December 13, 2017
CS alumnus Harold Pimentel (Ph.D. ’16, advisor: Lior Pachter), now a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, has been chosen as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellow. The goal of the fellows program is to “recruit and retain individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups…
December 13, 2017
In response to the video Slaughterbots, created by Prof. Stuart Russell and Autonomousweapons.org, San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa has introduced a resolution to ban autonomous weapons. If the resolution is adopted, San Mateo County would be the first in the United States to urge Congress and the United Nations…
December 13, 2017
Prof. Murat Arcak, alumnus Samuel Coogan (M.S. ’12/Ph.D. ’15), and their co-authors on the paper titled “Traffic network control from temporal logic specifications,” have won the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award. The award is presented annually by the IEEE Control Systems Society to recognize…
December 13, 2017
EECS Center for Student Affairs (CSA) undergraduate advisers Cindy Conners, Charlene Duncan, Carol Marshall, Andrea Mejia Valencia, Nicole McIntyre, Lydia Raya, Michael-David Sasson, and Lily Zhang, have won the UC Berkeley Excellence in Advising 2017 Team Award. The team award recognizes exceptional performance and innovation in advising on campus and…
December 12, 2017
Profs. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Eli Yablonovitch have been named 2017 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Fellowships are awarded to those who “have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic…
December 11, 2017
Incoming EECS faculty Yi Ma and Shafi Goldwasser have been named 2017 Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). “To be selected as a Fellow is to join our most renowned member grade and an elite group that represents less than 1 percent of ACM’s overall membership,” explains ACM President…
December 11, 2017
When Dan Garcia first attended UC Berkeley as a graduate student, he was amazed at the many different faces and key spaces that make up the world’s top…
December 6, 2017
United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Prof. Randy Katz (also alumnus, Ph.D. ’80) has been appointed Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley. Katz helped pioneer many technologies that are ubiquitous today, like wide-area wireless networks for mobile devices, cloud-based applications and cloud storage, and ways of managing and protecting computer networks. …
December 5, 2017
Prof. Sergey Levine and grad students Chelsea Finn and Frederik Ebert have developed a robotic learning technology called visual foresight that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before. “This can enable intelligent planning of highly…
December 4, 2017
Prof. Ron Fearing, grad student Justin Yim, and the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab are featured in a New Straits Times article titled “Designs from nature,” which explores the ways that lab scientists apply observations of animals in an attempt to mimic their motions over land, air and underwater to propel revolutionary…