Jitendra Malik has been elected as Fellow of ACM which is a significant honor. Fellows are recognized for their outstanding achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM.
January 6
Eta Kappa Nu (HKN Berkeley chapter) advised by Prof. Anant Sahai, has won the Outstanding Chapter Award from the national Electrical Engineering honor society. Because of the great significance associated with the OCA, the award plaque for Mu Chapter will be formally announced and presented at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Annual Meeting Award banquet in New Orleans, LA.
January 6
The White House has honored Ravi Ramamoorthi for the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), which is defined as "the nation's highest honor for faculty members that are beginning their independent research careers." This award provides $1M over five years.
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January 5
Bin Yu has been named AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished theoretical contributions in statistics and machine learning and important engineering science applications, and for fostering and initiating interdisciplinary work in China and the United States.
January 5
The White House has honored Sanjit Seshia with the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), "the nation's highest award for scientists at the early stages of their careers". Professor Seshia is being recognized for his ground-breaking research in the fields of verification, learning and control for a new generation of survivable embedded systems. Also noted was his educational innovation in verification and in creating an undergraduate course on embedded systems.
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January 5
Kenneth Mei has been awarded the 2009 IEEE Electromagnetics Award in recognition of his exceptional achievements and contributions to computational electromagnetics and Maxwellian circuits.
December 9
The Parallel Computing Lab (Par Lab) held its opening ceremony on Dec. 1, 2008 in Soda Hall. The Par Lab's research agenda will be driven by creating compelling applications that need much more computing horsepower to run well, focusing on the areas of personal health, image retrieval, music, speech understanding, and web browsers. The Par Lab will be funded $10M over 5-years by the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) founded by Intel and Microsoft.
December 3
An interview profiling Richard Karp’s career as a faculty member to Kyoto Prize winner (Japan’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science) is featured in the Berkeley Science Review, Issue 15. Also featured is an article on the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) titled, "The Sound of New Music". David Wessel, co-director of CNMAT is also a faculty member of the Par Lab, a new EECS research center opening Dec. 1, 2008.
November 20
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been selected to receive the 2009 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award for pioneering innovation and leadership in electronic design automation that have enabled the design of modern electronics systems and their industrial implementation. Recipients are chosen for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields.
November 17
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