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November 25, 2024
EECS graduate students Rahul Iyer and Tahmid Mahbub awarded IEEE INTELEC-2024 Best Paper Award
EECS graduate students Rahul Iyer and Tahmid Mahbub have received the prestigious IEEE INTELEC-2024 Best Paper Award for their innovative work on energy systems in communications. The IEEE International Communications Energy Conference (INTELEC) 2024 is a leading forum dedicated to the technical and informational exchange on energy systems for communications,…
November 14, 2024
Charlene Duncan receives Excellence in Advising & Student Services Award
Charlene Duncan, CS Scholars program director, has been honored with an Excellence in Advising & Student Services Award at UC Berkeley. The Outstanding Advisor or Student Services Staff Award is presented to individuals “with more than three years of experience working in advising or student support at Berkeley whose primary…
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…
Media Mentions
November 25, 2024
Election Forecasts Try to Go Beyond the Polls. Are They Helping?
UC Berkeley EECS Professor Benjamin Recht was recently featured in The New York Times for his critique of election forecasting models, emphasizing the complex decisions behind these predictions. His insights spotlight the intersection of statistical modeling and societal impact.
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 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…
September 24, 2024
Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth
“Founded by Berkeley PhD students Sarah Wooders and Charles Packer, this is a highly anticipated AI startup launch. That’s because it’s a child of Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab and is the commercial entity of the popular MemGPT open source project.”