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…
December 1, 2017
EECS alumnus and civil rights leader Harlan Yu (B.S. ’04) is appealing to CS departments to show students how they can “pull on various levers of policy” to keep the public protected. Yu, who is now the Executive Director of a non-profit tech-policy consulting group called Upturn, is the focus…
December 1, 2017
Math and L&S CS major Sameera Vemulapalli has been named Runner-up for the 2018 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman. The Schafer Prize is awarded annually by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to the most outstanding woman mathematics undergraduate in the United…
November 29, 2017
EECS alumnus Keshab Parhi (Ph.D. ’88) has been named a 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow in recognition of his contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership and extraordinary achievements across disciplines. He is currently the Edgar F. Johnson Professor of Electronic Communication and a Distinguished…
November 29, 2017
EECS Master’s student Allen Tang (also alumnus, B.A. CS/Statistics/ORMS) and his Berkeley teammates have won the Data Open Championship at the New York Stock Exchange. The winners receive a $100,000 cash prize and possible job interviews with Citadel, a Chicago-based hedge fund firm. The competition was comprised of 20 one-day…
November 27, 2017
Prof. Ana Claudia Arias, Prof. Miki Lustig, and graduate student Joseph Corea, are featured in a STAT article titled “Electronics ‘like a second skin’ make wearables more practical and MRIs safer for kids.” The team is using printers loaded with a variety of high-tech inks (liquid silver nanoparticles, carbon…
November 27, 2017
Prof. Doug Tygar and his CS 194 Cybewar class are the focus of a New Yorker article titled “At Berkeley, a New Generation of “Ethical Hackers” Learns to Wage Cyberwar.” The students have teamed up with the white hat hackers at HackerOne, a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. …