June 23, 2021
CS/IEOR/Art Practice Prof. Ken Goldberg, who is also affiliated with Radiation Oncology at UCSF, is the subject of an interview with Ron Latanision and Cameron Fletcher for the National Academy of Engineering. Goldberg discusses the relationship between art and science in Western culture, the dual nature of his career…
June 22, 2021
CS Prof. Stuart Russell, has been named a 2021 Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). The Officer rank is the second of the order, and is bestowed by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom twice a year to reward valuable “services rendered to the United…
June 21, 2021
EECS Assistant Prof. Jonathan Ragan-Kelley is the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) 2021 Significant New Researcher Award. The award honors researchers who are new to the field of computer graphics and who have made “recent, significant contributions to…
June 10, 2021
Five projects led by EECS faculty have won C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (DTI) AI for Energy and Climate Security Awards. The awards recognize projects that are using AI techniques and digital transformation to advance energy efficiency and lead the way to a lower-carbon, higher-efficiency economy that will ensure energy and…
June 9, 2021
CS Prof. Jennifer Chayes, who is also the Associate Provost for the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), is the recipient of the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award. She was selected for the award, which recognizes outstanding career-long “contributions to the computing community at…
June 7, 2021
CS Profs. Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker have each donated $25M toward the construction of The Gateway, the new building that will house the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). The Gateway is conceived as “a planned nexus for collaborative, integrated data science and computing education and research…
June 7, 2021
EECS Instructional Support Group (ISG) systems administrator Yang “Linda” Huang, has just published her third book, My Good Son (University of New Orleans Press, May 2021). The novel, described as “layered, evocative and engaging” by Ms Magazine, had been selected for the University of New Orleans (UNO) Publishing Lab Prize…
June 1, 2021
The EECS department will be welcoming three new chairs, all of whom are EECS alumni, to guide the department for the next two years. The new tripartite structure reflects the growth and changing needs of the department, which has been managed by a two-person leadership team for over 20 years.
June 1, 2021
EECS Prof. S. Shankar Sastry has won the 2021 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Rufus Oldenburger Medal for significant contributions and outstanding achievements to the field and profession of automatic control. Sastry, who was dean of Berkeley Engineering for over ten years, was cited “For fundamental contributions to the…
May 26, 2021
A team at the Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group (NLP) helped augment an AI system named “Dr. Fill” that has won the 2021 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). This is the first time in the contest’s history that an AI has trumped its human competitors. The team, which included CS…