November 30, 2021
EECS Prof. Emeritus Lotfi Zadeh (1921 – 2017) is being honored with a Google Doodle feature today. In 1964, Zadeh conceived a new mathematical concept called fuzzy logic which offered an alternative to rigid yes-no logic in an effort to mimic how people see the world. He proposed using imprecise…
November 26, 2021
CS Prof. Michael Jordan has co-written an article in Wired titled “The Turing Test Is Bad for Business” in which he argues that now that “computers are able to learn from data and…interact, infer, and intervene in real-world problems, side by side with humans,” humans should not try to compete with…
November 23, 2021
EECS Prof. Emeritus and alumnus Pravin Varaiya (Ph.D. 1966, advisor: Lotfi Zadeh), who is currently a Professor in the Graduate School, has won the 2022 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal. This major IEEE Corporate Award recognizes “exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.” Varaiya, who is known for his contributions…
November 19, 2021
EECS graduate student Rose A. Abramson (advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski) has won the European Power Electronics and Drives Association (EPE) 2021 Young Author Best Paper Award. Her paper, “A High Performance 48-to-8 V Multi-Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converter for Data Center Applications,” co-authored by EECS alumnus Zichao Ye (Ph.D. ’20) and Prof. Robert…
October 23, 2021
CS alumni Xiaoye Sherry Li (Ph.D. ’96, advisor: James Demmel) and Richard Vuduc (Ph.D. ’03, advisor: James Demmel) have, along with Piyush Sao of Georgia Tech, won the 2022 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Supercomputing (AG/SC) Best Paper Prize. This prize recognizes “the author or authors…
October 23, 2021
CS alumna Medha Kothari (B.A. ’20) is featured in an episode of California magazine’s The Edge podcast titled “Blockchain for the People.” While still a student, Kothari, who is currently a Research Partner at Variant, founded she256, a non-profit that “aims to increase diversity and break down barriers to entry in the…
October 22, 2021
Berkeley EECS is happy to announce the launch of the Center for Energy Efficient Deep Learning (CEEDL), a new Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence (CoE) with Prof. Kurt Keutzer as Principal Investigator and Prof. Joey Gonzalez as co-PI. This center will focus on producing energy-efficient algorithms and implementations for deep…
October 20, 2021
The Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) is excited to announce an upcoming event in collaboration with Cal Performances. On October 28, “Place and Displacement: Bias in Our Algorithms and Society” will feature Cal Artist-in-Residence Angélique Kidjo in conversation with CDSS Associate Provost Jennifer Chayes, EECS Assistant Professor…
October 14, 2021
EECS graduate student Zichao Ye (advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski) is among five winners selected by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) to showcase their Ph.D. projects to the global power electronics community. Ye’s thesis, titled “Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Power Converters: Fundamental Limits and Design Techniques,” focuses on a topological effort to drastically improve the…
October 13, 2021
EECS Prof. Emerita Ruzena Bajcsy has won the PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is presented biennially by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee for Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning (TCPAMI) to honor outstanding “researchers in Computer Vision who have made major contributions to the field over their…