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…
November 21, 2017
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch has been awarded the 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Edison Medal. Named for Thomas Edison and presented since 1909, the IEEE Edison Medal is awarded for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts. Yablonovitch, who co-founded the…
November 21, 2017
Profs. Pieter Abbeel and Sanjit Seshia have been elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) class of 2018. The objectives of the IEEE, the world’s largest association of technical professionals, are the educational and technical advancement of electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering and allied…
November 20, 2017
EE alumnus Mark Heising (M.S. ’83) has been appointed to the board of trustees for The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). The IAS is one of the world’s leading centers for curiosity-driven basic research and serves as a model for protecting and promoting independent inquiry, prompting the establishment of similar institutes around…
November 20, 2017
EECS alumnus Warren “Woody” Hoburg (MS’11, Ph.D.’13) was named R&D Magazine’s 2017 Innovator of the Year at the 55th annual R&D 100 Awards last Friday. Hoburg recently left his position as an assistant professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT when he was selected by NASA to join the 2017…
November 20, 2017
CS Prof. Bernd Sturmfels has won the 2018 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics for “his instrumental role in creating the field of applied algebraic geometry.” This prize is jointly awarded by the American Math Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) every 3 years for “an outstanding…