Four UC Berkeley assistant professors have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious honors given to early-career scientific researchers. The four are among 118 new 2022 fellows announced this week by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships recognize young scholars whose “achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific …
ME Professors Grace Gu and Somayeh Sojoudi Win 2021 ONR Young Investigator Award
ME Assistant Professor Grace X. Gu Selected as 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer
SME, the professional association committed to advancing manufacturing professionals, academia and communities, today announces that 15 achievers have been selected to receive the 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. The 2020 awardees, from the U.S. and Canada, have centered their research and management efforts around manufacturing processes, environmental sustainability, additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, medical …
ME Assistant Professor Grace X. Gu Named 2020 MRS Communications Lecturer
The Materials Research Society (MRS), along with its publishing partner, Cambridge University Press, congratulates Grace X. Gu, along with Chun-Teh Chen, both of the University of California, Berkeley on receiving the 2020 MRS Communications Lecture award for their paper, Machine learning for composite materials. Published March 27, 2019 MRS Communications Volume 9, Issue 2 Gu …
ME Assistant Professor Grace X. Gu to Receive 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
SME, an association committed to advancing manufacturing and developing a skilled workforce, today announces that 15 achievers have been selected to receive the 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. The 2020 awardees, from the U.S. and Canada, have centered their research and management efforts around manufacturing processes, environmental sustainability, additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, medical …
Berkeley Professors Named Innovators Under 35
Two Berkeley Engineering professors — mechanical engineering’s Grace Gu and EECS’ Raluca Ada Popa — were included in MIT Technology Review’s list of “innovators under 35” today. This honor is given annually to technologists whose work has great potential to change the world.
ME Assistant Professor Grace Gu Receives 2019 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
ME Assistant Professor Grace Gu is a recipient of the 2019 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA). This competitive award recognizes outstanding young faculty who were nominated by 3M researchers and selected based on their research, experience, and academic leadership. In addition, this award also provides financial support of $15,000 per year for up to three …
Interview: Grace X. Gu, UC Berkeley, Developer of a Self-Correcting 3D Printer
The 2019 winner of the WiSTEM2D is Grace X. Gu. Part of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at UC Berkeley, Professor Gu has conducted pioneering work in the field of additive manufacturing, including recent work on a self-correcting 3D printer. 3D Printing Industry got in contact with Professor Gu to to learn more about this particular project, …
These 6 University Researchers Are Ready to Change the World With Their Inventions
They’re the winners of the second annual Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award, thanks to such amazing innovations as tattoos that can monitor changes in your metabolism. Meet them and their groundbreaking work.
New Faculty Spotlight: Grace X. Gu
The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to introduce you to one of our newest faculty members: Assistant Professor Grace X. Gu.
Professor Gu joined us here in Etcheverry Hall in the Fall of 2018. Below, Professor Gu shares how she became interested in the field of mechanical engineering, her hobbies outside the office, and what she looks forward to most here at Berkeley.