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…
June 9, 2022
EECS alumna and former Regents Chancellor’s Scholar Divya Periyakoil (B.S. 2020) has won a Bloomberg Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Bloomberg fellows are awarded full scholarships to pursue a Master or Doctor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins to tackle one of five critical health…
June 6, 2022
EECS graduate students Roderick Bayliss III (advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski) and Vivek Nair (advisor: Dawn Song) have been selected to receive 2022 Hertz Fellowships. One of the most prestigious awards of its kind, Hertz Fellowships support PhD students whose research show “the greatest potential to tackle society’s most urgent problems.” Bayliss…
June 3, 2022
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence researchers are joining forces with climate experts, government agencies, and industry, as part of the new Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Climate Initiative, a multi-disciplinary student-led hub dedicated to fighting climate change. The effort is being led by co-founding director CS Prof. Trevor Darrel and organized by three…
June 3, 2022
Two of EECS Prof. Ren Ng’s former graduate students, Pratul Srinivasan and Benjamin Mildenhall, jointly received an honorable mention for the 2021 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is presented annually to the “author(s) of the best doctoral dissertation(s) in computer science and engineering.” Srinivasan and…
June 3, 2022
CS Prof. Stuart Russell has won the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2022 Award for Research Excellence. This award is one of the IJCAI’s highest honors and recognizes “a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality throughout an entire career yielding several…
May 27, 2022
CS Prof. Jennifer Chayes, the Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science (CDSS) and the Dean of the School of Information, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from Bard College in New York on May 28th. Chayes is known for her work on phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer…
May 25, 2022
Sky Computing Lab, the latest 5-year collaborative research lab launched out of Berkeley EECS, aims to build a new backbone for interconnected cloud computing, a milestone that would revolutionize the industry. The lab will leverage distributed systems, programming languages, security, and machine learning to decouple the services that companies want…
May 23, 2022
EECS Assistant Prof. Nika Haghtalab and CS Assistant Prof. and Associate Prof. in the School of Information, David Bamman, are quoted in a Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) article about the resiliency and determination of the 2022 graduating class, particularly during the pandemic. “This generation of students has persevered,…