Randy Katz has won the 2010 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal. This medal is presented annually for a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest of IEEE. Professor Katz has been chosen for his excellence in teaching and ability to inspire students, leadership in engineering education through publication of course materials and writings on engineering education, leadership in the development of programs in curricula or teaching methodology, contributions to the engineering profession through research, engineering achievements, and technical papers, and participating in the education activities of professional societies.
November 24
EECS graduate students Seth Fowler and Leo Meyerovich are the winners of one of two 2009 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships. The Fellowship competition asked for research proposals developed by teams of two graduate students from UC Berkeley and Stanford. Their proposal, “Parallel Web Browser for Mobile Devices” was selected among 23 Berkeley submissions. The two winning teams are awarded a $100,000 fellowship for submitting the most innovative ideas.
November 19
Michel Maharbiz’ research on developing MEMS devices for implantation into insects has been selected as one of “The 50 Best Inventions of 2009” by Time magazine. Armed with funding from the Pentagon's research wing, the engineering team has devised a method of remotely controlling the flight of beetles. By attaching radio antennas and embedding electrodes in the insects' optic lobes, flight muscles and brains, they can manipulate their subjects into taking off, hovering in midair and turning on command.
November 16
A new research center based at UC Berkeley headed by Endowed Chair and Professor Jan Rabaey will create a comprehensive and systematic solution to the distributed multi-scale system design challenge. Named MuSyc (MultiScale Systems Center), its grand challenge is the development of “energy-smart” distributed systems—systems that are deeply aware of the balance between energy availability and demand, and adjust their behavior in response through dynamic and adaptive optimization through all scales of design hierarchy. This center will be a part of the Semiconductor Research Corp. Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) bringing together leading national universities to advance semiconductor and systems industry research.
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November 9
EECS undergrads Adam Liu, Richard Mar, Thien Nguyen, and Bing Xia are part of a team of students who won "Best Software Tool" and a gold medal for the second year in a row at the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM). Students from all over the world gather at MIT to present projects which build biological systems and operate them in living cells. The team’s instructor is EECS Ph.D. grad and post doc Douglas Densmore and was sponsored in part the Center for Hybrid Embedded Systems Software (CHESS).
November 4
EECS graduate student Jike Chong is the recipient an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship, supported by the Intel Corp. This is a highly competitive program where students must be selected by the university to apply and then are reviewed and handpicked by the Intel Fellows and their designees. The award covers tuition, stipend, connection with an Intel technical leader working in the student’s area of study and a travel grant to meet their Intel technical leader. Jike’s current research interest is the exploitation of communication and computation pattern across application domains to efficiently map concurrent applications onto parallel platforms, his research advisor is Prof. Kurt Keutzer.
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October 19
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