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October 25, 2024

Alumnus Yasser Khan named Packard Fellow

EECS alumnus Yasser Khan (Ph.D. ’18, Advisor: Ana Arias) has been honored by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation as one of the 2024 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. This prestigious fellowship provides recipients with the freedom to explore innovative ideas and advance cutting-edge technology through unrestricted funding and…

October 17, 2024

Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu receive Teaching Effectiveness Award

EECS grads Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu have received Teaching Effectiveness Awards for 2024. The Graduate Division’s Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs honors those who devise solutions to teaching or learning problems they have identified in their classes and write them up in a one-page essay. These essays are published…

October 17, 2024

Berkeley researchers receive ARPA-H awards

EECS Associate Professor Rikky Muller is part of a team led by Carnegie Mellon University that will create implantable bioelectronic devices to address obesity and diabetes through a six-year project called RX On-site Generation Using Electronics (ROGUE). ROGUE will precisely stimulate cells within a device to produce…

A line of people forms in front of ballot booths. The words

October 15, 2024

Public trust in U.S. elections is decreasing. But should it be?

Recent polls show public trust in the integrity of U.S. elections is decreasing, largely among Republicans. But this doesn’t signal that our elections are getting less reliable, UC Berkeley scholars said. In fact, elections in the U.S. are more secure and the results are…

Cheung receives the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize.

October 10, 2024

Alvin Cheung wins Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize

CS Associate Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize. Cheung was cited for his groundbreaking work on “verified lifting,” applying ideas from program synthesis to dramatically improve the end-to-end performance of database-backed applications. The Dahl-Nygaard Prizes, founded in 2004 by the Association Internationale Pour les Technologies Objets (AITO),…

The 3D rendering of mitochondria overlaid by the motion map. The 3D volume was captured by a 3D SIM microscope in the Biological Imaging Facility and reconstructed by NSTM using the compute cluster from the Advanced Bioimaging Center. (Image courtesy of Ruiming Cao)

September 30, 2024

Bringing clarity to computational imaging

Berkeley researchers have developed a method to improve temporal resolution for Imaging microscopic samples. In a study published in Nature Methods, they demonstrated a new computational imaging tool, dubbed the neural space-time model (NSTM), that uses a small, lightweight neural network to reduce motion artifacts and solve for the…