May 3, 2018
CS alumna Kristin Stephens-Martinez (M.S. ’13/Ph.D. ’17 advisors: Vern Paxson/Armando Fox) is a new Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Her research interests lie at the intersection of education and computer science, focusing on using data available in…
May 2, 2018
EE and CS Associate Prof. Laura Waller was interviewed by Computer Vision News in advance of her keynote address to the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) in April. She describes the appeal of working at the intersection of two fields: design of optical systems and computational algorithms. She…
May 2, 2018
Prof. Scott Shenker has been named the 2017 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award recipient. The award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. Shenker is honored for pioneering contributions to fair queueing in packet-switching networks, which had…
May 2, 2018
Three EECS professors are featured speakers at the upcoming TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics on May 11 at Zellerbach Hall. The single-day event will focus on the crossroads of the latest AI and robotics technology and the startup ecosystem. Prof. Pieter Abbeel, who works in machine learning and robotics (and who co-founded …
May 2, 2018
EE alumnus Ram Vasudevan (B.S. ’06/M.S. ’09/Ph.D. ’12) is the recipient of a 2018 Young Investigator award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Vasudevan is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. He was chosen for the proposal “Real-Time Certified, Safe Control Synthesis for Autonomous…
May 2, 2018
CS alumnus Brighten Godfrey (Ph.D. ’09), who is the co-founder and CTO of Veriflow, will speak at the upcoming Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Spring 2018 conference on May 9. His session, “Intent-based Network Verification: Practical Use Cases,” will demonstrate how the Veriflow Continuous Network Verification platform provides network assurance…
May 1, 2018
CS alumna Mary Ann Horton (Ph.D. ’81) is the subject of a Daily Beast article titled “How Mary Ann Horton Invented the Email Attachment, Then Revolutionized Trans Rights.” As a student, Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, and created the first email attachment…
May 1, 2018
The research of Associate Prof. Laura Waller is highlighted in a Berkeley News article titled “Editing brain activity with holography.” Waller is co-author of a paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience that describes a holographic brain modulator which can activate up to 50 neurons at once in a three-dimensional…
May 1, 2018
Prof. and alumnus Umesh Vazirani (Ph.D. ’86) and alumnus Sanjeev Arora (Ph.D. ’94) have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Membership is awarded in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research. Vazirani is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of EECS and the co-director of…
April 27, 2018
Prof. Alexandre Bayen has won the 2018 Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TC-CPS) Mid-Career Award. This award recognizes a mid-career researcher from either academia or industry who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to the field of cyber-physical system (CPS) in his/her career development. CPS…