February 21, 2017
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…
February 21, 2017
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…
February 17, 2017
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,…
February 9, 2017
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…
February 8, 2017
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)…
February 8, 2017
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…
February 8, 2017
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…
February 6, 2017
On February 14th, Prof. Kameshwar Poollawill lead a Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) webinar titled “The Sharing Economy for the Smart Grid.” Funded by the DOE, this free, public webinar will explore sharing economy opportunities in the electricity sector. The presentation will also discuss control technology platforms…
February 6, 2017
Professor in Residence Trevor Darrell has been hired as Chief Scientist at Nexar, the world’s first over-the-top vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) network that turns smartphones into Artificial Intelligence Dashcams. In parallel to his work in EECS, Darrell will lead research in the area of machine vision deep learning…
February 6, 2017
Associate Prof. Pieter Abbeel and the Robot Learning Lab are profiled in a comprehensive article for Datamation titled “Artificial Intelligence: When Will the Robots Rebel?” The article covers the foundational tools of AI, like machine learning, and delves into subjects like the human desire to replicate itself,…