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February 15, 2022

Pilawa Research Group paper wins 1st place 2020 PELS Transactions Prize Paper Award

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…

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February 15, 2022

Marti Hearst is named iSchool’s new head of school

CS Prof. and alumna Marti Hearst (B.A. ’85/M.S. ’89/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: Robert Wilensky) has been named the new head of school for UC Berkeley’s School of Information (iSchool).   Hearst, who was the iSchool’s first assistant professor in 1997, is taking over the position from CS Prof. Hany Farid.  She will manage…

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February 2, 2022

Berkeley CS students help build a database of police misconduct in California

Students in the Data Science Discovery Program are filling a gap in engineering resources to help journalists more easily sort through large stores of records for their research.  The Discovery Program, which is part of Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), connects  around 200 undergraduates with hands-on,…

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February 2, 2022

Aditya Parameswaran wins 2022 IIT Bombay Young Alumni Achievers Award

EECS Associate Prof. Aditya Parameswaran has been selected to receive the Young Alumni Achievers Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.  This award “recognizes and celebrates the outstanding achievements of [IIT’s] young alumni in their chosen field of endeavor.”  Parameswaran, who has a joint appointment at the I…

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February 1, 2022

Sergey Levine, Nilah Ioannidis, and Dorsa Sadigh awarded 2022 Okawa Research Grants

EECS Associate Prof. Sergey Levine, Assistant Prof. Nilah Ioannidis, and alumna Dorsa Sadigh have won 2022 Okawa Research Grants.  These grants recognize “studies and analyses in the fields of information and telecommunications.” Levine is doing research on “Offline Reinforcement Learning: Robust and Reliable Decisions from Data,” Ioannidis is working on “Genome-Scale…

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February 1, 2022

Ed Lee wins 2022 EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award

EECS alumnus, Professor in the Graduates School,  and EE Prof. Emeritus Edward A. Lee (Ph.D. 1986, advisor: David Messerschmitt) has won the 2022 European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Achievement Award.  This award recognizes individuals who have “made outstanding contributions to the state of the art in electronic design, automation and…

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January 27, 2022

Ruzena Bajcsy and Eric Brewer named 2021 AAAS Fellows

EECS Prof. Emeriti Ruzena Bajcsy and Eric Brewer have been named 2021 Honorary Fellows of  the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the scientific community’s highest honors.  Bajcsy, who was elected in the Engineering category, is known for her pioneering and multidisciplinary contributions to machine perception,…

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January 24, 2022

Marti Hearst inducted into 2021 ACM SIGIR Academy inaugural class

CS alumna Prof. Marti Hearst (B.A. ’85/M.S ’89./Ph.D. ’94,  advisor: Robert Wilensky), whose primary appointment is in the School of Information, has been named to the 2021 inaugural class of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy. SIGIR Academy membership recognizes the “principal leaders in IR” who…

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January 18, 2022

Jelani Nelson wins 2022 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award

CS Prof. Jelani Nelson has won the 2022 Computing Research Association Education (CRA-E) Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award.  This award recognizes “individual faculty members who have provided exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences and, in parallel, guidance on admission and matriculation of these students to research-focused graduate programs in computing.”  Nelson…