January 27, 2022
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,…
January 24, 2022
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…
January 21, 2022
A number of EECS faculty and students are slated to participate in the 2022 Diversity in Tech Symposium, which will be held virtually on March 10 & 11. This year’s theme is “Advancing Climate Resilience.” EECS Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of Berkeley Engineering, will warm up the audience with…
January 18, 2022
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…
January 18, 2022
CS Profs. John Kubiatowicz and Ken Goldberg, along with Berkeley’s Director of Research IT, Ken Lutz, have collaborated with the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) to create an animated series called “Tuff Pupil” which teaches children, ages 7 to 10, about important cyber security concepts…
January 13, 2022
Alumni Eric Fosler-Lussier (Ph.D. 1999, advisor: Nelson Morgan) and Luca Daniel (Ph.D. 2003, advisor: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli) have been named 2022 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The grade of Fellow is conferred upon a members of IEEE “with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the…
January 13, 2022
CS Associate Prof. Laura Waller, and Assistant Profs. Sarah Chasins and Nilah Ioannidis, are among the newest cohort of scientists to be named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators. The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, open to faculty from Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley, funds “innovative, visionary research with the goal of…
January 13, 2022
CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson has won the 2022 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Recognized as one of the world’s preeminent awards for engineering achievement, the prize “honors an engineer whose accomplishment has significantly impacted society by improving the quality of life,…
January 10, 2022
EECS alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. ’90/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: C. V. Ramamoorthy), has been awarded the 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal. The award recognizes “outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering, of great impact to IEEE fields of interest.” Chandrakasan, who is currently an EECS professor at MIT and…
January 10, 2022
EECS alumnus Warren “Woody” Hoburg (M.S. ’11/Ph.D. ’13, advisor: Pieter Abbeel), one of the first graduates of NASA’s Artemis astronaut basic training program in 2020, has been assigned to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission – the sixth crew rotation flight aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International…