July 20, 2017
EE Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller will make a presentation on the theme of Reverse-Engineering the Brain at this year’s Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS). Muller is co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies, a company which designs medical devices for the treatment of incurable neurological conditions. “We can use devices that…
July 18, 2017
Laura Barghout, a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Initiative for Soft Computing (BISC), has been hired as Chief Vision Scientist of Last Studio Standing, the largest hand-drawn animation studio in the Western Hemisphere. Barghout invented a Gestalt-based fuzzy inference system and labeling technique that is used commercially in…
July 18, 2017
CS graduate student Aviad Rubinstein (advisor: Christos Papadimitriou) is featured in a Quanta Magazine article titled “In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium,” which describes the results of his paper on game theory proving that no method of adapting strategies in response to previous games will converge efficiently…
July 18, 2017
Corelight, a cybersecurity startup co-founded by CS Prof. Vern Paxson, has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners, with participation from Osage University Partners and Riverbed Technology Co-founder (and former Berkeley CS professor) Dr. Steve McCanne. Corelight provides powerful network visibility solutions for cybersecurity built on…
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…