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Fight sexual harassment in tech — with technology

12/14/17 Mercury News — In a commentary piece, CITRIS post-doc Brandie Nonnecke reports on two novel ways that women-led Bay Area startups are using technology to address gender-based discrimination and harassment in the tech sector.

A new metacanvas for metamaterials

12/13/17 — Junqiao Wu and Jie Yao, professors of materials science and members of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, asked themselves how it might be possible to create metamaterial devices that could be erased and written over again - like an Etch A Sketch drawing toy - to quickly yield a quite different device.
Tsu-Jae King Liu, Eli Yablonovitch

Liu, Yablonovitch honored as inventors

12/12/17 — EECS professors Tsu-Jae King Liu and Eli Yablonovitch are among three newly named Berkeley fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, an organization that champions the societal benefits of university research.
FLIPalliance: Dragan, Forbes, Fox, Joseph, Stephens-Martinez, Garcia, and Taylor

Berkeley’s FLIPalliance for diversity

12/09/17 — As part of its effort to attract talented women and minority graduate computer science applicants, Berkeley Engineering has joined the NSF-funded FLIP Alliance (Diversifying Future Leadership In the Professoriate).
Steven Conolly in his lab with two magnetic particle imaging prototypes. 

Closing in on cancer

12/06/17 — Bioengineering and EECS professor Steven Conolly is building a new kind of medical diagnostic technology called magnetic particle imaging (MPI).
The robot Vestri plays with objects to learn how to complete a task.

New robots can see into the future

12/06/17 — Berkeley researchers, led by EECS assistant professor Sergey Levine, have developed a learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before.
Winning students Eric Munsing, Allen Tang, Soeren Kuenzel and Jake Soloff with their prize check

Grad students win $100,000 in data science contest

12/04/17 — A team of UC Berkeley graduate students with serious data science and analysis skills, including EECS MS student Allen Tang and CEE Ph.D. candidate Eric Munsing beat teams from the likes of Harvard, MIT and Oxford to win the $100,000 top prize in an international data science competition staged by the hedge fund Citadel.
Computers and mouse

At Berkeley, ‘ethical hackers’ learn to wage cyberwar

11/29/17 New Yorker — EECS professor Doug Tygar is teaching a new generation of cyber security researchers to prevent cyberwar attacks by forensically examining them, and even sometimes mounting "ethical hacking" schemes of their own.
Frame grab from Slaughterbots video showing drone promoter

Professor’s eerie lethal drone video goes viral

11/20/17 SF Chronicle — "Slaughterbots," a not-so-futuristic video warning against the development of autonomous weapons, has gone viral. Co-created by EECS professor Stuart Russell and the Future of Life Institute, it was released this week at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva.
Siddharth Satishm Kunwoo Lee and Han Jin

Engineering alumni among Forbes 30 Under 30

11/17/17 — Three Berkeley Engineering alumni - Siddharth Satish and Kunwoo Lee from Bioengineering and Han Jin from Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - are among the young stars included in the 2018 edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
“blankie” developed at UC Berkeley that contains printed MRI coils

Medical electronics ‘like a second skin’

11/16/17 STAT — Using simple printers with special inks, EECS professor Ana Claudia Arias specializes in the development of low-cost, flexible and wearable electronics that can be used for medical monitoring and imaging.
Cybersecurity graphic

Berkeley offers new cybersecurity degree

11/15/17 CLTC — Applications are being accepted for a new, online master's of information and cybersecurity program at UC Berkeley's School of Information, in collaboration with the College of Engineering and the I-School's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

Students learn to ‘think like a hacker’

11/09/17 EdScoop — Through a partnership with HackerOne's bug bounty platform, students in EECS professor Doug Tygar's computer science class are gaining real-world experience in cybersecurity and ethical hacking - with the potential for real-world payoffs.
Byron Zhang with some of the Watsi team during a visit to a medical partner in Tanzania.

Coding better healthcare

11/07/17 — Byron Zhang (B.S'15 EECS) is using computer science to make health care more accessible in developing economies.