May 12, 2021
EECS Assistant Profs. Somayeh Sojoudi and Alvin Cheung have received Office of Naval Research (ONR) 2021 Young Investigator Program Awards (YIP). The ONR YIP is one of the nation’s oldest and most selective basic-research, early-career awards in science and technology. It recognizes new-career faculty—who obtained their Ph.D. on or after…
May 11, 2021
Senior undergraduate and future graduate EECS student Leyla Kabuli has won the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor. She is the daughter of EECS alumna A. Nazli Gündes (Ph.D. ’88, advisor: Charles Desoer), now an ECE professor at UC Davis. Kabuli, who will graduate with a 4.0 GPA, attended Berkeley…
May 7, 2021
Third-year EECS graduate student Jiaheng Zhang (advisor: Dawn Song) has won a 2021 Facebook Fellowship for Security & Privacy. He is the only student from Berkeley this year to win one of these coveted fellowships, which are designed to support emerging scholars who are engaged in innovative research. Zhang’s focus…
May 4, 2021
Rising Stars 2021, an academic career workshop for women in EECS, will be hosted by MIT on October 14-15, 2021. The virtual event, which was hosted by Berkeley last year, is an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical…
May 3, 2021
EE alumnus and Prof. Charles Dalziel (1904-1986, B.S./M.S./E.E. 1935 ), the inventor of the Ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI), is the subject of an article in the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Spring 2021 Consumer Connection. Patented in 1965 by Dalziel, a professor in the department for 35 years…
April 28, 2021
EECS Prof. Jelani Nelson will participate on a panel discussing Berkeley’s first Black full professor, statistician David Blackwell, on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Blackwell made seminal contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the seventh African American to…
April 27, 2021
The Berkeley Blue team, which includes EECS undergraduates Ethan Guo and James Shi, and CS/Math undergraduate Justin Yokota, has won a silver medal at the 2020 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) North America West Division Championship. If the team does well in the North American Division (NADC) Championship this…
April 27, 2021
EECS Prof. Anthony Joseph has been name the next Director of the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. After earning his degrees at MIT, Joseph was hired as a professor of Computer Science at Berkeley in 1998. His primary research interests are in Genomics, Secure Machine Learning, Datacenters, mobile/distributed computing,…
April 23, 2021
EECS alumna and Assistant Teaching Prof. Gireeja Ranade (M.S. ’09/Ph.D. ’14, advisor: Anant Sahai), and Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) Ritika Shrivastava, Jay Monga, Maxson Yang, Suraj Rampure and Allen Shen have won UC Berkeley Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times awards. They are among 59 people from of pool of over…
April 21, 2021
CS Prof. and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigator Michel Maharbiz is the senior author of a paper in Nature Biotechnology titled “Monitoring deep-tissue oxygenation with a millimeter-scale ultrasonic implant,” which describes a tiny wireless implant that can provide real-time measurements of tissue oxygen levels deep underneath the skin. The device, which…