I hope you can help me get the word out about this scholarship for Native students – both undergraduates and graduates. I am extending the scholarship deadline for the Intel scholarships to May 15, 2018. Thank you so much for your help in getting the word out about this scholarship. The Intel scholarships are $5,000 for […]
Who wants to be a Google Games Champion?
Come on down, Berkeley students! Do you want to be a contestant at this years Google Games? Is your team ready to challenge yourselves, win prizes and have fun? Well, we invite you to register for The Google Games Bay Area taking place on Saturday, April 14th. Survey says that contestants will compete against other […]
Blockchain Funding Opportunities
WHO WE ARE mouseBelt Labs is an ICO startup accelerator funding 10 companies in 2018 through our classOne program starting August 1. We also fund academic blockchain projects through our summerOne grant program starting June 15. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: We want to support students, grad students and researchers who are excited about blockchain […]
uLab Machine Learning Job Positions
Interested in deep learning? Have you wanted to apply computational concepts to other fields such as medicine or art? Have you ever wanted to get experience running a research group? The Statistical Modeling and Deep Learning uLab is looking for machine learning staff scientists, project leaders, and mentors for various projects involving data science, computer […]
Photos from the 2018 Student Awards Ceremony
The EECS 2018 Student Awards Ceremony was held on Friday May 4, 2018, at 11am-1:30pm in Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.
Portraits by Lotfi Zadeh
At the beginning of his career, Prof. Lotfi Zadeh enjoyed capturing the people around him in a series of black and white portraits. He joined the EECS faculty in 1959 after stints at Columbia and Princeton. As department Chair from 1963-68, he led the charge to change the name of the department from Electrical Engineering […]
The 2018 Distinguished EECS Alumni
The 2018 Distinguished EECS Alumni awards were presented to Prof. Marie desJardins, Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Richard Ruby, and EECS Prof. Emeritus Eric Brewer, at the at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS) on February 8, 2018. CS alumna Marie desJardins (Ph.D. ’92), currently a Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, and Associate Dean […]
Berkeley’s FLIPalliance for Diversity
When Dan Garcia first attended UC Berkeley as a graduate student, he was amazed at the many different faces and key spaces that make up the world’s top public research university. “I can’t imagine being anywhere else,” says Garcia, adding that part of what makes Berkeley special is the confluence of its diverse urban setting, […]
Fall ’17 Alumni Spotlight: Estela Llinás
40 years ago, Estela Llinás (née Soria) graduated from Berkeley with a Ph.D. in EECS. One of an elite group of women during her era, she looks back on her childhood, her experiences as a woman engineer, her role as a mother, and a career that spanned three continents. Dr. Llinás was born in Córdoba, […]
Berkeley CS faculty are among the most influential in their fields
U.C. Berkeley has the top ten most AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award winners across all fields of computer science in 2016(1)Includes data for Thomas Griffiths in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (#92 in Machine Learning), CS alumnus Wei Hong (#38 in System and #65 in Database), CS alumnus Vaduvur Bharghavan (#39 in Computer Networking), […]