Department: EECS

January 29, 2025

Using AI, these robots learn complicated skills with startling accuracy

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine’s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip. Through what might have…

January 27, 2025

Alexandre Bayen receives honorary doctorate from TU Delft

EECS Professor Alexandre Bayen has been awarded an honorary doctorate by TU Delft. The honorary doctorate was conferred during the 183rd Dies Natalis celebrations, which this year focused on the theme “Making Sense of Mobility.” “Alexandre Bayen studies the collaborative autonomy of manually and automatically driven vehicles. His research is…

January 22, 2025

Stuart Russell wins AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been awarded the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Award for the Benefit of Humanity recognizes AI advancements that have a positive, lasting impact on human life—protecting, enhancing, and improving humanity in…

Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine (photo: NVIDIA)

January 17, 2025

EECS faculty and alumni win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

EECS Associate Professor Sergey Levine has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Four alumni were also named among PECASE recipients this year: Dorsa Sadigh (Ph.D. ’17, advisors: Sastry and Seshia); Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18, advisors: Abbeel and Levine); Tamara Broderick (Statistics Ph.D. ’14, advisor:…

January 17, 2025

Professor Bob Brayton, pioneer in logic synthesis and formal verification, has died

EECS Professor Emeritus Robert K. Brayton has passed away. He was 91. A trained electrical engineer and mathematician, Bob Brayton was a pioneer in logic synthesis and formal verification. His career spanned multiple decades, during which he made groundbreaking contributions to the field of electrical engineering. For the first 26…