June 24, 2025
Andy Konwinski (CS Ph.D. 2012), with help from Google’s Jeff Dean and other AI luminaries, has launched a new institute to help turn promising academic AI breakthroughs into open-source tools, startups, and real-world products while fostering an “AI for good” research culture.
June 12, 2025
Started as student side project, Chatbot Arena is now the AI industry’s scoreboard—and a $100 million startup
June 10, 2025
EECS Professor Emeritus Michael A. Harrison passed away on Saturday, June 7. He was 89. Professor Harrison earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1963. That same year, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor and spent most of…
May 29, 2025
In a study published in Nature Communications, EECS researchers demonstrate how their new imaging method, Displacement Spectrum (DiSpect) MRI, maps blood flows “in reverse” to reveal the source of blood in the brain’s veins. This approach could help answer long-standing questions about brain physiology as well as provide…
May 28, 2025
EECS Teaching Professors Dan Garcia and Brian Harvey have been awarded the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced today in a press release. Garcia and Harvey were recognized “for their advocacy of and advances in education to bring the beauty…
May 16, 2025
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UC Berkeley EECS Professor Emeritus Jan Rabaey was selected as the winner of the John Choma Education Award for “for contributions to education and leadership in integrated circuits and systems.” This award is given by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) and was named to recognize John Choma, who…
May 5, 2025
Natcast, the entity designated by the Department of Commerce to operate the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), has announced its inaugural Technical Advisory Board (TAB). This advisory board, established by the CHIPS and Science Act, brings together top experts to shape the NSTC’s research agenda, driving U.S. innovation and…
May 2, 2025