April 5, 2017
BiasBusters @ Cal EECS will make a presentation at this year’s Community Grants Showcase: Changing Social Norms on April 19, 2017. BiasBusters @ Cal EECS focuses on engaging EECS faculty, staff, and students to shift culture and increase the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in our community. The…
April 5, 2017
Dr. Daniel Garcia and his course “CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing” (BJC) are featured in a New York Times article about curricula designed to develop computational thinking in students. The article, titled “Learning to Think Like a Computer,” covers strategies at a number of top institutions and…
April 4, 2017
The paper “X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework”, authored by EECS alumi Rodrigo Fonseca (Ph.D. ’08) and George Porter (Ph.D. ’08) and Professors Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, has received the 2017 Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) Test-of-Time Award. X-Trace was…
April 4, 2017
Charles Bordenave, an EECS/Statistics postdoc (Sept. 06-07) has been awarded thePrix Marc Yor by the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) of France. Charles Bordenave was an EECS/Statistics postdoc co-supervised by Prof. Venkatachalam Anantharam (EECS) and Prof. David Aldous (Statistics) and is currently with the French National…
April 4, 2017
Graduate students Radhika Mittal (advisors: …
March 29, 2017
Alumna Valerie Taylor (EE M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’91) has been appointed the next director of the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Taylor has received numerous awards for distinguished research and leadership and authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in…
March 24, 2017
EE Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, who participated in a semiconductor “Moore’s Law” panel discussion at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, is featured in an Electronic Design article titled “Forget Scaling. Moore’s Law Panel Talks Power Consumption.” Tsu-Jae, who helped pioneer the Finfet transistor in 1998, describes some…
March 23, 2017
Postdoctoral researcher Matthias Vallentin is developing VAST, a forensic analysis tool designed to help prioritize the investigation of computer security breaches. It complements Bro, a security tool devised by Prof. Vern Paxson when he was a graduate student 22 years ago and which is now used worldwide, to instantly collect huge volumes…
March 22, 2017
CS graduate student Baiyu Chen (advisor: Alexei Efros) and Anthony Barrs were awarded top prize and $50,000 for their design at the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge. Their idea, profiled in an article for Fortune, was to construct a “Hyperlane,” or a single platform the size…
March 22, 2017
Tomás Vega, a senior computer science and cognitive science major, was part of a team that participated in the first collegiate Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) event and which was profiled in a Jewish News article titled “Cal students pull a marathon to engineer disability solutions.” His team, led by…