October 10, 2024
CS Associate Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize. Cheung was cited for his groundbreaking work on “verified lifting,” applying ideas from program synthesis to dramatically improve the end-to-end performance of database-backed applications. The Dahl-Nygaard Prizes, founded in 2004 by the Association Internationale Pour les Technologies Objets (AITO),…
October 3, 2024
The oral history of William “Bill” Oldham, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences, is now online in the UC Berkeley Library’s digital collections. Oldham joined the faculty in 1964, where he was an expert on process technology, as well as the co-founder and…
October 3, 2024
Every day someone asks Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science and in the School of Information, to review images, audio and videos to determine if they are real or fake. As one of the world’s…
September 30, 2024
Berkeley researchers have developed a method to improve temporal resolution for Imaging microscopic samples. In a study published in Nature Methods, they demonstrated a new computational imaging tool, dubbed the neural space-time model (NSTM), that uses a small, lightweight neural network to reduce motion artifacts and solve for the…
September 26, 2024
Three projects in the California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub (NW-AI-Hub) aimed at dramatically improving the energy efficiency of artificial intelligence hardware are getting a $16.3 million boost from the Department of Defense.
September 23, 2024
Three CS grad students have been named Siebel Scholars for the class of 2025, each receiving a $35,000 grant for their research. Cade Gordon, Jessica Lin, and Oliver Yu were recognized for their academic excellence and leadership. Their work spans areas such as protein…
September 19, 2024
Berkeley Lab: EECS professor Sayeef Salahuddin is part of a team working to fast-track the development of ultra-low-power microelectronics…
September 12, 2024
EECS Professor Laura Waller has been awarded a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal. The Max Planck-Humboldt Medal, awarded jointly by the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, recognizes unique individuals’ potential for the future as well as their innovative research projects. Waller was cited as a pioneer of computational…
September 11, 2024
A paper by Adelson Chua, Aviral Pandey, Ryan Kaveh, Sina Faraji Alamouti, and Justin Doong, led by EECS Associate Professor Rikky Muller, has won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits. The VLSI Symposium is a global conference dedicated to semiconductor…
September 3, 2024
EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has won the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Power Electronics Prize Letter Award for her groundbreaking paper, “A Piezoelectric-Resonator-Based DC-DC Converter Demonstrating 1 kW/cm^3 Resonator Power Density.” TPEL is the leading journal in power electronics. The paper by Boles, Bonavia, Lang, and Perreault…