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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

The 2019 EECS Distinguished Alumni

February 8, 2019 by Matthew Santillan

Berkeley EECS has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize the valuable contributions of its most distinguished alumni. EE alumnus Sharad Malik (M.S. ’87/EE Ph.D ’90, advisor: Robert k. Brayton), currently chair of Electrical Engineering at Princeton, was recognized for excellence in teaching, and groundbreaking research on design methodologies for future computing systems. EE alumnus […]

Filed Under: Alumni, History, People Tagged With: alumni, BEARS, honors, industry

Photos from the 2018 Student Awards Ceremony

May 11, 2018 by Magdalene L. Crowley

The EECS 2018 Student Awards Ceremony was held on Friday May 4, 2018, at 11am-1:30pm in Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.

Filed Under: People, Students Tagged With: events

Portraits by Lotfi Zadeh

February 27, 2018 by Magdalene L. Crowley

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 […]

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Diving into Blue Waters: Wen-Rui Liao

February 20, 2018 by Heather Levien

With a father and a brother who are both electrical engineers in Singapore, Wen-Rui Liao came to UC Berkeley knowing that he wanted to learn about both software and hardware and their interfaces.  He has been watching the ways that new technologies are impacting so many aspects of people’s everyday lives and wanting to become […]

Filed Under: CS Scholars, Diversity, Students Tagged With: diversity, scholars

The 2018 Distinguished EECS Alumni

February 8, 2018 by Magdalene L. Crowley

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 […]

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Berkeley’s FLIPalliance for Diversity

December 8, 2017 by Magdalene L. Crowley

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, […]

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Fall ’17 Alumni Spotlight: Estela Llinás

August 20, 2017 by Magdalene L. Crowley

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, […]

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