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]…
September 7, 2021
CS Prof. Joseph Hellerstein, and Assistant Profs. Aditya Parmeswaran and Sarah Chasins, are among the principal investigators of a new lab that has just received a $2M grant from the National Science Foundation to make big datasets used by the criminal justice system more accessible to non-technical researchers. The Effective…
August 29, 2021
EECS alumna Hani Gomez (Ph.D. ’20, advisor: Kris Pister) is the subject of a Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) profile titled “Hani Gomez, Ph.D.: Computing Pedagogy at the Nexus of Technology and Social Justice.” Gomez was born in Bolivia and earned her B.S. in EE at the University…
August 29, 2021
The UC Berkeley Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club (BESAC) has been selected by the Cal Alumni Association Board of Directors and the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees to receive the 2021 Loyal Company Outstanding Volunteer Group Award. This award “commends a volunteer group or alumni chapter that has maintained a meaningful relationship to Berkeley…
August 29, 2021
EECS Assistant Prof. Gopala Anumanchipalli has been selected for the Rose Hills Innovator Program which supports distinguished early-career UC Berkley faculty who are “interested in developing highly innovative research programs” in STEM fields. The program will provide discretionary research support of up to $85,000 per year for “projects with an…
July 29, 2021
EECS Prof. Sanjit Seshia was a recipient of the CAV Award at the 2021 International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) earlier this month. This award is presented annually “for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer-Aided Verification,” and comes with a cash prize of $10K that is shared equally among…