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The paper “MIS: A Multiple-Level Logic Optimization System”, coauthored by Robert Brayton, Richard Rudell, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, and Albert Wang has been selected to receive the first ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation by the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation. This award honors a person/persons for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidenced by a paper published at least ten years before the presentation of the award and is based on the impact of the contribution.
June 11
Michel Maharbiz has been awarded the NSF Career Award. This award is given in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Prof. Maharbiz’s research is also featured in a Technology Review Special Report titled “Biological Machines: Michel Maharbiz's novel interfaces between machines and living systems could give rise to a new generation of cyborg devices.”
June 4
EECS professor and Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Kathy Yelick was part of a roundtable conversation with KTVU’s Jon Fowler. Prof. Yelick explains how Green Flash, a radically new computer architecture using the same highly efficient processors found in cell phones and other electronics could lead to supercomputers that are more energy-efficient and more powerful than today's biggest supercomputers.
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May 27
EECS grad students Divya Ramchandran and Ekaterina Gonina (selected as a finalist) have been awarded 2009 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships. Established in 2004, this scholarship honors the legacy of Dr. Borg and her efforts to encourage women to pursue careers in computer science and technology. Since first awarding the scholarship to 8 women in 2004, the Google Anita Borg Scholarship program has expanded to include Anita Borg Scholarship programs for women studying computer science in Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East & North Africa, and New Zealand.
May 26
EECS alumni Costis Daskalakis (Ph.D. ’08) won the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation on "The Complexity of Nash Equilibria" which provides a novel, algorithmic perspective on Game Theory and the concept of the Nash equilibrium. He received this award for advancing our understanding of behavior in complex networks of interacting individuals, such as those enabled and created by the Internet. Costis was supervised by Christos Papadimitriou.
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May 26
EECS grad student Jike Chong is a 2009 recipient of the Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship. This awards two-year fellowships to Ph.D. candidates pursuing leading-edge work in fields related to Intel's business and research interests. Fellowships are available at select U.S. universities, by invitation only, and focus on Ph.D. students who have completed at least one year of study. The fellowship includes a cash award (tuition/fees/stipend), an Intel mentor, and the opportunity to participate in an internship at Intel.
May 22
EECS grad student Bryan Catanzaro was awarded an NVIDIA Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. NVIDIA fellowships recognize and support research worldwide in computing with Graphics Processors. Bryan's research focuses on application frameworks for Computer Vision and Machine Learning, facilitating the use of highly parallel processors such as GPUs in areas other than graphics rendering. Recipients receive funding for their research, an NVIDIA GPU, and the opportunity to work closely with mentors at NVIDIA.
May 22
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