June 30, 2022
Assistant Prof. Sophia Shao has won the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award, which recognizes outstanding research contributions by an individual in the field of Computer Architecture, and who received their Ph.D. within the last six years. Shao’s work focuses on specialized accelerators, heterogeneous architecture,…
June 21, 2022
EECS alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. 91, advisor: Richard White), the first woman to earn a doctorate from the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), has won the 2022 Mark Shannon Grand Challenges Award. This award recognizes “long-term contributions of members of our technical community with a vision to address humanity’s…
June 17, 2022
EECS Prof. Dan Klein and Assistant Prof. Angjoo Kanazawa have won 2022 Bakar Fellows Spark Awards. These awards are designed to accelerate Berkeley faculty-led research “to tangible, positive societal impact through commercialization.” Bakar Fellows become part of a campus ecosystem that provides support and programs to assist them in introducing…
June 16, 2022
EECS Prof. Emerita Ruzena Bajcsy and her daughter, Klara Nahrstedt, are the first mother-daughter pair to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Bajcsy has been a member of the NAE since 1997 and Nahrstedt, the Chair of the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois,…
June 16, 2022
EECS Prof. Emeritus Kam Lau has received the 2022 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA). Caltech’s highest honor, the DAA is presented each year “to a small number of alumni in recognition of personal and professional accomplishments that have made a noteworthy impact in a field, on…
June 15, 2022
CS Prof. Jelani Nelson has won the Best Paper Award at the 2022 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) on June 13th. The symposium is a collaboration between three ACM Special Interest Groups: Management of Data (SIGMOD), Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT), and Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI). Nelson’s award…
June 15, 2022
CS Prof. Emeritus Christos Papadimitriou has won the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award. This award was created “to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation or expansion and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented…
June 15, 2022
CS Prof. Jitendra Malik has been selected as one of two 2023 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecturers (FRL). This Lectureship is bestowed by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate to recognize faculty “whose research has changed the shape of their discipline” and invite them “to share their innovative work…
June 14, 2022
Groundbreaking synthesizer designer and EECS alumnus Dave Smith (B.S. 1971), died on May 31st at the age of 72. As an undergraduate, Smith wrote a program to compose music as a class project. “The computers were huge,” he said. “You wrote programs on punched cards, and you had to turn…
June 13, 2022
EECS Prof. Emeritus and alumnus Pravin Varaiya (Ph.D. 1966, advisor: Lotfi Zadeh) passed away on June 10th from injuries sustained when a truck hit him as he was walking in his neighborhood on April 1. He was 81 years old. A Professor in the Graduate School at the time of his…