July 22, 2016
Prof. Sanjam Garg and Nir Yosef have been awarded Okawa Foundation Research Grants for 2016. This award recognizes promising young faculty members in the fields of information and telecommunications. Prof. Garg, whose research interests are in cryptography, security and more broadly theoretical computer science is awarded for his…
July 19, 2016
Prof. David Tse has been named recipient of the 2017 IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award. This award is the highest honor in the field of information theory and was instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a…
July 19, 2016
EECS Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Belle Wei (Chair of Engineering Education and Innovative Learning at San Jose State) penned an article for the Mercury News titled “Closing tech workforce gap calls for interdisciplinary model.” In it, they argue that there is a desperate need to increase the future number…
July 19, 2016
The L&S Computer Science Division is featured in a Tech Crunch article titled “How generation Z females could be the answer to tech’s gender diversity problem.” The article discusses challenges in closing the gender gap and new initiatives designed to attract and retain girls to science and technology fields. The CS…
July 19, 2016
Alumni Sumit Gulwani (CS Ph.D. 2005) is at the centre of an effort to bring the power of computer code to those who are unable to write it themselves. Sumit’s research is featured in a Financial Times article which describes how his team at Microsoft developed Flash Fill for Excel…
July 13, 2016
EECS Ph.D. student Nick Carlini (advisor Prof. David Wagner) in collaboration with a team of researchers from Georgetown University are featured in a number of news articles. They have revealed how secret commands could use voice-control tools like Siri and Google Now to take over your smartphone without your knowledge.
July 13, 2016
Intel has announced Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu to be added to their board of directors, marking the second woman to be on their governing body. Prof. King Liu will join lawyer and former ambassador Charlene Barshefsky as the only two women on Intel’s board. “She brings a wealth of…
July 12, 2016
EECS Alumna Fang Yu (Ph.D. CS 2006), co-founder of DataVisor and expert in “big-data for security,” joins with Yinglian Xie to answer questions posed by Laura Dunn of the Huffington Post. “It’s important to remember that true innovation is a process, as long as you continue to learn…
June 27, 2016
Prof. Kannan Ramchandran has been selected to receive the 2017 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications. Prof. Ramchandran is recognized for his pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of distributed source and storage coding. He pioneered…
June 27, 2016
Prof. Claire Tomlin has been selected to receive the 2017 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award, which recognizes advances in technologies applied in transportation systems. Prof. Tomlin is being recognized for contributions to air transportation systems, focusing on collision avoidance protocol design and avionics safety verification. She pioneered methods for computing…