Graduating senior Daniel A. Price, a double major in electrical engineering and computer sciences and bioengineering with a minor in physics, was selected as one of this year’s Rhodes Scholars. Rhodes Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, but for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead. Daniel has done research in medical robotics at Johns Hopkins, and at Berkeley to develop a new imaging modality known as magnetic particle imaging. He aspires to a career applying his interests in medical devices and medical robotics to address global health care needs. At Oxford, he plans to do a M.Sc. in bioengineering
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May 8
Berkeley EECS & LSCS students have swept Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards 2013! EECS student Zhengyuan Zhou won the National Award and Frank Ong won the CRA Runner-Up award. Zhengyuan’s research contributed an elegant solution to a differential game theory problem and as a result he directly contributed to 9 papers in the past 2 years. Frank Ong’s work in using “wavelets” to reduce noise in flow MRI procedures is being piloted by several bay area hospitals.
May 7
EECS undergraduate students Amy Pavel (advisor Björn Hartmann) and Stephanie Rogers (advisors Dawn Song and David Wagner) have been selected Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Female) 2013. It is quite an honor to be selected for Honorable Mention from this group. Stephanie Rogers' project was the use of machine learning to authenticate users based on personal touchscreen strokes. Amy Pavel’s research used machine learning techniques for automatic extraction of HTML tutorials and then built UI to browse and compare these tutorials based on extracted command structure.
May 7
Eli Yablonovitch has been elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Each year, only 8 new Foreign Members are selected from among persons of the greatest eminence for their scientific discoveries and attainments. At the Induction Ceremony in July, Eli will sign the very same parchment book that Newton, Maxwell and all other Fellows have signed since the beginning of the Society over 350 years ago.
May 7
Connie Chang-Hasnain has been selected to receive an Outstanding Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, which recognizes world-renowned researchers of Chinese descent working in the fields of electronics, information technology. The award trophy and $17K prize will be presented to her on June 2 in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
May 2
EECS Students Owen Lu, Steven Rhodes, and Eugene Fang have done it again! After winning the West Coast Freescale Cup Championship the students flew to Pittsburgh, PA where they once again beat the competition and took first place at the National Freescale Cup. Freescale will be flying the students to Harbin China in August to represent the US at the World Freescale Cup. The Freescale Cup is an autonomous line following race car challenge sponsored by Freescale Semiconductor. EECS students at Berkeley participate through the EE192 Mechatronics course taught by Igor Paprotny.
April 30
Jitendra Malik and
Bin Yu have been elected members to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2013. Election to the Academy honors individual accomplishment and calls upon members to serve the public good. Members contribute to Academy publications and studies of science and technology policy, energy and global security, social policy and American institutions, and the humanities, arts, and education.
April 25
The team led by Prof.
Alexandre Bayen and Prof. Horowitz was recently featured on the Discovery channel (
view video). The Connected Corridor (
traffic.berkeley.edu) project was part of a segment which features the next steps of the project, moving from traffic information to traffic management. The segment shows the research done in the group of Professor Bayen, with his students, as well as some of the findings on some of the data collected. Prof. Bayen’s work on hybrid data for the California Dept. of Transportation was also cited in an article published in the MIT Technology Review titled “
How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements”. And EECS Ph.D. student Walid Krichene (who is part of the Mobile Millennium project) was recently interviewed by
L'Etudiant (in French) about the differences between the US system and the French system when it comes to education.
April 24
A paper written by EECS grad student
Mehdi Maasoumy (co-authors Qi Zhu, Cheng Li, Forrest Meggers and advisor
Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli) titled “Co-design of Control Algorithm and Embedded Platform for HVAC Systems” has been selected the Best Paper in the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems (ICCPS) held in Philadelphia.
April 24
EECS Undergraduate students Eugene Fang, Steven Rhodes and Owen Lu took first place at the West Coast Freescale Cup Championship. The Freescale Cup is an autonomous line following race car challenge through the EE192 Mechatronics course taught by Igor Paprotny. 22 teams raced at UC Davis, representing 3 UC Schools. The students will be heading to Pittsburgh, PA to race in the National Championships. Winners from the national competition will head to China for the World Championship.
April 23
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