April 15, 2021
EECS graduate student Andreea Bobu (advisor: Anca Dragan) has been named a 2021 Apple Scholar in AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML). The scholarship was created by Apple to “celebrate the contributions of students pursuing cutting-edge fundamental and applied machine learning research worldwide.” Bobu’s research interests lie at the intersection of…
April 6, 2021
EECS graduate student Wenshuo Guo (advisor: Michael I. Jordan) has won a 2021 Google PhD Fellowship in Algorithms, Optimization and Markets. This award acknowledges and supports exemplary PhD students in computer science and related fields who are making contributions to their areas of specialty. Guo studies robustness guarantees in algorithms…
April 6, 2021
CS Prof. Michael I. Jordan is the subject of an IEEE Spectrum article which describes his life, research, and philosophy. A computer science pioneer, Jordan blended CS, statistics, and applied mathematics, to help transform unsupervised machine learning into a powerful algorithmic tool for solving problems in fields like natural language…
April 5, 2021
CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe is the subject of a profile in Quanta Magazine which describes how she uses the tools of theoretical computer science to understand pressing social problems — and try to fix them. Abebe, who is from Ethiopia, earned a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard, attended a…
April 1, 2021
CS Prof. Joseph Hellerstein has been named a Datanami 2021 Person to Watch. Hellerstein is the chief strategy officer and one of the co-founders a Trifacta, a company which markets data preparation and interaction technology based on Data Wrangler, a data transformation and discovery tool he developed in the RISELab…
March 31, 2021
CS Associate Prof. Nir Yosef has joined with colleagues in Bioengineering to write an algorithm called totalVI that uses deep learning to integrate gene and protein data about single cells, and which will allow collaborative experiments to be more accurate and efficient. TotalVI will help to manage, analyze, and distribute gene…
March 31, 2021
CS alumnae Maryann Simmons (B.A. / M.S./ Ph.D. ’01, advisor: Carlo Séquin) and Hayley Iben (M.S. ’05/Ph.D. ’07, advisor: James O’Brien) have won 2020 Technical Achievement Awards (SciTech Oscars) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for hair simulation systems. Simmons is now a senior staff software engineer and…
March 10, 2021
EECS Prof. Boubacar Kanté and his team have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. They demonstrated the emission of discrete twisting laser beams from antennas made up of concentric rings roughly equal to the diameter of…
March 8, 2021
In an effort to facilitate the conversation about diversity and inclusion in the field of EECS, undergraduate students Neha Hudait and Prachi Deo have put together a web page and calendar of events for March 2021 and beyond. The web page will feature a series of profiles, the…
March 1, 2021
CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe will be moderating a problem solving session at the 2021 NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Mechanism Design for Vulnerable Populations.” Abebe’s session will be designed to help academics understand the challenges facing refugees and practitioners working on refugee issues globally,…