EECS Prof. Benjamin Recht is quoted in a Simon’s Foundation Quanta Magazine article titled “ The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come”. Scientific data sets are becoming more dynamic, requiring new mathematical techniques on par with the invention of calculus.
October 4

Katalin Voros, Operations Manager of the Microlab, has retired this past June, after 30 years with the Department. Upon retirement she received the title R&D Engineering Manager Emerita. Katalin documented the activities of the Microlab, now the Marvell Nanolab, in Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2013-158, History of the UC Berkeley Microlab.
September 12

EECS graduate student Juan Pablo Duarte has received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD) for the paper "Unified FinFET Compact Model: Modelling Trapezoidal Triple-Gate FinFETs". His co-authors are Navid Paydavosi, Sriramkumar Venugopalan, Angada Sachid and Prof. Chenming Hu, all of EECS department, UC Berkeley.
September 9

EECS graduate students Derrick Cheng, Cheng-yu Hong and Stephanie Rogers have been named recipients of the 2014 Siebel Scholars awards. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, bioengineering, and computer science. Today, nearly 870 Siebel Scholars are active in a program that nurtures leadership, academic achievement, and the collaborative search for solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. More>>
September 5

Project “ Rangzen”, led by EECS graduate student Yahel Ben-David and advisor Prof. Eric Brewer were featured in a SF Chronicle article titled “ Helping dissenters evade foreign eavesdropping”. “Rangzen” is a project of the the TIER (Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions) research group led by Prof. Eric Brewer and co-advised by Prof. Scott Shenker.
August 29

The article "Low-cost coarse airborne particulate matter sensing for indoor occupancy detection", by students Kevin Weekly, Donghyun Kim, and Lin Zhang (visiting scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), led by Professors Alexandre Bayen, William Nazaroff, and Costas Spanos won the QSI Best Application Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). The work presented in this article proposes to use a low-cost sensor to infer the local movement of occupants in a corridor by sensing the resuspension of coarse particles. The award was presented to EECS PhD student Kevin Weekly at the CASE Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
August 29

The Computer Science division at UC Berkeley has been named the best college for computer science majors by AC Online, an organization that lists comprehensive college rankings focused on affordability, value, and best ROI (return on investment).
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August 28

Pieter Abbeel has been named a recipient of the 2013 DARPA Young Faculty Award. The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process. Prof. Abbeel was selected for his work on "Supervised Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation".
August 27

EECS grad student Kurt Thomas and Prof. Vern Paxson were featured in a Boing Boing article titled “ Where Twitter spam-accounts come from”. After buying $5,000 worth of fake Twitter accounts they developed a template for identifying spam Twitter accounts. Their paper, “ Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse” was presented at the 2013 Usenix Security Symposium.
August 23

Richard S. Muller and Richard White have received the 2013 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award. This award was given in recognition of their pioneering innovation and leadership in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and was presented by his Royal Highness Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Consort of Queen Elizabeth. (Photograph by Gary Doak: with permission of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) More>>
August 21

Silicon BioDevices, an EECS spin-out led by Dr. Octavian Florescu (PhD, EE, 2010) is a finalist for the Nokia Sensing XChallenge. The Sensing XChallenge is two separate and consecutive competitions to advance innovative sensing technologies that capture meaningful data about a consumer’s health and surrounding environment. The advancements in sensing technology resulting from this competition will help lay the foundation for a mobile health revolution that transforms healthcare into a system that is highly personalized, instantly accessible and relevant to the medical needs of each individual. More>>
August 15

Kam Lau has been selected to receive the 2013 Aerospace Electronics Systems Society (AESS) Pioneer Award. This award is given annually to an individual or team for “contributions significant to bringing into being systems that are still in existence today.” Prof. Lau is receiving this award in recognition of his pioneering contribution to fiber optic transfer.
August 15