Research

October 7, 2025

With these devices, the doctor is always in: Berkeley engineer Rikky Muller explains how implantable and wearable technologies are redefining patient care

UC Berkeley’s Rikky Muller (Ph.D.’13 EECS), associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, can still recall her first glimpse into the world of neurotechnology. At a conference nearly two decades ago, she saw something that didn’t seem possible: chips recording neural signals from the brain, then using those signals to…

Ion Stoica

October 1, 2025

Lightspeed + Sky Lab: Supporting UC Berkeley’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

Lightspeed Venture Partners and UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab have announced a $500,000 partnership to fund pivotal research in EECS amidst a shifting landscape of funding. This marks the first formal venture capital partnership in the history of Sky Computing Lab (which follows the legacy of influential labs like RISELab…

August 27, 2025

EECS researchers develop a scalable quantum platform for high-speed communications

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Materials Sciences Division has made a significant leap toward building compact and scalable quantum networks. The work, published in Optica, details a new chip-based system that can control multiple quantum…

Prof. Chang is presented the award plaque at the KDD conference.

August 13, 2025

Serina Chang wins ACM KDD Dissertation Award

CS Assistant Professor Serina Chang, who joined UC Berkeley EECS in July, has been honored with the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) Dissertation Award for her thesis, “Computational Methods for Human Networks and High-Stakes Decisions.” Chang’s work sits at the intersection of AI…

July 24, 2025

Qinghua Ding wins IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

EECS Ph.D. student Qinghua Ding has been awarded the 2025 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). This prestigious award recognizes outstanding student-authored papers presented at ISIT, one of the premier conferences in information theory. Ding was selected for the paper,…

July 18, 2025

Alvin Cheung receives ACSIC Rock Star Award

CS Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Rock Star Award for Mid-Career Investigators by the Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (ACSIC). This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to computing within 12 years of completing their most recent computing-related degree. The ACSIC Rock Star Award…

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July 15, 2025

Translating Legacy Code for a Safer Future: DARPA Backs Effort to Convert C to Rust

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $5 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program. The team’s goal is…