January 16, 2018
CS Associate Prof. Prasad Raghavendra has won the inaugural Michael and Sheila Held Prize. The award, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), honors outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research in the areas of combinatorial and discrete optimization, or related parts of computer science, such as the design and…
January 12, 2018
EECS Emerita Director of Diversity, Sheila Humphreys, is participating in a National Science Foundation (NSF) webinar titled “Tips that Work!: Advice from Award-Winning STEM Mentors” on Monday, Jan. 22 at 12:30 pm PST. Humphreys, who was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in 2012, will…
January 12, 2018
A new initiative, Graduates for Engaged and Extended Scholarship around Computing & Engineering (GEESE), aims to address growing concerns about the rapid advancement and integration of technologies in the global arena by building a coalition of engineers and social science scholars across campus to engage in issues vital to society…
January 10, 2018
EECS alumnus Bob Dahlberg (B.S., Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu) has been appointed AutoGrid’s new Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development. AutoGrid is a leader in flexibility management software. Dahlberg will spearhead efforts to build a multi-channel partner network and develop new business opportunities with partners in energy…
January 10, 2018
EECS alumnus Wei-Tek Tsai (M.S.’82/Ph.D. ’85) has been added to the Advisory Board of ThreeD Capital, a Canadian–based venture capital firm focused on investments in “promising, early stage companies with disruptive capabilities.” Tsai served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University…
January 10, 2018
Alumnus Neil Warren (B.S. ’07), a member of both Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, has been elevated to Principal Attorney at Fish & Richardson, a top patent litigation firm. Warren received his J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in ’10 and focuses his practice on both…
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…