April 7, 2022
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,…
April 7, 2022
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…
April 6, 2022
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.” …
March 31, 2022
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…
March 28, 2022
Three EECS graduate students, Aviral Kumar (advisor: Sergey Levine), Serena Wang (advisors: Rediet Abebe and Michael Jordan), and Eric Wallace (advisors: Dan Klein and Dawn Song) have been named 2022 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship. This fellowship recognizes graduate and postgraduate students in the field of Artificial…
March 24, 2022
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…
March 24, 2022
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. …
March 24, 2022
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…
March 23, 2022
A new type of high-resolution LiDAR chip developed by EECS Prof. Ming Wu could lead to a new generation of powerful, low-cost 3D sensors for autonomous cars, drones, robots, and smartphones. The paper, which appeared in the journal Nature, was co-authored by his former graduate students Xiaosheng Zhang (Ph.D. ’21)…
March 18, 2022
EECS Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli will receive an Honorary Doctorate, or Doktor Honoris Causa, from AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland on March 18th. AGH UST includes engineering disciplines, exact sciences, Earth sciences, and social sciences, with an emphasis on current priorities of economy and business, and it…