Students
December 12, 2023
Making the grade
EECS professors Armando Fox and Dan Garcia develop ‘A’s for All’ pilot, a “mastery learning” grading system that gives students more room to learn from their mistakes. Students advance through topics only after they master the material for each one, with the aim of achieving thorough proficiency in the subject.
September 26, 2023
EECS Grads win another IEEE COMPEL Best Paper Award
EECS graduate students Yicheng Zhu and Jiarui Zou, and post-docs Ting Ge and Nathan Ellis have won the 2023 IEEE Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) Best Paper Award. Their paper, “A 48-V-to-1-V Switching Bus Converter for Ultra-High-Current Applications,” demonstrated a new dc-dc power converter topology and control technique…
August 24, 2023
Berkeley EECS pioneers AI brain implant to restore speech
A team of researchers from UCSF and Berkeley EECS have developed an implantable AI-powered device that can translate brain signals into modulated speech and facial expressions. The device, a multimodal speech prosthesis, and digital avatar, was developed to help a woman who had lost the ability to speak due to…
August 3, 2023
AI-dating app co-founded by Berkeley CS Students featured on “The Today Show”
Charis Zhang, Oliver Johansson, and Tobias Worledge, three Berkeley CS undergraduates, have co-founded RIZZ!, an AI-dating app that uses AI to generate witty and charming messages. The app, which was featured on “The Today Show,” has helped users drastically reduce the time between chatting online and meeting in person. “Traditionally…
June 28, 2023
New Gen Z graduates are fluent in AI and ready to join the workforce
Edith Llontop (EECS B.S. ’23) quoted in The Washington Post.
June 14, 2023
EECS researchers explore unprecedented privacy risks of VR
An article produced by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society highlighted the increasingly frought landscape of user privacy in the emerging world of Virtual Reality (VR) devices. The article cites two papers published by faculty, students, and visitors affiliated with the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence. Led…
June 13, 2023
Boubacar Kanté and EECS researchers develop all-silicon quantum light source
A team of researchers led by Professor Boubacar Kanté has demonstrated the first on-demand quantum light source using silicon, an advancement towards creating photons in ways that would reliably feed quantum networks, or a quantum internet. “The possibility to use silicon as a source of quantum light signifies that current large-scale Complementary…
June 12, 2023
Two graduate students receive technical awards at IEEE APEC
Two Berkeley EECS graduate students, Haifah Sambo and Logan Horowitz, received separate Technical Session Best Presentation Awards at the 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), after a rigorous review process that highlights the conference’s most innovative technical solutions. Sambo received a Technical Lecture Award, for her oral presentation of her paper, “Autotuning of…
May 18, 2023
UC Regents vote to establish College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
The UC Board of Regents today voted to establish UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the campus’s first new college in more than 50 years. The vote is the result of a three-year process to transform the Division of Computing, Data Science and Society into a…