November 8, 2024
Department: EECS
November 4, 2024
EECS Fall 2024 Alumni Newsletter | November 4, 2024
November 4, 2024
Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos
Physical Intelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by EECS Associate Professor Sergey Levine, announced it had raised $400 million in financing from major investors. The company aims to develop foundational software designed to be compatible with any robot, moving away from the traditional method of creating software tailored to specific…
November 1, 2024
EECS Undergraduate Newsletter | November 1, 2024
October 30, 2024
Robots could help close surgeons’ skill gaps and improve patient outcomes
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…
October 25, 2024
Alumnus Yasser Khan named Packard Fellow
EECS alumnus Yasser Khan (Ph.D. ’18, Advisor: Ana Arias) has been honored by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation as one of the 2024 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. This prestigious fellowship provides recipients with the freedom to explore innovative ideas and advance cutting-edge technology through unrestricted funding and…
October 25, 2024
EECS Undergraduate Newsletter | October 25, 2024
October 18, 2024
EECS Undergraduate Newsletter | October 18, 2024
October 18, 2024
The Pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.
Hany Farid, a professor of digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, identified evidence of AI manipulation in a handful of recent Storm-1516 videos, including one from July of a man posing as a luxury car salesman to falsely claim to have sold Zelenska a…
October 17, 2024
Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu receive Teaching Effectiveness Award
EECS grads Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu have received Teaching Effectiveness Awards for 2024. The Graduate Division’s Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs honors those who devise solutions to teaching or learning problems they have identified in their classes and write them up in a one-page essay. These essays are published…