May 14, 2018
Graduating CS senior Luke Strgar thinks he might have a solution for the fraught issue of guns in America: Use blockchain to track gun sales. Strgar thinks that Blockchain offers the perfect balance between security, anonymity and scale that could please people on all sides of the gun-control debate. He…
May 11, 2018
SiFive, a fabless provider of customized semiconductors built on research by alumnus Yunsup Lee (MS ’11/Ph.D. ’16), alumnus Andrew Waterman (M.S. ’11/Ph.D. ’16), and Prof. Krste Asanović, received $50.6M in series C funding in April. Lee is Chief Technology Officer, Waterman is Chief Engineer, and Asanović is Chief Architect at…
May 11, 2018
CS alumnus Tony DeRose (Ph.D. ’85), currently a senior scientist and lead researcher at Pixar, will speak at Indiana University on Saturday for a STEAM event sponsored by Blk Shp, a “loose guild” of socially conscious innovators. DeRose works with a Young Makers Program that supports youth in “building ambitious,…
May 11, 2018
CS graduate student Nicholas Carlini is featured in a New York Times article titled “Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t.” He and his advisor, David Wagner, have published a paper showing they can embed audio instructions, undectable by human beings, directly into recordings of music or…
May 10, 2018
Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller is featured in an Institution of Mechanical Engineers” article titled “This machine can read your mind – engineers unlock secrets of the brain.” The article explores some of the newest breakthroughs in brain-machine interfaces, and some of the obstacles encountered by researchers. Muller, a co-founder of…
May 9, 2018
Graduating CS senior Jacque Garcia, the president of Cal Boxing, is the focus of a Berkeley News article titled “Longtime fighter graduates as a champion.” Garcia, who grew up in Compton and is known for her “mental toughness, determination, dedication and positive attitude,” won the 2018 132-pound National Collegiate Boxing…
May 7, 2018
Three EECS students are in the top two teams which won the U.S. Imagine Cup Finals in San Francisco this week. In the three-day event, sponsored by Microsoft, competing teams from across the United States presented and demoed their tech projects to a panel of VIP judges. Will Huang (EECS…
May 7, 2018
EECS alumnus Alex Stamos (B.S. ’01), currently the Chief Security Officer at Facebook, will be the featured speaker on May 10 at the 2018 Robert Kahn & Patrice Lyons Lecture, hosted by the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY). The title of his…
May 7, 2018
EE alumnus Leonard Shtargot (B.S. ’01) has been awarded the title of Analog Devices Fellow, a distinguished technical position given to engineers who “contribute significantly to the company’s success through exceptional innovation, leadership and an unparalleled ability to unite and mentor others.” Shtargot joined Linear Technology after graduation and is…
May 3, 2018
EE alumnus and retired Air Force general Donald J. Hoffman (M.S. ’75) was interviewed by the Midwest Energy News for an article titled “Q&A: Retired Air Force general on the need to diversify fuel sources.” Hoffman spent 42 years in the military as a pilot and manager of Air Force…