March 10, 2017
EECS Prof. Emeritus Kenneth K. Mei, innovator in computational electromagnetics, passed away on Feb 16, 2017 at the age of 84. Prof. Mei was born in China, served as an interpreter during the Korean War, earned his degrees at the University of Wisconsin, and joined the EECS department in 1962. …
March 9, 2017
CS alumnus Andrew Ng (Ph.D. ’02), Chief Scientist at Baidu, founder of Google Brain, co-founder of Coursera, and Stanford adjunct professor, describes in a video on Inside HPC how artificial intelligence is transforming the industrial landscape. He compares the impact of AI to that of electricity, which radically transformed…
March 9, 2017
Alumnus Gary Dean Hornbuckle (EE B.S. ’61/M.S. ’62/Ph.D. ’67), a pioneer in the computing industry who formed a number of his own companies, passed away on March 1, 2017. He spent 2 years on the research staff at M.I.T. before forming Applicon, Inc. in 1969, one of the first Computer…
March 9, 2017
Vani Mandava, the Director of Data Science at Microsoft Research, has written an article about the innovative course Foundations of Data Science taught by CS Assistant Teaching Prof. John DeNero and Ani Adhikari, a Teaching Professor in the Department of Statistics. Mandava examines the motives and experiences…
March 9, 2017
EECS alumna Sarah Bergbreiter (M.S. ’04/Ph.D. ’07) is the subject of a profile by the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland celebrating female engineering faculty during women’s history month. Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research,…
March 9, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan and EECS alumna Yoky Matsuoka (B.S. ’93) are among Interesting Engineering‘s “17 Awesome Women Engineers” who are revolutionizing the engineering field in 2017. Anca is described as “one of the rising stars of the robotics scene” as the head of the InterACT Lab…
March 2, 2017
EE Profs. Ruzena Bajcsy and Stuart Russell appear in an article in the Berkeley Science Review titled “Automating Us,” in which they are quoted discussing the impacts of recent technological developments on both robots and humans.
March 2, 2017
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy and EECS alumus student (now post doc in the HART Lab) Robert Matthew (M.S. EE ’15) are featured in a Berkeley Research article titled “Engineering to Restore Power to the People”. Supported by the Signature’s Innovation Fellows Program, Matthew and Prof. Bajcsy have developed…
March 1, 2017
2016-17 Bakar Fellow Prof. Ali Javey is profiled in a Berkeley Research article titled “Physiological Changes Tracked Moment to Moment,” in which he discusses his research into a network of sensors that can be embedded into a sweatband to monitor moment-by-moment changes in electrolytes and metabolites. Prof. Javey…
February 28, 2017
CS postdoctoral scholar Philip Isola (Associate Prof. Alyosha Efros) is profiled in an an article in The Cornell Daily Sun titled “Computer Science Colloquium: Do Machines See What I See?” in which he discusses strategies that might allow systems to understand the visual world. “My ultimate goal is…