January 14, 2019
Research collaboration between Singapore–Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics (SinBerBEST 2 — part of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore center) led by EE Prof. Costas Spanos, and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment (CBE) resulted in three 2018 Building and Environment Best Paper Awards. The…
January 1, 2019
A new neurostimulator, described in a paper co-authored by EE Prof. Jan Rabaey, Prof. Jose Carmena, Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller, grad students Andy Zhou, George Alexandrov and Ali Moin, and alumnus Fred Burghardt (B.S. ’92/M.S. ’94), in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, works like a “pacemaker for the brain” to…
November 19, 2018
A research study led by EE Prof. Chunlei Liu (senior author) and postdoc Nan-Ji Gong (first author), which is the cover story of the November issue of Neurobiology of Disease, found that a single season of high school football may be enough to cause microscopic changes in the structure of…
November 13, 2018
A new flexible sensor developed by Berkeley EE researchers can map blood-oxygen levels over large areas of skin, tissue and organs, potentially giving doctors a new way to monitor healing wounds in real time. The research group, which includes Prof. Ana Claudia Arias, Yasser Khan, Donggeon Han, Adrien Pierre, Jonathan…
November 7, 2018
UC Berkeley computer theorists led by CS Prof. Umesh Vazirani, published a proof of random circuit sampling (RCS) as a verification method to prove quantum supremacy in a paper published Monday, Oct. 29, in the journal Nature Physics. Quantum supremacy is the term that describes a quantum computer’s ability to…
November 6, 2018
A paper written by CS Prof. David Culler and alumnus Jonathan Hui (M.S. ’05/Ph.D. ’08) in 2008 titled “IP is Dead, Long Live IP for Wireless Sensor Networks” has won the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2018 Test of Time Award. The paper…
October 26, 2018
2005 CS Distinguished Alumna Barbara Simons (Ph.D. ’81) is the subject of a Berkeley Engineering profile celebrating the 150th anniversary of U.C. Berkeley. Simons, who is a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has been drawing attention to the pitfalls of electronic voting since 2003. She’s a…
October 16, 2018
UC Berkeley is the top ranked university in the third annual Octoverse Report list of “Open source contributions made by employees of different organizations,” with 2700 contributions. Berkeley is the fourth ranked organization overall–after Microsoft, Google, and Red Hat. The Octoverse Report is…
October 8, 2018
CS postdoctoral researcher Urmila Mahadev (advisor: Umesh Vazirani) has come up with an interactive protocol by which users with no quantum powers of their own can employ cryptography to put a harness on a quantum computer and drive it wherever they want, with the certainty that the quantum computer is…
August 2, 2018
CS alumnus Jun-Yan Zhu (Ph.D. ’17, advisor: Alexei Efros)…