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,…
March 1, 2021
EECS Associate Prof. Boubacar Kanté and his research 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…
February 24, 2021
CS alumna Anne-Louise Guichard Radimsky (M.S. ’67/Ph.D. 1973, advisor: Philip Spira), one of the first women to earn an EECS doctorate from Berkeley, died in July 2020 at the age of 79. She was born in France during WWII and earned a B.S. in systems theory with a specialization in avionics…
February 23, 2021
EECS Assistant Profs. Alvin Cheung and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley are among 18 winners of Intel’s 2020 Outstanding Research Awards (ORA). These awards recognize exceptional contributions made through Intel university-sponsored research. Cheung and Ragan-Kelley are developing ARION, a system for compiling programs onto heterogeneous platforms. The team will use verified lifting, which…
February 19, 2021
Anca Dragan has won the 2021 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award – Academic “For pioneering algorithmic human-robot interaction.“ This award is bestowed on current members of IEEE who are in the early stage of their career, and who have made an identifiable contribution or contributions which have…
February 19, 2021
Three amazing EECS alumnae are featured on the Berkeley 150W website in celebration of Black History Month: Arlene Cole-Rhodes (Ph.D. ’89, advisor: Shankar Sastry), the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Berkeley; Melody Ivory (M.S. ’96/Ph.D. ’01, advisor: Marti Hearst), the first Black woman…
February 17, 2021
CS alumnus Scott Aaronson (Ph.D. ’04, advisor: Umesh Vazirani) ranked #4, Prof. Emeritus Manuel Blum ranked #11, alumna and Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (M.S. ’81/Ph.D. ’84, advisor: Manuel Blum) ranked #12, and Prof. Stuart Russell ranked #14 on Academic Influence’s list of the Top Influential Computer Scientists from 2010 to 2020. …
February 16, 2021
Databricks, a cloud startup founded by CS Adjunct Assistant Prof. Ali Ghodsi, CS Prof. Scott Shenker, CS Prof. Ion Stoica, and alumni Andrew Konwinski (M.S. ’09/Ph.D. 12, advisor: Randy Katz), Reynold Xin (Ph.D. ’13, advisor: Ion Stoica), Patrick Wendell (M.S. ’13, advisor: Ion Stoica), and Matei Zaharia (Ph.D. ’13, advisors:…