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…
January 27, 2025
EECS Professor Alexandre Bayen has been awarded an honorary doctorate by TU Delft. The honorary doctorate was conferred during the 183rd Dies Natalis celebrations, which this year focused on the theme “Making Sense of Mobility.” “Alexandre Bayen studies the collaborative autonomy of manually and automatically driven vehicles. His research is…
January 22, 2025
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been awarded the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Award for the Benefit of Humanity recognizes AI advancements that have a positive, lasting impact on human life—protecting, enhancing, and improving humanity in…
January 17, 2025
EECS Associate Professor Sergey Levine has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Four alumni were also named among PECASE recipients this year: Dorsa Sadigh (Ph.D. ’17, advisors: Sastry and Seshia); Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18, advisors: Abbeel and Levine); Tamara Broderick (Statistics Ph.D. ’14, advisor:…
January 17, 2025
EECS Professor Emeritus Robert K. Brayton has passed away. He was 91. A trained electrical engineer and mathematician, Bob Brayton was a pioneer in logic synthesis and formal verification. His career spanned multiple decades, during which he made groundbreaking contributions to the field of electrical engineering. For the first 26…
January 9, 2025
Professor Emeritus Michael J. Clancy, a beloved member of the UC Berkeley EECS community, passed away on December 26, 2024, at the age of 75. Professor Clancy joined UC Berkeley as a lecturer in 1977, where he quickly became a cornerstone of the Computer Science teaching community. He taught virtually…