October 18, 2017
EECS alumnus Bryan Catanzaro (Ph.D. ’11) is interviewd by Byron Reese for episode 13 of his series Voices in AI. Catanzaro, who is the head of Applied AI Research at NVIDIA, discusses sentience, transfer learning, speech recognition, autonomous vehicles, and economic growth. “I like to think about artificial intelligence…
October 18, 2017
EE alumnus Amnon Yariv (B.S ’54/M.S. ’56/Ph.D. ’58) has been named a 2017 Honorary Member of the Optical Society (OSA). Honorary Membership is the most distinguished of all OSA Member categories and is awarded to individuals who have made unique, seminal contributions to the field of optics. Yariv was elected…
October 18, 2017
EE Associate Prof. Chunlei Liu has co-authored a study which has identified a specific molecular pathway that links maternal fever early in pregnancy to some congenital heart and cranial facial birth defects. The findings, which were published in the journal Science Signaling, suggest a portion of congenital birth defects…
October 17, 2017
Computer Science faculty in the Real-Time Intelligent Secure Execution Lab (RISELab) have outlined challenges in systems, security and architecture that may impede the progress of Artificial Intelligence, and propose new research directions to address them. The paper, A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI, was authored by…
October 10, 2017
Turing Award-winning computer scientist Shafi Goldwasser will become the new Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, on January 1, 2018. The Simons Institute is the world’s leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science. Established on July 1, 2012…
October 10, 2017
The Department of EECS is pleased to announce the appointment of Nir Shavit as Visiting Professor, effective July 1, 2018. Shavit is a leading researcher in the field of distributed and parallel computation. The central issue in this area is managing a shared memory across a number of processors while maintaining consistency…
October 6, 2017
A team of U.C. Berkeley researchers including Associate Prof. Chunlei Liu, Prof. Ana Arias, and Associate Prof. Michael Lustig, has been awarded a $13.43 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative. The team will use the money…
October 5, 2017
CS alumna Marie desJardins (Ph.D. ’92 adviser: Stuart Russell) has won the 2017 A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award. The award, named in honor of the late EE Prof. Richard Newton and presented annually at the Grace Hopper Celebration, recognizes educators who develop innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract girls…
October 4, 2017
EECS alumnus and security expert Alex Stamos (B.S. ’01) is profiled in an article in Recode about his role as Facebook’s Chief Security Officer. He is currently leading their internal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and co-authored a paper explaining how Russia carried out its…
October 2, 2017
Alumnus Mark Liu (EE M.S. ’80/Ph.D. ’83) has been named Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest foundry chipmaker. He is succeeding Morris Chang, who is retiring. Chang, known as the “father of Taiwan’s chip industry,’ built TSMC (an Apple Inc. supplier) into a business worth $185…