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May 20, 2025

BPEC wins four Best Presentation Awards at IEEE APEC 2025

Four researchers from the Berkeley Power and Energy Center (BPEC) received prestigious awards for outstanding oral and poster presentations at the 40th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2025), held in Atlanta, GA. APEC is the premier conference in power electronics, attracting leading experts worldwide. Syed Tahmid Mahbub, a second-year…

May 13, 2025

Miki Lustig wins ISMRM Gold Medal for pioneering work in MRI

EECS Professor Miki Lustig has won a Gold Medal Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the highest honor bestowed by the society. Lustig was recognized “for the development of compressed sensing methods for MRI acquisition and reconstruction,” a groundbreaking contribution that has significantly advanced…

May 7, 2025

Graduate Student Syed Tahmid Mahbub Awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship

EECS congratulates graduate student Syed Tahmid Mahbub on being named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. This highly competitive fellowship is awarded annually to outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants who demonstrate exceptional potential to make significant contributions to American society, culture,…

May 6, 2025

Jan Rabaey to Receive the John Choma Education Award

UC Berkeley EECS Professor Emeritus Jan Rabaey was selected as the winner of the John Choma Education Award for “for contributions to education and leadership in integrated circuits and systems.” This award is given by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) and was named to recognize John Choma, who was…

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May 5, 2025

EECS faculty and alumni named to inaugural NSTC Technical Advisory Board

Natcast, the entity designated by the Department of Commerce to operate the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), has announced its inaugural Technical Advisory Board (TAB). This advisory board, established by the CHIPS and Science Act, brings together top experts to shape the NSTC’s research agenda, driving U.S. innovation and leadership…

May 1, 2025

Armando Fox and Dan Garcia receive Leon A. Henkin Citation

EECS Professors Armando Fox and Dan Garcia have been awarded the prestigious Leon A. Henkin Citation by UC Berkeley’s Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Campus Climate (DECC). Named after Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Leon A. Henkin, who founded the Committee on Special Scholarships in 1963 to support students from…

April 28, 2025

Dawn Song elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

UC Berkeley EECS Professor Dawn Song has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining five other UC Berkeley faculty members honored this year, the Academy announced in a recent press release. Song is a leading expert in computer security and privacy, with research spanning software…

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April 24, 2025

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

In Frank Baum’s original novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City is said to be such a brilliant shade of green that visitors must wear green-tinted glasses to protect their eyes from “the brightness and glory” of the city. The glasses are one of the…

April 24, 2025

UC Berkeley celebrates opening of Grimes Engineering Center

Students, faculty, staff, key benefactors and the legendary Oski the Bear came together Monday for a festive celebration of the opening of the Grimes Engineering Center, a new hub on the north side of campus. UC Berkeley Engineering marked this exciting milestone — just two years after the building’s groundbreaking…

April 17, 2025

Broadcom expands support for UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab

Following VMware’s long-standing sponsorship, Broadcom is deepening its collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab through a $4 million gift. This expanded collaboration reinforces a shared commitment to innovation and interoperability, building on both organizations’ histories of addressing complex industry challenges through cutting-edge research. The Sky Computing Lab, and its…