Department: EECS

Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine (photo: NVIDIA)

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…

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…

Hany Farid speaks on Photo Forensics, 9/6/17 (photo: jsherman@johnshermanphotography.com)

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…

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…