August 23, 2017
EE alumnus Nima Jafarian (B.S. ’04) has been appointed Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at PowerSphyr, one of the world’s most innovative providers of wireless power technology. He is responsible for leading product management and marketing for SkyCurrent™, a ground-breaking wireless power system which combines near-field and…
August 15, 2017
U.C. Berkeley has been ranked best in the world in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and second best in Computer Science and Engineering, in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU), an assessment of 500 top institutions around the globe by ShanghaiRanking. EE’s score was 333.5, beating out Stanford …
August 14, 2017
Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine, Prof. Pieter Abbeel, and graduate student Chelsea Finn are featured in a CSO article highlighting research they presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). The research was done in partnership with the NVIDIA AI Labs (NVAIL) programme. Levine’s team wants to help intelligent…
July 27, 2017
EE alumnus Jonathan S. Maltz (Ph.D. EE ’99) is serving as the lead researcher and Chief Scientific Advisor during the clinical trials of HeartSentry, a non-invasive diagnostic tool to measure and monitor cardiovascular health. HeartSentry is being developed at Lexington Biosciences, a development-stage medical device company in Vancouver, Canada. …
July 26, 2017
EE Profs Claire Tomlin, Costas Spanos and Connie Chang-Hasnain, and CS Prof. David Culler, are featured in a Berkeley Engineer article titled “Smart moves: California’s next-gen infrastructure,” which describes current UC Berkeley research projects that promise to transform the way we live. “What’s enabling these infrastructure changes is our…
July 26, 2017
Bioinspired robot, Salto-1P, is featured in an IEEE Spectrum article titled “Salto-1P Is the Most Amazing Jumping Robot We’ve Ever Seen.” Born in Prof. Ronald Fearing’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, Salto-1P is the most recent incarnation of the Saltatorial Locomotion on Terrain Obstacles (Salto) robot which was pronounced the…
July 26, 2017
Somayeh Sojoudi has been officially…
July 20, 2017
EE Prof. Ali Javey and his research into “Earables,” are profiled in a Digital Trends article titled 3D printed ear-mounted wearable will Monitor your body’s core temperature. Earables represent a class of ‘structural electronics’ where sensors and electronics are embedded in the fabricated structure itself. “Monitoring core body temperature…
July 20, 2017
EE Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller will make a presentation on the theme of Reverse-Engineering the Brain at this year’s Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS). Muller is co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies, a company which designs medical devices for the treatment of incurable neurological conditions. “We can use devices that…
July 14, 2017
Professors Jose Carmena and Michel Maharbiz have won a 2017 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award for “Neural Dust: an ultrasonic, low power, extreme miniature technology for completely wireless and untethered neural recordings in the brain.” These annual awards come with a $200K prize and are aimed at advancing the…