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…
July 7, 2017
EECS alumnus Paul E. Jacobs (B.S. ’84/M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’89) has been named U.C. Berkeley’s 2017 Alumnus of the Year. After graduating from Berkeley, Paul rose up the ranks at Qualcomm, which had been co-founded by his father, and is currently serving as Executive Chairman. He won the IEEE Weber…
July 7, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan has been selected to receive a 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant. This award recognizes promising young faculty members in the fields of information and telecommunications, and comes with a $10K prize. The presentaton ceremony will be held on September 20th in San Francisco.
July 6, 2017
The paper titled “ESPIRiT—an eigenvalue approach to autocalibrating parallel MRI: Where SENSE meets GRAPPA” co-written by Associate Prof. Michael Lustig, his graduate student Pat Virtue, and alumnus Mark J. Murphy (Ph.D. ’11 advisor: Kurt Keutzer) has been named the most-cited Magnetic Resonance in Medicine article from 2014. The…
July 3, 2017
In an article for the Daily Cal, undergraduate Taylor Choe thanks CS Assistant Teaching Prof. Josh Hug for helping her overcome her negative first impression of Berkeley and discover what makes it so special. “My mindset going into CS 61B was definitely not a positive one. I struggled with…
June 28, 2017
The Turing Award 50th Anniversary celebration was held at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco on June 23-24, 2017. CS Professors Stuart Russell and Michael Jordan participated on a panel discussion about advances in deep neural networks, Prof. Umesh Vazirani moderated a panel on quantum computing. Prof. Emeritus and…
June 28, 2017
A paper co-authored by Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Alexandre Donze, along with researchers from Toyota, has been selected for the 2017 IEEE Transactions on CAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award. This award recognizes the best paper published in the Transactions on Computer-Aided…
June 27, 2017
EE graduate student Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (adviser: Anant Sahai) and CS graduate student César Torres (adviser: Eric Paulos) have won inaugural Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants. These grants offer financial support to selected doctoral students from groups that are under-represented in the field of computing. Of the 200 applicants,…
June 27, 2017
Alumnus Edgar Solomonik (CS Ph.D. ’14, adviser: James Demmel) has won the Alston S. Householder Prize XX (2017) for the best dissertation in numerical linear algebra. The Householder prize, which is presented once every three years at a Symposium held in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and…
June 27, 2017
EECS alumna Dawn Tilbury (M.S.’92, Ph.D.’94) will lead investments in fundamental engineering research and education as the newly appointed head of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG). ENG supports engineering research and education critical to the nation’s future and fosters innovations that benefit society. It provides about…