July 14, 2017
Professors Jose Carmena and Michel Maharbiz have won a 2017 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award for “Neural Dust: an ultrasonic, low power, extreme miniature technology for completely wireless and untethered neural recordings in the brain.” These annual awards come with a $200K prize and are aimed at advancing the…
July 13, 2017
In a project funded by a $21.6M donation from DARPA, a light field microscope developed by EE Associate Prof. Laura Waller, MCB Assistant Prof. Hillel Adesnik and their lab groups, is being used to create a window into the brain through which researchers — and eventually physicians — can…
July 13, 2017
Alumnus Soumitra Dutta (CS M.S. ’87/Business M.S. ’89/CS Ph.D. ’90), who is currently founding Dean of the Cornell College of Business, has been chosen Chairman of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International board of directors. Dutta previously founded the eLab at the…
July 13, 2017
Undergraduates Richard Li (CS), Veeral Patel, Yian Liou (EECS), and Roy Tu (EECS, graduated 2016) have qualified for the 2nd Annual Cambridge 2 Cambridge Cybersecurity Challenge (C2C), which will be held July 24-26, 2017 at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, in England. Conceived as a…
July 12, 2017
Zephyr, the solar vehicle built by UC Berkeley’s CalSol team (including sophomore Wen Rui Liau, one of Prof. James Demmel’s research students), has won the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP). The FSGP is an annual nationwide solar vehicle race that takes place on closed-loop race tracks. From…
July 10, 2017
In October 2006, Netflix announced “The Netflix Prize,” a $1M competition where teams of programmers raced to make the Netflix recommendation engine 10% more accurate. The nail-biting competition is profiled in an article for Thrilllist which prominently features participant and CS alumnus Lester Mackey (Ph.D. ’12), then an undergraduate…
July 7, 2017
EECS alumnus Paul E. Jacobs (B.S. ’84/M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’89) has been named U.C. Berkeley’s 2017 Alumnus of the Year. After graduating from Berkeley, Paul rose up the ranks at Qualcomm, which had been co-founded by his father, and is currently serving as Executive Chairman. He won the IEEE Weber…
July 7, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan has been selected to receive a 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant. This award recognizes promising young faculty members in the fields of information and telecommunications, and comes with a $10K prize. The presentaton ceremony will be held on September 20th in San Francisco.
July 6, 2017
The paper titled “ESPIRiT—an eigenvalue approach to autocalibrating parallel MRI: Where SENSE meets GRAPPA” co-written by Associate Prof. Michael Lustig, his graduate student Pat Virtue, and alumnus Mark J. Murphy (Ph.D. ’11 advisor: Kurt Keutzer) has been named the most-cited Magnetic Resonance in Medicine article from 2014. The…
July 3, 2017
In an article for the Daily Cal, undergraduate Taylor Choe thanks CS Assistant Teaching Prof. Josh Hug for helping her overcome her negative first impression of Berkeley and discover what makes it so special. “My mindset going into CS 61B was definitely not a positive one. I struggled with…