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:…
February 16, 2021
EE Prof. Laura Waller has been elected a Fellow of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE Fellows represent the top 2 percent of the most accomplished academic, industrial, clinical and governmental leaders in the fields of medical and biological engineering in the country. Waller was cited…
February 16, 2021
EE Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller has won the 2021 the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SCSS) New Frontier Award. This award recognizes and honors SSCS members in their early career who are exploring innovative and visionary technical work within the field of solid-state circuits. The award aims to emphasize pioneering developments…
February 16, 2021
EECS Assistant Prof. Alessandro Chiesa has been selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science. Awarded annually since 1955, the Sloan fellowships honor “the most promising scientific researchers working today…extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of…