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February 28, 2025
BPEC students win First Best Place Demo Award at IEEE ECCE 2024
Graduate students Logan Horowitz, S. Tahmid Mahbub, Jiarui Zou, and Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski have received a First Best Place Demo Award at the recent 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE). Their innovative thermal test vehicle design provides a dynamic platform that simulates the heat generation of high-performance GPUs…

February 25, 2025
TCIP Launch Event Sets Course for New Center
The Technology Competitiveness and Industrial Policy Center (TCIP) officially launched on February 13 at UC Berkeley with discussions led by founder Mark Liu (M.S. ’80/Ph.D. ’83), faculty director S. Shankar Sastry and other university leaders like College of Engineering Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu. The event featured experts from top institutions…

February 21, 2025
Sky Computing Lab receives NVIDIA DGX B200 for AI research
This week, the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley EECS became the first research institution in the nation to receive NVIDIA’s cutting-edge DGX B200 system. The DGX B200 is a powerful tool for advancing AI research, designed to handle a wide range of AI workloads, including…

February 19, 2025
New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes
UC Berkeley’s new Engineering Center has been named after alumni Mark and Stephanie Grimes, honoring their contributions to the College of Engineering. The building’s name honors Michael (B.S.’87 EECS) and Janelle Grimes (B.A.’86 PoliSci), who met as undergraduates at UC Berkeley. Michael Grimes would go on to become a successful…
Media Mentions

March 17, 2025
NPR: Researchers are rushing to build AI-powered robots. But will they work?
EECS Professor Ken Goldberg and EECS Alumna Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18) discuss the latest advancements in AI and their integration into robotics.

February 12, 2025
20 UC Berkeley alumni, students and faculty shine on Forbes 30 Under 30 list
EECS alumni named in Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

January 30, 2025
NBC News: Ion Stoica on DeepSeek
EECS Professor Ion Stoica discusses DeepSeek with Gadi Schwartz on NBC News NOW.

January 17, 2025
Ion Stoica featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast
EECS Professor and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica is featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast.