January 23, 2025
Division: CS
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…
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.
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…
January 14, 2025
Ken Goldberg featured on Armchair Expert
EECS Professor Ken Goldberg is featured as a guest on Armchair Expert. “Ken joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being born in Nigeria, growing up in rough and tumble City of Brotherly Love, and on how that taught him how to not take things lying down. Ken and Dax address…
January 9, 2025
In Memoriam: Michael Clancy
Professor Emeritus Michael J. Clancy, a beloved member of the UC Berkeley EECS community, passed away on December 26, 2024, at the age of 75. Professor Clancy joined UC Berkeley as a lecturer in 1977, where he quickly became a cornerstone of the Computer Science teaching community. He taught virtually…
January 8, 2025
Jelani Nelson considers human thought with computer science tools
CDSS profiles CS Division Chair Jelani Nelson about his research and philosophy on coding, education and curricula reform.
December 13, 2024
Pilawa Group wins Best Paper Award at IEEE-ECCE Europe
EECS graduate student Francesca Giardine and alumna Kelly Fernandez (Ph.D. “23), alongside EECS Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, have been honored with the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Expo – Europe (ECCE Europe) for their pioneering work in energy conversion for solar applications. Presented at ECCE Europe…
December 12, 2024
Ana Arias elevated to IEEE Fellow
Ana Arias, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Chair of the Electrical Engineering (EE) Division, has been elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow. This honor is bestowed upon individuals who demonstrate “unusual distinction in the profession,” recognizing their exceptional contributions to the field of engineering. The…