May 20, 2021
Prof. Emeritus David Culler is a 2021 recipient of the Berkeley Citation, which is awarded to distinguished individuals whose contributions to UC Berkeley go beyond the call of duty and whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence in their fields. Prof. Culler has been on the faculty since 1989 and…
May 19, 2021
EE graduate student Charles Dove (advisor: Laura Waller) has been named a 2021 Fellow by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing groundbreaking applied science with real-world benefits for all humanity. Dove utilizes principles from machine learning and differentiable programming to create new methods for…
May 15, 2021
CS Prof. Mike Jordan has been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. The Royal Society began as an “‘invisible college’ of natural philosophers and physicians,” which opened its first meeting in 1660 with a lecture by acclaimed scientist Christopher Wren. Their mission is “to recognise, promote, and support…
May 14, 2021
A paper co-authored by Berkeley EECS Prof. Jeffrey Bokor, his postdoc Yuxuan Lin, Berkeley Physics Prof. Alex Zettl, his postdoc Cong Su, and researchers at MIT, among others, describes a more efficient method of connecting atomically thin 2-D materials to other chip elements, making them a more promising alternative to…
May 12, 2021
EECS alumna and current Master’s student Gloria Tumushabe (B.S. ’20) is the subject of an article in the Spring 2021 Berkeley Engineer titled “Cultivating female coders in Africa.” During the COVID pandemic shutdown, Tumushabe developed a program called Afro Fem Coders to allow her to remotely teach computer programming to…
May 12, 2021
EECS alumnus and Associate Teaching Prof. John DeNero (CS Ph.D. ’10, advisor: Dan Klein) has been named the new Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). DeNero earned a B.S. in Mathematical & Computational Science and Symbolic Systems, and an M.A.
May 12, 2021
The Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) has thrown a spotlight on UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) and its leadership. In “A Conversation with Michael V. Drake and Jennifer Chayes” HDSR takes a comprehensive look at data science at Berkeley from a variety of perspectives. UC…
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…