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philip-isola

February 28, 2017

Philip Isola asks “Do machines see what I see?”

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…

zakhor

February 24, 2017

Avideh Zakhor featured in interview by bigthink.com

Prof. Avideh Zakhor is featured in a video interview by bigthink.com titled “Smart Tech: Phones, Drones and Interior Mapping”. Prof. Zakhor’s research interests include digital signal processing and its applications to 2D and 3D image and video processing, and communications. Applications of her research range from helping emergency…

riselab-stoica

February 22, 2017

EECS joins 5G Innovators Initiative to explore the Industrial Internet of Things

UC Berkeley has joined Honeywell and GE as initial participants in the 5G Innovators Initiative (5GI2), an open industry initiative designed to create transformative experiences that change lives, businesses and society, launched by Ericsson  and Intel Corporation.  The first segment of 5GI2 will focus on the Industrial Internet of Things…

gary-may

February 21, 2017

Gary May selected to be Chancellor of UC Davis

Dr. Gary May has been selected to become the 7th Chancellor of UC Davis. Dr. May is an alumnus of EECS (M.S. ’88 and Ph.D. ’92) and was one of the founding members of the Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students (BGESS) group. In 2010, he was named Outstanding Electrical…

renng

February 21, 2017

Ren Ng selected to receive 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship

Assistant Prof. Ren Ng has been selected to receive the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in the category of Computer Science. 126 early-career scholars are chosen to receive this prestigious award and represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Since 1955, Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to…

hearst

February 17, 2017

Marti Hearst elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy

Prof. Marti Hearst has been elected into the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Academy. The SIGCHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field,…

sparksummit-ion-stoica

February 9, 2017

Ion Stoica discusses the challenges of securing data on the move

At the Spark Summit East 2017, CS Prof. Ion Stoica was interviewed  by theCUBE about The challenges of securing data on the move.   Prof. Stoica, who is the executive chairman at Databricks Inc, says that “Security is always a difficult topic. It means so many things to so many…

Newly elected NAE members, Profs. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Katherine Yelick

February 8, 2017

Tsu-Jae King Liu and Katherine Yelick elected to the NAE

Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Prof. Katherine Yelick have been elected to the National Academy of Engineers (NAE).  Election to membership in the NAE is among the highest forms of recognition of notable accomplishments in engineering. Prof. King Liu was recognized for “contributions to the fin field effect transistor (FinFET)…

cz-biohub-test

February 8, 2017

Five EECS faculty among investigators awarded $14.5 million by CZ Biohub

Prof. Michel Maharbiz, Prof. Yun Song, Associate Prof. Laura Waller, Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller, and Assistant Prof. Nir Yosef are among the  thirteen UC Berkeley faculty chosen to receive up to $1.5 million each over the next five years by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.   The investigator awards are the…

wangyongdong

February 8, 2017

Yongdong Wang named Global Senior Vice President at Microsoft

Alumnus Yongdong Wang (CS Ph.D. ’92),  currently Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, has been named Microsoft’s Global Senior Vice President.  Wang joined Microsoft in 2009, founding the Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group in Beijing, and took on the additional role of managing director of Applications & Services Group…