March 20, 2025
EECS Teaching Professor Dan Garcia has won the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Garcia is one of five UC Berkeley instructors who have been honored with the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest recognition for teaching excellence. Announced by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching, the award celebrates educators…
February 28, 2025
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
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
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
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
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). …
February 12, 2025
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Russell was recognized “for contributions to developments in artificial intelligence, including reasoning, probabilistic modeling, planning, safety, and education.” Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the…
February 12, 2025
EECS and Statistics Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School Michael I. Jordan has been named a Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate. The 17th edition of the award recognizes and rewards excellence in research and cultural creation, especially contributions that have achieved broad impact due to their originality and significance.
February 3, 2025
EECS Professor Boubacar Kante has been elected as an Optica Fellow, one of the highest honors in the field of optics and photonics. Kante was recognized “for creating and demonstrating new concepts in modern electromagnetics, particularly a path toward very-high-power, broad-area single-mode semiconductor lasers.” Optica Fellows are selected based on…
January 29, 2025
At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine’s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip. Through what might have…