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January 27, 2025

Alexandre Bayen receives honorary doctorate from TU Delft

EECS Professor Alexandre Bayen has been awarded an honorary doctorate by TU Delft. The honorary doctorate was conferred during the 183rd Dies Natalis celebrations, which this year focused on the theme “Making Sense of Mobility.” “Alexandre Bayen studies the collaborative autonomy of manually and automatically driven vehicles. His research is…

January 22, 2025

Stuart Russell wins AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been awarded the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Award for the Benefit of Humanity recognizes AI advancements that have a positive, lasting impact on human life—protecting, enhancing, and improving humanity in…

Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine (photo: NVIDIA)

January 17, 2025

EECS faculty and alumni win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

EECS Associate Professor Sergey Levine has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Four alumni were also named among PECASE recipients this year: Dorsa Sadigh (Ph.D. ’17, advisors: Sastry and Seshia); Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18, advisors: Abbeel and Levine); Tamara Broderick (Statistics Ph.D. ’14, advisor:…

January 17, 2025

Professor Bob Brayton, pioneer in logic synthesis and formal verification, has died

EECS Professor Emeritus Robert K. Brayton has passed away. He was 91. A trained electrical engineer and mathematician, Bob Brayton was a pioneer in logic synthesis and formal verification. His career spanned multiple decades, during which he made groundbreaking contributions to the field of electrical engineering. For the first 26…

January 14, 2025

Ken Goldberg featured on Armchair Expert

EECS Professor Ken Goldberg is featured as a guest on Armchair Expert. “Ken joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being born in Nigeria, growing up in rough and tumble City of Brotherly Love, and on how that taught him how to not take things lying down. Ken and Dax address…

January 9, 2025

In Memoriam: Michael Clancy

Professor Emeritus Michael J. Clancy, a beloved member of the UC Berkeley EECS community, passed away on December 26, 2024, at the age of 75. Professor Clancy joined UC Berkeley as a lecturer in 1977, where he quickly became a cornerstone of the Computer Science teaching community. He taught virtually…