March 21, 2024
Mind-blowing science: ‘Star Wars-style’ holograms to communicate with the brain
CZ Biohub: UC Berkeley scientists are taking brain-machine interfaces to a new level with support from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco.
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March 20, 2024
Berkeley alumna Tandy Warnow wins ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award
Berkeley Math alumna Tandy Warnow (Ph.D. ’91) has won the International Society for Computational Biology’s Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award. The annual award recognizes a member of the computational biology community, more than two decades post-degree, who has made major contributions to the field. Warnow is currently a professor, and the…
March 19, 2024
Jack Welch, pioneer in molecular radio astronomy, dies
EECS and Astronomy Professor Emeritus William “Jack” Welch died on March 10, 2024. He was 90. Welch was a pioneer in molecular radio astronomy, who together with Charles Townes used a radio telescope to make the first detections of ammonia and water in interstellar space. This…
March 18, 2024
Boubacar Kante wins Bakar Prize
EE Professor Boubacar Kante has won the 2024 Bakar Prize. The prize is given annually to former Bakar Fellows and provides additional resources to ensure a successful transition of their technology from academic research to industry applications. Now in its 12th year, the Bakar Fellows Programs has supported 74 Faculty…
March 12, 2024
Björn Hartmann elected to SIGCHI Academy
EECS Associate Professor Björn Hartmann has been elected to the Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Academy. The SIGCHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to shaping the field of human-computer interaction. Hartmann co-founded the CITRIS Invention Lab in 2012 and previously…
March 11, 2024
Lisa Yan receives Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs
EECS Assistant Teaching Professor Lisa Yan has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs. The annual award recognizes faculty members who have provided outstanding pedagogical mentorship to GSIs. The award is sponsored by the Graduate Council’s Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs and…
March 8, 2024
Berkeley experts urge high schools to offer advanced math in line with UC report
An advanced math curriculum in high school is essential for preparing California students for science and technology majors in college, University of California, Berkeley experts wrote in a recent EdSource op-ed.
March 5, 2024
Natacha Crooks wins IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award
CS Assistant Professor Natacha Crooks has won the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering Rising Star Award. Crooks was cited “for contributions to distributed data management, and its applications to blockchain technology, security, and cloud computing.” The award will be presented at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering,…
March 4, 2024
Nika Haghtalab named Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 Early Career Fellow
CS Assistant Professor Nika Haghtalab is among three UC Berkeley faculty members named to Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Haghtalab, along with Statistics and CS Assistant Professor Jacob Steinhardt and incoming Statistics Assistant Professor Amanda Coston are among this year’s 19-person group. Each will receive up to $300,000 over…
February 26, 2024
Three EECS professors win IEEE SSCS Innovative Education Award
EECS Professors Kris Pister, Borivoje Nikolic, and Ali Niknejad have won the IEEE SSCS Innovative Education Award for their pioneering efforts in the creation of an integrated circuit ‘tapeout’ course. The instructors took a cohort of largely undergraduate students from the design phase of a chip to its manufacture all…