey has won the 2017 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Aristotle Award. The award recognizes SRC-supported faculty whose deep commitment to the educational experience of SRC students has had a profound and continuing impact on their professional performance and, consequently, a significant impact for members over a long period…
September 14, 2017
EE graduate student Ava Tan (advisor: Sayeef Salahuddin) has won Best in Session (Processing) for her paper “Characterization of the Interface States of Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide” at TECHCON 2017. Judging criteria is based on the novelty/quality of research work, relevance of the work to the semiconductor industry, and the…
September 13, 2017
EECS undergraduates Raghav Anand (EECS 2020) and Rohan Sinha (ME & EECS 2019) were part of a team that placed among the finalists awarded the top three prizes in the NASA Aeronautics Design Challenge 2016-1017. They received an Honorable Mention in the supersonic division for their design, named Goldeneye AB1, which…
September 13, 2017
CS alumnus Joey Davis (B.A. ’03) has been hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Davis investigates how cells maintain a delicate internal balance of assembling and dismantling their own machinery, particularly macromolecules. He is also developing a series of…
September 13, 2017
The Edward A. Lee Festschrift Symposium will be held on October 13th at the Berkeley City Club to celebrate the scholarship and teaching of Edward A. Lee, the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor in EECS. The theme of the symposium is “Principles of Modeling” and is dedicated to Lee’s devotion to research that centers…
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.