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.
September 12, 2017
CS Assistant Teaching Professor John DeNero is the inaugural recipient of the Charles and Dianne Giancarlo Teaching Fellowship. This fellowship supports excellence in undergraduate teaching in EECS and was made possible by a generous donation from alumnus Charles Giancarlo (EE M.S. ’80) and his wife, Dianne (co-founder of the Women’s…
September 11, 2017
CS Prof. Scott Shenker has won a 2017 Visionary Award from the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. The award was created to acknowledge entrepreneurs and “celebrate people with the imagination and persistence to innovate in the City of Berkeley.“ Shenker co-founded Nicira, a company focused on software-defined networking (SDN) and network…
September 10, 2017
CS/IEOR Prof. Ken Goldberg, director of the AUTOLAB, and his EE graduate student Jeff Mahler, are profiled in a New York Times article titled “In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own,” about researchers who are using neural networks and machine learning to teach robots to…
September 9, 2017
EECS sophomore Alex Montanez is part of the inaugural class of Hallac Scholars. The program, sponsored by the global asset management firm BlackRock, combines scholarship, mentorship and internship to help students learn how engineers can use their skills to develop innovative tech for delivering financial services. Although…