February 18, 2025
EECS Assistant Professor Natacha Crooks has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, granted annually to “honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders,” according to an announcement issued today (Feb. 18). …
February 12, 2025
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Russell was recognized “for contributions to developments in artificial intelligence, including reasoning, probabilistic modeling, planning, safety, and education.” Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the…
February 3, 2025
EECS Professor Boubacar Kante has been elected as an Optica Fellow, one of the highest honors in the field of optics and photonics. Kante was recognized “for creating and demonstrating new concepts in modern electromagnetics, particularly a path toward very-high-power, broad-area single-mode semiconductor lasers.” Optica Fellows are selected based on…
January 30, 2025
EECS Professor Ion Stoica discusses DeepSeek with Gadi Schwartz on NBC News NOW.
January 8, 2025
CDSS profiles CS Division Chair Jelani Nelson about his research and philosophy on coding, education and curricula reform.
December 12, 2024
Ana Arias, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Chair of the Electrical Engineering (EE) Division, has been elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow. This honor is bestowed upon individuals who demonstrate “unusual distinction in the profession,” recognizing their exceptional contributions to the field of engineering. The…
December 9, 2024
Graduate student team leads for the vLLM project: Woosuk Kwon, Zhuohan Li, Simon Mo Our AI Center of Excellence Mission The center will serve as a hub for cutting-edge applied research in generative AI (GenAI), drawing on the collective knowledge and resources of Intel and the…
December 6, 2024
EECS grad students Anastasios Angelopoulos (advisors: Jordan and Malik) and Wei-Lin Chiang (advisor: Stoica) were profiled by The Wall Street Journal for their work on Chatbot Arena.
November 25, 2024
EECS graduate students Rahul Iyer and Tahmid Mahbub have received the prestigious IEEE INTELEC-2024 Best Paper Award for their innovative work on energy systems in communications. The IEEE International Communications Energy Conference (INTELEC) 2024 is a leading forum dedicated to the technical and informational exchange on energy systems for communications,…
October 30, 2024
Robots could soon play a larger role in surgery thanks to recent AI developments, experts said in a new Science Robotics paper published today. “A surgeon’s dexterity often separates the good surgeons from the great ones,” wrote…