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 […]
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Latinx Heritage Month: Prof. Armando Fox
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 […]
Latinx Heritage Month: Prof. Emeritus Edward Ashford Lee
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. […]
Meet the New Berkeley EE Faculty
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 […]
Meet the new Berkeley CS Faculty
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 […]
Reintroducing Joseph Thomas Gier
The First Tenured Black Professor at the University of California In 1942, David Blackwell, the man widely credited with being the first tenured black professor at U.C. Berkeley (see sidebar), was courted for a faculty position in the mathematics department but was never offered the job. He later learned that the appointment was blocked because […]
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 […]
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, […]
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), […]