Arvind Sridhar
Arvind Sridhar awarded Davidson Fellows scholarship
Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program (M.E.T.) student Arvind Sridhar (CS/Business) has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellows scholarship. The award is presented annually by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development to 20 students based on "significant work" in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, literature, music and philosophy. Sridhar's scholarship was granted based on a study he undertook at the Stanford University School of Medicine over the summer. He sought to create algorithms and computational models that would allow doctors to diagnose the health of cardiac tissue using only images and videos of a tissue sample, and then use an injectable hydrogel, which mimics the heart's micro-environment, to anchor and nourish stem cells to parts of the heart, allowing them to enable cardiac regeneration.
The Mercury News: Sunnyvale native wins Davidson Fellow $25,000 scholarship
Davidson Institute: Arvind Sridhar
CS Prof. Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker wins 2017 Berkeley Visionary Award
CS Prof. Scott Shenker has won a 2017 Visionary Award from the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. The award was created to acknowledge entrepreneurs and "celebrate people with the imagination and persistence to innovate in the City of Berkeley." Shenker co-founded Nicira, a company focused on software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization, which was sold to VMware in 2012 for $1.26 billion. The award will be presented at ceremony at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on September 11th.
Berkeley Chamber of Commerce: Visionary Awards
Startup institute, The House (Joshua Jordan/Daily Cal)
Berkeley ranks second in most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs in 2017
For the second year in a row, U.C. Berkeley has ranked No. 2 among the 50 undergraduate programs that produce the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs, according to PitchBook's 2017-18 report. The report distinguishes undergraduate and MBA programs, compares Ivy League colleges to other universities and analyzes numbers such as companies per sector, female founders and total capital raised by founders' companies. This year, UC Berkeley produced 1,089 entrepreneurs and 961 companies.
The Daily Cal: UC Berkeley comes in 2nd to Stanford in 2017-18 startup ranking
3rd place winners of the 2017 Greylock Hackfest
Berkeley team takes 3rd place in Greylock Hackfest
Undergraduate students Jian Lu (EECS junior), Walt Leung (CS sophomore), Jiayi Chen (CS junior), and Malhar Patel (EECS junior) placed 3rd at the Greylock Hackfest in July. Their platform, BeAR, allows multiple users to connect to the same #AR (augmented reality) session. The Hackfest, sponsored by Greylock Partners, allows 45 teams of up to four university students the opportunity to show what they can build to a panel of tech industry judges. Hacks are judged based on five different criteria: level of difficulty, aesthetics, originality, usefulness, and your project's "WOW factor."
Greylock Partners: Hackfest
Greylock Hackfest 2017 on Twitter
Medium: Scaling AR in 24 Hours
The M.E.T. class of 2021 (photo: Noah Berger)
M.E.T. program welcomes inaugural class
The Management, Engineering, & Technology (M.E.T.) program welcomed it's inaugural class of 40 students this week--drawn from about 2,500 applicants. Undergrads who are admitted to M.E.T. combine courses at the Haas School of Business with one of three engineering tracks, including EECS. While they take classes in both subjects throughout their 4 years at Berkeley, they will study together in a tight-knit cohort. The collaboration aims to build deep leadership and technology skills, and lay the groundwork for the next generation of entrepreneurs, CEOs, and Silicon Valley leaders. The class of 2021 is made up of 30% women.
Berkeley News: Joint business-engineering program welcomes its inaugural class
Jonathan Maltz to lead clinical studies of HeartSentry
EE alumnus Jonathan S. Maltz (Ph.D. EE '99) is serving as the lead researcher and Chief Scientific Advisor during the clinical trials of HeartSentry, a non-invasive diagnostic tool to measure and monitor cardiovascular health. HeartSentry is being developed at Lexington Biosciences, a development-stage medical device company in Vancouver, Canada. It is the product of 15-years of research at U.C. Berkeley. Maltz has had over 16 years experience designing new devices for assessing vascular function and evaluating these on human subjects.
SATPRNews: Lexington Biosciences Introduces Medical Advisory Board