Division: EE

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…

College of Engineering Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu gives remarks at the bottom during the launch event.

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…

Sky researchers give thumbs up, standing around the DGX 200.

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…

February 18, 2025

Natacha Crooks named Sloan Fellow

EECS Assistant Professor Natacha Crooks has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, granted annually to “honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders,” according to an announcement issued today (Feb. 18).  …