Department: EECS

October 17, 2024

Berkeley researchers receive ARPA-H awards

EECS Associate Professor Rikky Muller is part of a team led by Carnegie Mellon University that will create implantable bioelectronic devices to address obesity and diabetes through a six-year project called RX On-site Generation Using Electronics (ROGUE). ROGUE will precisely stimulate cells within a device to produce…

A line of people forms in front of ballot booths. The words

October 15, 2024

Public trust in U.S. elections is decreasing. But should it be?

Recent polls show public trust in the integrity of U.S. elections is decreasing, largely among Republicans. But this doesn’t signal that our elections are getting less reliable, UC Berkeley scholars said. In fact, elections in the U.S. are more secure and the results are…

Cheung receives the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize.

October 10, 2024

Alvin Cheung wins Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize

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),…

September 26, 2024

AI hardware hub awarded $16.3M from DOD

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.