April 4, 2017
Radhika Mittal and Sam Chiu-Wai Wong win 2017 Google PhD Fellowships
Graduate students Radhika Mittal (advisors: …
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March 29, 2017
Valerie Taylor named Director of Argonne National Lab’s Math & CS Division
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
Tsu-Jae King Liu talks chip efficiency on Moore’s Law Panel
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
Matthias Vallentin and Vern Paxson take a “VAST” Step Forward in Cyber Security
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
Baiyu Chen awarded top prize at Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge
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 rises to a disability challenge
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…
March 20, 2017
Eli Yablonovitch to receive IEEE William R. Cherry Award
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch has been awarded the IEEE William R. Cherry Award, which is the highest IEEE Award for solar cells. This award recognizes an individual engineer or scientist who has devoted a part of their professional life to the advancement of the science and technology of…
March 20, 2017
Raghav Chandra’s UrbanClap dominates India’s on-demand services ecosystem
Alumnus Raghav Chandra (EECS B.S. ’11) and his second start-up, UrbanClap, are the subject of a Live Mint article describing the formation and rise of the most funded start-up in the still nascent hyperlocal segment of the on-demand services sector in India. UrbanClap, which aggregates 107 local services…
March 16, 2017
Jan Rabaey to receive two honorary doctorates
Prof. Jan Rabaey will be receiving two honorary doctorates. The first one is for scientific merit from the University of Antwerp in Belgium on March 30, 2017. The second one will follow on May 20 from the Tampere University of Technology. The title of Honorary Doctor is the highest…
March 15, 2017
Dan Garcia’s research group GameCrafters featured in PBS Newshour article
Prof. Dan Garcia was interviewed in a PBS Newshour article titled “This Pi Day, use math to beat your friends at classic toy games”. To celebrate Pi Day, mathematicians and physicists explored three classic toys, hula hoops, yo-yo’s and Connect Four on ways to be the most successful…