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…
November 20, 2017
Dr. Jennifer Listgarten will join the EECS faculty effective Jan 1, 2018. Listgarten received her B.S. in CS and Physics at Queen’s University in Canada, and her M.S. (CS/computational vision) and Ph.D. (CS/bioinformatics/machine learning) from the University of Toronto. She has spent the past 10 years as a researcher at Microsoft;…
November 17, 2017
A new book, Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees, by EE alumnus C. L. Hoang (M.S. ’82), is set to be released by Willow Stream Publishing tomorrow. Hoang was born and raised in Vietnam during the war and came to the US in the 1970s. He wrote this travelogue about his…
November 17, 2017
The life and contributions of CS Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy are profiled in a Philadelphia Inquirer article titled “Philly honors experts in robotics, genetics, evolution.” Bajcsy, who helped launch the field of computer vision, is being presented with a John Scott Award in science and medicine at the American Philosophical Society this…
November 16, 2017
Alumnus Sanjay Mehrotra (EECS B.S. ’78/M.S. ’80) has been named the 2018 Vice Chair of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The SIA is a trade association and lobbying group positioned as “the voice of the U.S. semiconductor industry.” Mehrotra, who is currently CEO of Micron, led the growth of SanDisk…
November 15, 2017
Grad student Yang You, Prof. James Demmel and Prof. Kurt Keutzer, along with Prof. Cho-Jui Hsieh of UC Davis and Dr. Zhao Zhang of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), have created, in collaboration with researchers at NVIDIA, a new algorithm which enables them to harness the power of supercomputers…
November 15, 2017
EE alumnus Andreas Cangellaris (Ph.D. ’85) will be the next provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the first person to hold the job on a permanent basis in more than two years. Cangellaris joined the UI engineering faculty in 1997 and has been Dean of the College of Engineering…
November 14, 2017
CS alumna Diane Greene (M.S. ’88) sat down with Ginni Rometty and Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce conference last week to talk about women leaders in tech. Greene, who is currently the CEO of Google Cloud, started out designing offshore oil structures and systems before becoming a software engineer. She…
November 14, 2017
Prof. Stuart Russell teamed up with Autonomousweapons.org to create a provocative video called Slaughterbots, which shows what can go wrong when autonomous weapons are designed to target humans. “This short film is more than just speculation” Russell says. “It shows the results of integrating and miniaturizing…