October 12, 2021
The 2019-20 EECS Teaching Awards recognize three members of our faculty whose extraordinary performances kept students focused and engaged during a particularly difficult year. The CS Diane McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Anca Dragan in the spirit of McEntyre who was know for her “dedication to…
October 11, 2021
The Diversifying LEAdership in the Professoriate (LEAP) Alliance (formerly called the FLIP Alliance), is one of the benefactors of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Computing and Information Technology (CMD-IT) to support the Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance (BPC-A). UC Berkeley…
October 11, 2021
EECS Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu has been selected to receive the…
October 10, 2021
EECS Ph.D. student Matthew Anderson (advisors: Jan Rabaey and Ali Niknejad) has won the …
October 4, 2021
EECS alumnus Yang You (Ph.D. ’20, advisor: James Demmel) has won the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing. The focus of his research is efficient deep learning on distributed systems. He is known for developing the industry benchmark…
October 1, 2021
Sumit Gulwani (Ph.D. ’05, advisor: George Necula), now a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, has been selected to receive the 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for “automatic programming and computational education.” Gulwani, who won the ACM SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation award and the MSR Ph.d. Fellowship while at Berkeley,…
September 30, 2021
CS Prof. Katherine Yelick has been named UC Berkeley’s next vice chancellor for research. She will take over the role from EECS Prof. Randy Katz on January 1, 2022. Yelick is an expert in the field of parallel computing and currently serves as executive associate dean in the Division of…
September 24, 2021
Graduate students Sagnik Bhattacharya (B.A. CS and Statistics ’21) and Jay Shenoy (B.A. CS ’21) are recipients of the 2022 Siebel Scholars award. The Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes “exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.” Bhattacharya, a 5th Year Masters student and…
September 17, 2021
CS Prof. Ali Ghodsi will be the inaugural speaker for “The Tale of a Success” entrepreneurship series, hosted by the Iranian Students of California (ISC) in collaboration with the Berkeley Iranian Students Association in America (ISAA). Ghodsi is a co-founder and the CEO of enterprise software company Databricks, a start-up…
September 7, 2021
EECS Associate Prof. Boubacar Kanté is among the authors of a paper published in the journal Science titled “Plasmonic topological metasurface by encircling an exceptional point.” The paper introduces “an additional degree of freedom to address optical phase engineering by exploiting the topological features of non-Hermitian matrices operating near [the]…