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Sky Computing

May 25, 2022

New Sky Computing Lab aims to revolutionize the cloud industry

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…

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May 23, 2022

EECS faculty applaud graduates’ resilience

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,…

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May 16, 2022

Shiekh Zia Uddin wins 2022 MRS Graduate Student Gold Award

EECS graduate student Shiekh Zia Uddin (advisor: Ali Javey) has won a Materials Research Society (MRS) 2022 Graduate Student Gold Award.  These awards recognize “students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research.”  Uddin works in the areas of photophysics and optoelectronics of low dimensional…

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May 16, 2022

Angjoo Kanazawa wins Society of Helman Fellows Evergreen Fellowship

CS Assistant Prof. Angjoo Kanazawa has won the Society of Hellman Fellows Evergreen Fellowship.  The Society of Hellman Fellows is an endowed UC program administered by the Vice Provost for the Faculty that provides research funding “to promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their chosen fields.” …

Prof. Raluca Ada Popa

May 12, 2022

Raluca Ada Popa wins 2021 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

EECS Associate Prof. Raluca Ada Popa is the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award.  This award recognizes an outstanding young computer professional who has made a single recent major technical or service contribution to the field of computer science before the age of 35.  Popa was recognized…

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May 11, 2022

Kam Lau wins Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award

EECS Prof. Emeritus Kam Lau, has won the 2022 California Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor presented by Caltech to its alumni.  He was cited “for extraordinary contributions to society as an engineer, entrepreneur, and artist.” Lau is known for his pioneering developments and commercialization of RF…

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May 5, 2022

Finsen Chiu wins BSA Excellence in Management Award

Finsen Chiu, the EECS Instructional Support Group Manager, has won a Berkeley Staff Assembly (BSA) 2022 Excellence in Management (EIM) Award.  This award “honors exemplary non-academic managers and supervisors who have led their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year.”  The 2022 theme, building and maintaining community,…

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May 4, 2022

Putri Karunia’s Typedream allows users to build no-code websites

EECS alumna Putri Karunia (B.S. ’19) who co-founded 2022 Forbes 30-Under-30 Enterprise Tech company “Typedream,” is the subject of a profile titled “Putri Karunia proves that women not only belong in tech startups, but will actually make them more successful and profitable.” Karunia, who was raised in Indonesia, graduated cum…

Rediet Abebe, EEAMO 2021

April 26, 2022

Rediet Abebe named 2022 Carnegie Fellow

CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe has been named to the 2022 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.  This fellowship recognizes “scholars and writers in the humanities and social sciences” who are addressing “important and enduring issues confronting our society.”  Abebe’s research is in algorithms and artificial intelligence, with a focus on…