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Magdalene L. Crowley

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

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

Meet the New Berkeley EE Faculty

June 3, 2019 by Magdalene L. Crowley

Two new professors are joining the Electrical Engineering faculty in 2019. Boubacar Kanté Associate Prof. Boubacar Kanté joined the EECS department in January 2019. He had been an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego. His multidisciplinary research interests are in the areas of wave-matter interaction, from microwave […]

Filed Under: Faculty, People

Meet the new Berkeley CS Faculty

May 3, 2019 by Magdalene L. Crowley

Five new professors will join the U.C. Berkeley Computer Science division in July 2019. Alvin Cheung Assistant Prof. Alvin Cheung comes from the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). He was affiliated with the database and programming languages & software engineering research groups, as well as the eScience […]

Filed Under: Faculty, People

2019 EECS WHM Events

February 28, 2019 by Magdalene L. Crowley

WHM Kickoff Event – Succulents and Breakfast 3/1; Research Talks 3/7; JewelrEE Making Social 3/7; Movie Screening – Hidden Figures 3/8; Ice Cream Social 3/13; Lunch and Learn 3/19, Speaker Panel – Women in EECS 3/20

Filed Under: Current WHM

Reintroducing Joseph Thomas Gier

February 22, 2019 by Magdalene L. Crowley

Joseph T. Gier was a pioneer in every sense. He was the first Black tenured faculty member in the UC system, a successful inventor, and a world authority on infrared measurement. Who was Berkeley EECS Prof. Joseph Gier?

Filed Under: Black History, Diversity, Faculty, History, People, Research

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