July 26, 2017
Somayeh Sojoudi appointed EECS Assistant Professor in Residence
Somayeh Sojoudi has been officially…
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July 24, 2017
Justine Sherry wins the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
CS alumna Justine Sherry (M.S. ’12/Ph.D. ’16 advisor: Sylvia Ratnasamy) has won the ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication. Justine’s thesis was on “Middleboxes as a Cloud Service,” and brought the benefits of cloud computing to the networking domain. Justine is…
July 20, 2017
“Earable” 3D-printed ear-mounted sensors will monitor body’s core temperature
EE Prof. Ali Javey and his research into “Earables,” are profiled in a Digital Trends article titled 3D printed ear-mounted wearable will Monitor your body’s core temperature. Earables represent a class of ‘structural electronics’ where sensors and electronics are embedded in the fabricated structure itself. “Monitoring core body temperature…
July 20, 2017
Rikky Muller takes on the challenge of reverse-engineering the brain
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
Lauren Barghout Joins Last Studio Standing as Chief Vision Scientist
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
Aviad Rubinstein helps show that game players won’t necessarily find a Nash equilibrium
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
Vern Paxson’s cybersecurity startup Corelight raises $9.2M in Series A funding
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
Jose Carmena and Michel Maharbiz win 2017 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award
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
Compressed light field microscopy helps build a window into the brain
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
Soumitra Dutta named Chairman of AACSB International Board of Directors
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…