June 26, 2018
German conglomerate Siemens announced it will acquire Comfy, an Oakland-based startup co-founded in 2012 by two CS alumni, Andrew Krioukov (M.S. ’13) and Stephen Dawson-Haggerty (Ph.D. ’14). Both students were advised by David Culler. Comfy (formerly named Building Robotics) is an end-to-end solution utilizing sensors and smart technology to control…
June 25, 2018
Prof. Joseph Hellerstein is one of the principal investigators of a research team who are developing innovative machine learning tools to pull contextual information from scientific datasets and automatically generate metadata tags for each file. Scientists can then search these files via a web-based search engine for scientific data, called…
June 19, 2018
Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu has been selected as the new Dean of the College of Engineering. King Liu served as Associate Dean for Research in the College from 2008-12, Chair of the EECS department from 2014-16, and Vice Provost for Academic and Space Planning on the Berkeley campus from 2016-18. She…
June 18, 2018
Two CS alumni, Soumen Chakrabarti (Ph.D. ’96, advisor: Katherine Yelick) and Sunita Sarawagi (Ph.D. ’96, advisor: Michael Stonebraker), both currently CSE professors at IIT Bombay, have made the 2018 list of Analytics India Magazine’s Top 10 Machine Learning Researchers in India. Chakrabarti’s research interests include better embedding representation for passages,…
June 15, 2018
EE/CS Prof. and alumna Bin Yu (M.S. ’87/Ph.D. ’90) has won the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) 2018 Elizabeth L. Scott Award. This award is granted to an individual who has helped foster opportunities in statistics for women, exemplifying the spirit of mathematician and statistician Elizabeth L. Scott.
June 14, 2018
CS Assistant Prof. Joey Gonzalez has won a 2018 Okawa Research Foundation Grant. Okawa Research Grants are bestowed for “studies and analyses in the fields of information and telecommunications.” Gonzalez’s research interests are at the intersection of machine learning and data systems. The award will be presented in San Francisco…
June 14, 2018
CS Division staffer Michael-David Sasson has been selected to serve on the Chancellor’s Staff Advisory Committee (CSAC), which advises the Chancellor and her cabinet on a wide range of issues relating to staff. Up to sixteen Berkeley staff members are appointed by the Chancellor to serve for a term of…
June 13, 2018
2016 EE Distinguished Alumnus Jyuo-Min Shyu (Ph.D. ’88) has been named a non-Executive Director of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a “leading global semiconductor foundry that provides advanced IC production for applications spanning all major sectors of the electronics industry.” Shyu, who is currently a professor of computer science at National…
June 8, 2018
Alumna Margaret Yau (B.S. EECS ’04) has been named a 2017-18 Professor of the Year by Crafton Hills College, a community college in Yucaipa, California. She was part of the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) from 2002-4, won a Jim and Donna Gray scholarship in 2003, and became a CRA…
June 7, 2018
EECS undergraduate Tiffany Perumpail has won a Teaching Effectiveness Award (TEA) from the UC Berkeley Graduate Division. This very competitive award is bestowed annually by the Graduate Council’s Faculty Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs. Applicants submit essays in which they identify a problem they encountered in teaching, explain their strategy…