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…
April 20, 2021
EECS alumnus Yang You (Ph.D. ’20, advisor: James Demmel) has been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 Asia list for Healthcare and Science. Yang, who is now a Presidential Young Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, studies Machine Learning, Parallel/Distributed Algorithms, and High-Performance Computing. The…
April 19, 2021
EE alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Richard White), who is the founder and CTO of the Arctic Ice Project and an adjunct lecturer at Sanford, will be a co-panelist in a webinar titled “Reflections on Arctic Ice: A special webinar with Dr. Peter Wadhams.” Wadhams, a professor emeritus…
April 19, 2021
CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe is co-chairing the inaugural ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21) in October 2021. This conference will highlight work where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, can help improve equity and…