News

daveepstein

April 13, 2022

Dave Epstein wins 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship

CS graduate student Dave Epstein (advisor: Alexei Efros) has won a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowship for New Americans.  This fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students who are immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States, and “who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, culture…

Bin Yu

April 12, 2022

Bin Yu chosen as speaker for 2023 Wald Lectures

EECS Prof. Bin Yu (Statistics M.A. ’87/Ph.D. ’90) has been chosen by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) to present the 2023 Wald Memorial Lectures.  Considered the highest honor bestowed by the IMS, a single Wald Lecturer is selected annually to deliver a series of one, two, three or four one-hour…

Audrey Sillers, Undergrad Office

April 7, 2022

Audrey Sillers wins 2022 BSA Excellence in Management Award

Audrey Sillers, the EECS Director of Student Diversity, 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,…

alishamenon

April 7, 2022

Alisha Menon wins 2022 Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award

EECS Ph.D. candidate Alisha Menon (M.S. ’20, advisor: Jan Rabaey) has won a 2022 Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award.  This award, presented by The Graduate Assembly, honors four Berkeley graduate and professional students annually “who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and generally supporting either undergraduate students or…

Associate Prof. Pieter Abbeel

April 6, 2022

Pieter Abbeel wins 2021 ACM Prize in Computing

EECS Prof. Pieter Abbeel is the recipient of the 2021 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Prize in Computing.  This award  recognizes an early to mid-career computer scientist whose has made “a fundamental innovative contribution in computing that, through its depth, impact and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline.” …

berkeleyeecs-uc-seal-500px

March 31, 2022

Berkeley EECS ranks 1 & 2 in 2023 US News graduate rankings

Berkeley EECS is once again ranked as the #1 Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering graduate program in the country for 2023, tied with MIT and  Stanford.  The Berkeley Computer Engineering graduate program ranked #2 (tied with Stanford), as did the Computer Science graduate program (tied with Carnegie Mellon and Stanford).  Berkeley Engineering, as a…

efrat-shimrjon400x400

March 24, 2022

‘Off label’ use of imaging databases could lead to bias in AI algorithms, study finds

A paper with lead author EECS postdoc Efrat Shimron and co-authors EECS graduate student Ke Wang, UT Austin professor Jonathan Tamir (EECS PhD ’18), and EECS Prof. Michael Lustig shows that algorithms trained using “off-label” or misapplied massive, open-source datasets are subject to integrity-compromising biases.  The study, which was published in…

Associate Prof. Pieter Abbeel

March 24, 2022

Robots, AI and podcasting: a Q&A with Pieter Abbeel

EECS Prof. Pieter Abbeel launched “The Robot Brains Podcast” in the spring of 2021.   In each episode, he is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from around the world to explore how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. …

chancolloq-drake-napolitano-may-yudof

March 24, 2022

3 UC Presidents and Gary S. May

UC Davis Chancellor and EECS alumnus Gary S. May (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Costas Spanos) took the stage with UC President Michael V. Drake and Presidents Emeriti Janet S. Napolitano and Mark G. Yudof  for the UCD Chancellor’s Colloquium on March 8th.  The four discussed the challenges they faced and…