August 18, 2017
CS graduate student Rebecca Portnoff (adviser: David Wagner) has developed the first algorithm to identify adult ads tied to human trafficking rings by linking the ads to public information from Bitcoin — the primary payment method for online sex ads. “The technology we’ve built finds connections between ads,” says Portnoff.
August 18, 2017
CS Prof. Katherine Yelick will give the HPC keynote on Exascale computing at the upcoming ACM Europe Conference. Yelick also serves as Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The event, which will take place on Sept. 7-8 in Barcelona, Spain, will focus on…
August 18, 2017
CS graduate student Grant Ho, Aashish Sharma (LBNL), CS alumna Mobin Javed (Ph.D. 2016), and CS Profs. Vern Paxson and David Wagner have won the 2017 Internet Defense Prize, worth $100,000, for their paper “Detecting Credential Spearphishing in Enterprise Settings.” CS graduate student Thurston Dang, Petros Maniatis (Google Brain),…
August 18, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan has been named one of 2017’s 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Each year, exceptionally talented young innovators are singled out for the honor because their work is thought to offer the greatest potential to transform the world. Dragan was nominated in…
August 15, 2017
U.C. Berkeley has been ranked best in the world in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and second best in Computer Science and Engineering, in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU), an assessment of 500 top institutions around the globe by ShanghaiRanking. EE’s score was 333.5, beating out Stanford …
August 14, 2017
Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine, Prof. Pieter Abbeel, and graduate student Chelsea Finn are featured in a CSO article highlighting research they presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). The research was done in partnership with the NVIDIA AI Labs (NVAIL) programme. Levine’s team wants to help intelligent…
August 14, 2017
CS Prof. Ken Goldberg has joined the Strategic Advisory Board of ROBO Global, creator of the first benchmark index to track the global robotics, automation and artificial intelligence market. Goldberg leads research in geometric algorithms and machine learning for robotics and in applications from surgery to manufacturing. “Ken is truly one of…
August 9, 2017
Alumna Barbara Grosz (CS M.S. ’71/Ph.D. ’77), Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The award recognizes the work of a researcher who has made sustained and impactful contributions…
July 27, 2017
EE alumnus Jonathan S. Maltz (Ph.D. EE ’99) is serving as the lead researcher and Chief Scientific Advisor during the clinical trials of HeartSentry, a non-invasive diagnostic tool to measure and monitor cardiovascular health. HeartSentry is being developed at Lexington Biosciences, a development-stage medical device company in Vancouver, Canada. …
July 27, 2017
CS alumnus Yannis Ioannidis (Ph.D. ’86) is featured in an article about Samsung’s purchase of Greek text-to-speech company Innoetics for close to 50 million euros. Ioannidis is president of the ATHENA Research & Innovation Center, which nurtured the startup and provided critical support during its evolution and the development…