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Berkeley EECS to honor Joseph Gier with memorial sculpture

December 21, 2022 by Matthew Santillan

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A community is defined by the heroes it chooses to celebrate. We invite you to join the EECS department in recognizing a previously overlooked hero, Berkeley EE Prof. Joseph T. Gier, the University of California’s first tenured Black professor. Raised in Oakland by a single mother, Gier came to Berkeley as an undergraduate in 1930, […]

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CS Kickstart kicks off to a great start

August 30, 2022 by Matthew Santillan

CS Kickstart, an EECS-affiliated student organization, held its week-long computer science immersion program earlier this month, ushering in a record turnout for the outreach program designed to attract female-identifying first-year students to computer science at Berkeley. Its ice cream social with CS advisors, which took place on August 11th in Cory Hall, was only a […]

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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 […]

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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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Combining EECS and Ballet: Alexandria Finley

October 7, 2016 by Heather Levien

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, […]

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Looking at the Top in Tech: Virginia Smith

September 23, 2016 by Heather Levien

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 […]

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Fall ’16 Alumni Spotlight: Diane Greene

August 16, 2016 by Magdalene L. Crowley Leave a Comment

Diane B. Greene (M.S. CS 1988) is ranked #1 of the 26 most powerful female engineers in 2016 by Business Insider. Diane was a founder and CEO of VMware in 1998 and is currently the Senior Vice President of (cloud) Enterprise Business at Google, one of the most influential roles in the technology industry. Diane […]

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