Thanking the Academy
James O’Brien, an EECS professor, walks the red carpet for a technical achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Faculty honors and awards
Berkeley Engineering faculty receive the most prestigious awards and honors bestowed by academic and professional societies, foundations and other civic organizations. Among these are more than six dozen active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
CEE’s Jon Bray elected to engineering academy
Jonathan Bray, who holds the Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to earthquake engineering and advances in mitigation of surface faulting,
Gordon and Betty Moore endow chair to honor UC Berkeley engineering professor Paul Gray
Paul R. Gray, former executive vice chancellor and provost at UC Berkeley and former dean and professor emeritus in Berkeley’s College of Engineering, has been honored with the naming of a distinguished faculty chair at Berkeley, endowed by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty.
Berkeley innovators named fellows of National Academy of Inventors
Three UC Berkeley faculty members whose innovations have launched startups and whole new areas of research, including biochemical engineer Jay Keasling, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Paul Allen gives $5.7M to ‘cutting-edge’ artificial intelligence researchers
EECS professor Maneesh Agrawala, who is researching ways for machines to better “read” diagrams and other visualizations, is one of seven scientists who will share $5.7 million awarded this month by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation as part of the Allen Distinguished Investigator Program.
Professors honored for excellence in semiconductor technology and design research
Tsu-Jae King Liu, EECS chair and TSMC Distinguished Professor in Microelectronics, and engineering professor Kenneth O of UT Dallas have received University Research Awards from the Semiconductor Industry Association in recognition of their outstanding contributions to semiconductor research.