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September 12, 2024

Laura Waller awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal

EECS Professor Laura Waller has been awarded a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal. The Max Planck-Humboldt Medal, awarded jointly by the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, recognizes unique individuals’ potential for the future as well as their innovative research projects. Waller was cited as a pioneer of computational…

September 11, 2024

SPIRIT Receives Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 Symposium on VLSI Circuits

A paper by Adelson Chua, Aviral Pandey, Ryan Kaveh, Sina Faraji Alamouti, and Justin Doong, led by EECS Associate Professor Rikky Muller, has won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits. The VLSI Symposium is a global conference dedicated to semiconductor…

September 3, 2024

Jessica Boles wins IEEE Power Electronics Prize Letter Award

EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has won the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Power Electronics Prize Letter Award for her groundbreaking paper, “A Piezoelectric-Resonator-Based DC-DC Converter Demonstrating 1 kW/cm^3 Resonator Power Density.” TPEL is the leading journal in power electronics. The paper by Boles, Bonavia, Lang, and Perreault…

Twisting light with a micromachine.

August 21, 2024

World’s first micromachine twists 2D materials at will

In a study published today in Nature, researchers led by EECS Assistant Professor Yuan Cao demonstrated the world’s first micromachine that can twist 2D materials at will. The fingernail-sized, on-chip platform, called MEGA2D, uses microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to conduct voltage-controlled manipulation of 2D materials — which are only nanometers thick…

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August 19, 2024

Paul Gray wins NAE Simon Ramo Founders Award

EECS Professor Emeritus Paul Gray has won the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Simon Ramo Founders Award. The Simon Ramo Founders Award, established in 1965, is one of the NAE’s highest honors. The award recognizes an outstanding member who embodies the Academy’s ideals through exceptional achievement in their professional, educational,…

August 9, 2024

Alexandre Bayen honored with three IEEE awards

EECS Professor Alex Bayen will receive multiple IEEE awards for his work in transportation this year. Following the MegaVandertest large-scale mixed-autonomy traffic experiment conducted by the CIRCLES consortium in 2022 under the leadership of Alex Bayen, the project has been honored with the 2024 IEEE…

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August 7, 2024

Dozing at the wheel? Not with these fatigue-detecting earbuds

UC Berkeley researchers have created earpieces that identify brain activity associated with relaxation and drowsiness. “I was inspired when I bought my first pair of Apple’s AirPods in 2017. I immediately thought, ‘What an amazing platform for neural recording,’” said study senior author Rikky Muller, an associate professor of electrical…

August 6, 2024

Trevor Darrell receives ICML Test-of-Time Award

EECS Professor Trevor Darrell and his team have been awarded the prestigious Test-of-Time Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) for their 2014 paper, “DeCAF: A Deep Convolutional Activation Feature for Generic Visual Recognition.” The award celebrates the lasting impact of a paper over the past 10 years…

July 17, 2024

Jessica Boles wins ARPA-E IGNIITE Early Career Award

EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has won an ARPA-E Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE) Early Career Award. Boles is one of 23 recipients receiving approximately $500,000 to advance their research and convert “disruptive ideas into impactful energy technologies.” The IGNIITE 2024 selectees were…