March 18, 2022
CS graduate student Chandan Singh (advisor: Bin Yu) has made it to the semi-finals of the 2022 Berkeley Grad Slam Competition, a UC showcase for graduate student research presented in three-minute talks for a general audience, likened to short Ted Talks. In “Unlocking Scientific Secrets by Distilling Neural Networks,” Singh…
March 16, 2022
CS graduate student Lucas Spangher (advisor: Costas Spanos) gathered musicians from all over the Bay Area to perform a benefit concert in support of Ukraine on March 13th. Opera and gospel singers, violists, pianists and harpists, were among the more than one dozen volunteers to participate in the Benefit Concert…
March 8, 2022
EECS and Bioengineering Prof. Steven Conolly has been awarded the 2022 U.C. Berkeley Bakar Prize. This prize is given annually to former Bakar Program Fellows whose technological innovations promise to deliver solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Funds are provided to help new technologies transition from an…
March 6, 2022
EE alumnus Colin Parris (M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’94, advisor: Domenico Ferrari) has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). After a career at IBM Systems & Technology and General Electric (GE) Research, Parris is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at GE. He is known for…
March 4, 2022
CS Prof. Emeritus and Prof. in the Graduate School Scott Shenker has won the 2022 UC Berkeley Fiat Lux Faculty Award. This achievement award, which is co-presented by the UC Berkeley Foundation and the Cal Alumni Association, recognizes a “faculty member whose extraordinary contributions go above and beyond the call…
February 28, 2022
EECS Prof. Katherine Yelick has won the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award. This award recognizes “a person or organization that has made an outstanding service contribution” with a major impact “to the computing research community” in the areas of government, professional societies, publications, conferences, or leadership. Yelick has been a…
February 24, 2022
Three EECS alumnae are featured in a 150W Black Women Matter web page recognizing the legacies of Black women at Cal as part of the 2022 Black History Month celebrations. The web page, which was put together by EECS Emerita Director of Diversity Sheila Humphreys, highlights 31 Cal pioneers whose…
February 21, 2022
Lee Julian Purnell is the first Black student who is known to have graduated from the EECS department. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, graduated from Berkeley High in 1915, was a superb track athlete, and earned a B.A. from Cal in 1919. He got his B.S. in Electrical…
February 16, 2022
CS Assistant Prof. Avishay Tal has been selected as a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science. This award recognizes outstanding early-career faculty for their “potential to revolutionize their fields of study.” Tal is a member of the Theory group; his interests include computational complexity, analysis of boolean…
February 15, 2022
Researchers from the Pilawa Research Group, including EECS alumnus Nathan Pallo (Ph.D. ’21), EECS Associate Prof. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, and former postdoc Tomas Modeer, have won one of four 1st place 2020 IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Transactions Prize Paper Awards. Their paper, which was co-authored by Pilawa-Podgurski’s UIUC graduate students, Tom Foulkes…