Honors

Sagar Karandikar accepts the award at ACM SIGARCH

June 27, 2025

Sagar Karandikar wins 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award

EECS Assistant Professor Sagar Karandikar has been awarded the 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award. This prestigious honor recognizes exceptional doctoral research in the field of computer architecture.Karandikar was recognized “for advancing the state-of-the-art in agile hardware/software co-design tools and deploying them at a hyperscaler to architect custom…

June 27, 2025

EECS researchers win Best Robot Learning Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2025

Professors Ken Goldberg, John Kubiatowicz, and their team of students and collaborators: Kaiyuan Chen, Letian Fu, David Huang, Yanxiang Zhang, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Huang Huang, Kush Hari, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ted Xiao, and Pannag R Sanketi, have received the Best Robot Learning Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics…

June 26, 2025

Prabal Dutta named Ohio State Distinguished Alumni

Prabal Dutta, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Excellence from the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. This award honors alumni who have demonstrated significant achievement in academia through contributions to teaching, research, or education.

June 10, 2025

Michael Harrison has passed away

EECS Professor Emeritus Michael A. Harrison passed away on Saturday, June 7. He was 89. Professor Harrison earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1963. That same year, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor and spent most of his academic…

May 21, 2025

Stuart Russell elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Ninety researchers from around the world were named in this year’s cohort of fellows. “Their achievements represent the very best of scientific endeavour, from basic discovery to research with…

May 13, 2025

Miki Lustig wins ISMRM Gold Medal for pioneering work in MRI

EECS Professor Miki Lustig has won a Gold Medal Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the highest honor bestowed by the society. Lustig was recognized “for the development of compressed sensing methods for MRI acquisition and reconstruction,” a groundbreaking contribution that has significantly advanced…

May 6, 2025

Jan Rabaey to Receive the John Choma Education Award

UC Berkeley EECS Professor Emeritus Jan Rabaey was selected as the winner of the John Choma Education Award for “for contributions to education and leadership in integrated circuits and systems.” This award is given by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) and was named to recognize John Choma, who was…

Sayeef Salahuddin

May 5, 2025

EECS faculty and alumni named to inaugural NSTC Technical Advisory Board

Natcast, the entity designated by the Department of Commerce to operate the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), has announced its inaugural Technical Advisory Board (TAB). This advisory board, established by the CHIPS and Science Act, brings together top experts to shape the NSTC’s research agenda, driving U.S. innovation and leadership…

May 1, 2025

Armando Fox and Dan Garcia receive Leon A. Henkin Citation

EECS Professors Armando Fox and Dan Garcia have been awarded the prestigious Leon A. Henkin Citation by UC Berkeley’s Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Campus Climate (DECC). Named after Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Leon A. Henkin, who founded the Committee on Special Scholarships in 1963 to support students from…