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July 18, 2025

Alvin Cheung receives ACSIC Rock Star Award

CS Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Rock Star Award for Mid-Career Investigators by the Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (ACSIC). This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to computing within 12 years of completing their most recent computing-related degree. The ACSIC Rock Star Award…

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July 15, 2025

Translating Legacy Code for a Safer Future: DARPA Backs Effort to Convert C to Rust

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $5 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program. The team’s goal is…

July 10, 2025

Jan Rabaey receives 2026 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits

EECS Professor Emeritus Jan Rabaey has been selected to receive the 2026 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. This prestigious award recognizes his outstanding contributions to the field of solid-state circuits, as measured by his impact on society, innovation, and leadership in the field. Rabaey was cited “for…

July 8, 2025

EECS researchers win MLArchSys Best Paper Award

EECS Professors Alvin Cheung and Sophia Shao, and their students Charles Hong and Sahil Batia, have won the Best Paper Award at the Machine Learning for Computer Architecture and Systems (MLArchSys) Workshop, held at ISCA 2025. Their award-winning paper, titled “Autocomp: LLM-Driven Code Optimization for Tensor Accelerators”, presents a novel…

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