Gordon Wetzstein named 2019 PECASE Recipient
The award acknowledges contributions to scientific leadership, public education, and community outreach.
Algorithm Finds Flaws and Foils Hackers
Developed by Subhasish Mitra and Clark Barrett (CS), future versions will find and fix sophisticated chip vulnerabilities.
Krishna Shenoy: employing stats theory to help map neural function
Aim is to build prosthetics that will function via neural activity.
Wetzstein’s research offers new focus on progressive lenses
‘Autofocals' could resolve eyeglass shortcomings.
Professor Dorsa Sadigh: Setting Goals for Robots
Her team found combining demonstrations and surveys allowed for efficient and situationally desirable learning, than only specifying preferences.
Irena Fisher-Hwang, EE PhD ’19 finds her passion in data-driven reporting
This past year, she has helped develop “story recipes” for newsrooms to collect and analyze data for investigative reporting.
Jelena appointed inaugural Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership
Congratulations to Jelena on her well-deserved recognition.
John Duchi receives 2019 ONR Young Investigator Award
His proposal is titled, "Practical Optimality Guarantees in Estimation and Learning”.