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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…

Visualization of data-parallel processor layout results

July 7, 2025

EECS Researchers win Most Influential Paper Award from Design Automation Conference

EECS researchers Jonathan Bachrach, John Wawrzynek, Krste Asanovic, and their students and collaborators Huy Vo, Brian Richards, Yunsup Lee, Andrew Waterman, and Rimas Aviženis have received the Design Automation Conference’s (DAC) Most Influential Paper Award for the decade 2010–2020.Their groundbreaking paper, “Chisel: Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language” (2012),…

Sagar Karandikar accepts the award at ACM SIGARCH

June 27, 2025

Sagar Karandikar wins 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award

EECS Assistant Professor Sagar Karandikar has been awarded the 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award. This prestigious honor recognizes exceptional doctoral research in the field of computer architecture.Karandikar was recognized “for advancing the state-of-the-art in agile hardware/software co-design tools and deploying them at a hyperscaler to architect custom…

June 27, 2025

EECS researchers win Best Robot Learning Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2025

Professors Ken Goldberg, John Kubiatowicz, and their team of students and collaborators: Kaiyuan Chen, Letian Fu, David Huang, Yanxiang Zhang, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Huang Huang, Kush Hari, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ted Xiao, and Pannag R Sanketi, have received the Best Robot Learning Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics…

June 26, 2025

Prabal Dutta named Ohio State Distinguished Alumni

Prabal Dutta, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Excellence from the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. This award honors alumni who have demonstrated significant achievement in academia through contributions to teaching, research, or education.

A humanoid robot.

June 26, 2025

Berkeley engineers develop customizable, 3D-printed robot for tech newbies

As an undergraduate student, Yufeng Chi (B.S.’23 EECS) was captivated by humanoid and legged robots. Eager to learn more, he would watch YouTube videos and dive into class projects, but getting hands-on experience and tinkering on his own was not easy. “I was interested in building my own version of…

June 10, 2025

Michael Harrison has passed away

EECS Professor Emeritus Michael A. Harrison passed away on Saturday, June 7. He was 89. Professor Harrison earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1963. That same year, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor and spent most of his academic…

June 5, 2025

Sewon Min receives Honorable Mention for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Sewon Min, who will join UC Berkeley EECS as an assistant professor in July 2025, has received an honorable mention for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. She was recognized for her dissertation, “Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models,” which investigates how large language models (LLMs) learn from their…