Research
July 17, 2024
Jessica Boles wins ARPA-E IGNIITE Early Career Award
EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has won an ARPA-E Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE) Early Career Award. Boles is one of 23 recipients receiving approximately $500,000 to advance their research and convert “disruptive ideas into impactful energy technologies.” The IGNIITE 2024 selectees were…
July 15, 2024
Berkeley EECS theory group wins STOC 2024 Best Paper Award
EECS and Mathematics Professor Venkatesan Guruswami, EECS graduate students Xuandi Ren and Kewen Wu, Nanjing University Professor Bingkai Lin, and Peking University graduate student Yican Sun have won a Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Best Paper Award. Their paper, “Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis under Exponential Time Hypothesis” was presented at the…
July 11, 2024
Berkeley CS alum wins second place at ACM Student Research Competition
CS alum Amar Shah received second place in the undergraduate category of the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) Grand Finals. The year-long competition involves 323 computer science students presenting research projects at 21 ACM conferences, culminating in the SRC Grand Finals where three winners are…
July 8, 2024
Berkeley EECS win awards at CVPR
CS Assistant Professor Angjoo Kanazawa has won the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Young Researcher Award. The award recognizes researchers who have made distinguished contributions to Computer Vision within seven years of receiving their Ph.D. Kanazawa currently leads the Kanazawa AI Research (KAIR) Lab under…
June 27, 2024
Umesh Vazirani wins SIGecom Test-Of-Time Award
EECS Professor Umesh Vazirani has won the 2024 ACM SIGecom Test 0f Time Award. The SIGecom Test of Time Award honors the author or authors of a seminal paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago, which has had a profound impact on research or applications,…
June 21, 2024
Graduate Student wins IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
EECS graduate student Justin Kang has won the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. Kang and co-author Professor Wei Yu from the University of Toronto were selected for their work on “Minimum Feedback for Collision-Free Scheduling in Massive Random Access.” Granted annually, the award recognizes outstanding…
June 14, 2024
Berkeley EECS researchers win Best Showcase Award at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
EECS graduate students Logan Horowitz, Syed Tahmid Mahbub, Jiarui Zou, and Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski have received a Best Showcase Award at the 2024 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. In collaboration with a team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and other academic and industry partners, the Berkeley team developed technology that…
June 7, 2024
Light science: Boubacar Kanté takes on tough challenges to drive innovation in optoelectronics
“Researchers have been trying since the 1960s to build a single-mode laser that can be scaled up in size and power,” says Kanté. “Now, we have met the challenge, demonstrating both of these qualities in a laser. This will likely stand as one of the most important papers published by…
June 7, 2024
Opaque Launches New Platform For Running AI Workloads on Encrypted Data
“The Confidential AI platform was developed at the Berkeley RISELab, a world-renowned lab known for developing technologies such as Apache Spark and Databricks. It was at this lab where the breakthrough MC2 (Multiparty Collaboration and Competition) platform was created, incubated, and open-sourced. In 2021, this platform served as the foundation…