May 28, 2025
EECS Teaching Professors Dan Garcia and Brian Harvey have been awarded the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced today in a press release. Garcia and Harvey were recognized “for their advocacy of and advances in education to bring the beauty and joy…
May 21, 2025
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Ninety researchers from around the world were named in this year’s cohort of fellows. “Their achievements represent the very best of scientific endeavour, from basic discovery to research with…
May 20, 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
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
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
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…
May 5, 2025
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
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
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…
April 24, 2025
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…