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…
November 29, 2017
EECS Master’s student Allen Tang (also alumnus, B.A. CS/Statistics/ORMS) and his Berkeley teammates have won the Data Open Championship at the New York Stock Exchange. The winners receive a $100,000 cash prize and possible job interviews with Citadel, a Chicago-based hedge fund firm. The competition was comprised of 20 one-day…
November 27, 2017
Prof. Ana Claudia Arias, Prof. Miki Lustig, and graduate student Joseph Corea, are featured in a STAT article titled “Electronics ‘like a second skin’ make wearables more practical and MRIs safer for kids.” The team is using printers loaded with a variety of high-tech inks (liquid silver nanoparticles, carbon…
November 27, 2017
Prof. Doug Tygar and his CS 194 Cybewar class are the focus of a New Yorker article titled “At Berkeley, a New Generation of “Ethical Hackers” Learns to Wage Cyberwar.” The students have teamed up with the white hat hackers at HackerOne, a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. …
November 27, 2017
Prof. Randy Katz has been inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame “for his contributions to storage and computer systems, distinguished national service, and by his exemplary mentorship and teaching that have contributed to the Silicon Valley technical community and industries.” Katz, who is also an alumnus (M.S.
November 21, 2017
Prof. Thomas Budinger has won the 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology. The award is presented “for exceptional contributions to technologies and applications benefitting healthcare, medicine, and the health sciences.” Budinger, who was the founding chair of the Bioengineering department, a division…