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 […]
Diving into Blue Waters: Wen-Rui Liao
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 […]
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), […]
Staff Spotlight: Shirley Salanio
I can think of no other staff member I’ve ever worked with who exemplifies “service cheerfully given for the general good” more than Shirley. She knows the name of nearly every EECS student. She said hello to me, by name, my first year before we ever interacted. When you first start grad school and everything […]
2016: A Year of Firsts
While 2015 ended on a high note with the late-November announcement of Ali Javey’s team’s creation of the first optoelectronically perfect monolayer semiconductor, that was just a taste of things to come. Research conducted in the EECS department in 2016 would go on to produce no fewer than four new firsts in a variety of arenas: […]
Combining EECS and Ballet: Alexandria Finley
Alexandria Finley wasn’t expecting to earn one of the ten places at the Genée International Ballet Competition this year that was sponsored by the competition, let alone one of the 100 places to compete. But without the sponsorship, she couldn’t afford to attend the 10 day competition in Sydney, Australia this December. In Alexandria’s mind, […]
Looking at the Top in Tech: Virginia Smith
Computer Science Ph.D. student, Virginia Smith, started out in a field where there were quite a lot women. As an undergraduate, she studied math, a field where there are almost equal numbers of men and women. Smith finished all of her required math courses in her first two years as an undergrad, and, looking for […]