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Lee Julian Purnell (1896-1983), Berkeley’s earliest known Black EE student

February 21, 2022 by Magdalene L. Crowley

Lee Julian Purnell is the first Black student known to have graduated from the EECS department. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, graduated from Berkeley High in 1915, earned a B.A. from Cal in 1919, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1921, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Berkeley in 1929. He settled into a career at Howard University where he eventually became Dean of Engineering.

Filed Under: Alumni, Black History, History

UC Berkeley Announces Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence for Deep Learning

October 22, 2021 by Magdalene L. Crowley

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley, is happy to announce the launch of the Center for Energy Efficient Deep Learning (CEEDL), a new Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence (CoE). This center will focus on producing energy-efficient algorithms and implementations for deep learning’s most computationally-intensive workloads. As […]

Filed Under: Faculty, Research

The 2021 EECS Distinguished Alumni

March 16, 2021 by Magdalene L. Crowley

Berkeley EECS has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize the valuable contributions of its most distinguished alumni. The 2021 Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS) on February 11, 2021. Electrical Engineering Hsing Kung Ph.D. 1975, advisor: William OldhamManaging Partner of Acorn Campus Ventures For the foundation of […]

Filed Under: Alumni, People

Graduate Spotlight: Xinyun Chen

March 8, 2021 by Neha Hudait

We are thrilled to spotlight Xinyun Chen, an EECS PhD student under Professor Dawn Song. We had the opportunity to interview her about her research and advice for undergraduate students. Here’s what she had to say! Tell us about your research? My research lies at the intersection of deep learning, programming languages, and security. Specifically, […]

Filed Under: Current WHM, Diversity, People, Students, Women's History

Welcome to EECS Women’s History Month!

March 8, 2021 by Neha Hudait

Happy March and welcome to Berkeley EECS Women’s History Month (EECS WHM)! EECS WHM is a celebration held during Women’s History Month to recognize women, both past and present, in the fields of electrical engineering (EE) and computer science (CS). The goal of EECS WHM is to facilitate the conversation about diversity and inclusion in the field through a series of newsletter articles and […]

Filed Under: Current WHM, Diversity, Women's History

Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering: A Network of Our Own

September 1, 2020 by Sheila M. HUMPHREYS

Since the late 1970s, WICSE has pursued the goal of increasing the number of women in those disciplines and supporting their academic progress. WICSE has become a permanent force in EECS, and, indeed, is the first such group in an American university with a disciplinary focus on computer science or electrical engineering. Since then, women’s groups have been created in most computing departments. The establishment of WICSE created peer support and a strong voice for women graduate students, and the faculty has relied on WICSE to monitor the climate for women ever since.

Filed Under: Alumni, Current WHM, Diversity, History, People, Students, Women's History

Hopper-Dean Foundation gift of $2M bolsters EECS diversity initiatives

November 18, 2019 by Susanne Kauer

Two freshmen students hudding around a laptop screen laughing.

The Hopper-Dean Foundation has awarded $2 million over two years to UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) in support of diversity initiatives in computer science. The new funds build upon a generous $1 million gift from the foundation in 2016, which included support of pilot diversity programs developed in the department. […]

Filed Under: Diversity

Latinx Heritage Month: Prof. Dan Garcia

October 4, 2019 by Magdalene L. Crowley

I grew up as a “Nuyorican” kid in the Woodlawn Reservoir neighborhood of The Bronx. My dad’s parents were from the Eastern side of Puerto Rico (Ceiba and Fajardo), and both came over in the great Puerto Rican migration to NYC in the 1930s. My Abuela saw the Hindenburg fly overhead! My dad was born […]

Filed Under: Diversity, Faculty, History, Latinx Heritage

Latinx Heritage Month: Prof. Armando Fox

September 27, 2019 by Magdalene L. Crowley

I was born and raised in New York City.  Both my parents are from Cuba and fled as political refugees after the Castro government took power. At that time, professionals were simply not allowed to leave the country, but my parents couldn’t live in an unfree society, so they applied for and were awarded one-year […]

Filed Under: Diversity, Faculty, History, Latinx Heritage

Latinx Heritage Month: Prof. Emeritus Edward Ashford Lee

September 25, 2019 by Magdalene L. Crowley

I was born and grew up in Santurce, a region of San Juan, Puerto Rico. My mom was from Kentucky, my dad from Puerto Rico. My dad was a descendant of some notable Puerto Ricans, particularly the poet and playwright Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, after whom a theater in San Juan is named, Bailey K. […]

Filed Under: Diversity, Faculty, History, Latinx Heritage

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