October 17, 2024
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
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…
October 15, 2024
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…
October 10, 2024
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),…
October 9, 2024
EECS Assistant Professor Preeya Khana is one of two UC Berkeley computational biology and neuroscience scholars who received the New Innovator Award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency announced.
October 3, 2024
The oral history of William “Bill” Oldham, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences, is now online in the UC Berkeley Library’s digital collections. Oldham joined the faculty in 1964, where he was an expert on process technology, as well as the co-founder and…
October 3, 2024
Every day someone asks Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science and in the School of Information, to review images, audio and videos to determine if they are real or fake. As one of the world’s…
September 30, 2024
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…
September 26, 2024
Three projects in the California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub (NW-AI-Hub) aimed at dramatically improving the energy efficiency of artificial intelligence hardware are getting a $16.3 million boost from the Department of Defense.
September 24, 2024
Verified Voting celebrated its 20th anniversary with a gathering that honored its efforts in securing elections. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi presented an award to Board Chair and CS alumna Barbara Simons (CS Ph.D. ‘81) for her dedication to election integrity. Simons emphasized the importance of “election hygiene” and urged…