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,…
May 16, 2022
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…
May 16, 2022
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.” …
May 12, 2022
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…
May 11, 2022
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…