April 23, 2018
CS Prof. Hany Farid is leaving Dartmouth, where he taught for 20 years, to take up a faculty position in the EECS department. Farid specializes in digital forensics and image analysis. Some of his most well-known projects have applied computer science to test whether images have been doctored, using his…
April 23, 2018
CS Prof. Eric Paulos and his graduate students in the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, Sarah Sterman, Molly Nicholas, and Christine Dierk, have created a prototype of a wearable color- and shape-changing braid called HäirIÖ. The hair extension is built from a custom circuit, an Arduino Nano, an Adafruit Bluetooth board, shape memory alloy,…
April 19, 2018
A new Data Science major in the College of Letters and Science has been approved, effective Fall 2018. This is part of Berkeley’s active engagement with the burgeoning field of data science, which has the potential to shape numerous fields of study and practice. The major is designed to equip students…
April 19, 2018
2018 EE Distinguished Alumna Andrea Goldsmith (B.A. ’86/M.S. ’91/Ph.D. ’94) has been named the 2018-19 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Athena Lecturer for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive wireless communications, and for the successful transfer of research to commercial technology. Goldsmith, who is currently the Stephen Harris…
April 19, 2018
In an Op-Ed piece for Medium, CS and Statistics Prof. Michael Jordan examines the limits of AI and argues for the creation of an engineering discipline encompassing data science, intelligent infrastructure (II), and intelligence augmentation (IA). Principles of analysis and design must be applied when building planetary-scale inference-and-decision-making systems…
April 18, 2018
EECS Chair Prof. James Demmel (Ph.D. ’83) and CS Prof. Emeritus Eric Brewer (B.S. ’89) have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States and serves the nation as a champion of scholarship, civil dialogue…
April 17, 2018
EECS graduate student Michael Laskey (advisor: Ken Goldberg) is interviewed by Audrow Nash for a Robohub podcast titled “DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning.” Laskey works in the AUTOLAB where he develops new algorithms for Deep Learning of robust robot control policies and examines how to reliably apply recent…
April 17, 2018
EECS alumna Lea Kissner (B.S. ’02) is the subject of a Gizmodo article describing her visit to a class at Berkeley this week where she discussed her job as a Principal Engineer at Google leading the security and privacy teams for infrastructure and social products. One team of 90 employees…
April 17, 2018
CS graduate student Allan Jabri has been named a 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. Soros Fellowships are awarded to outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants from across the globe who are pursuing graduate school in the United States. Recipients are chosen for their potential to make significant contributions to…
April 16, 2018
EECS instructional system administrator Linda Huang (who publishes under the name Yang Huang) has just released her second book, a collection of short stories titled “My Old Faithful: Stories” (University of Massachusetts Press). The ten interconnected stories, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year…