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September 26, 2024

AI hardware hub awarded $16.3M from DOD

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.

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi presents CS Alumna Barbara Simons with an award.

September 24, 2024

Alumna Barbara Simons honored by Verified Voting

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…

September 23, 2024

Three CS graduate students honored as Siebel Scholars

Three CS grad students have been named Siebel Scholars for the class of 2025, each receiving a $35,000 grant for their research. Cade Gordon, Jessica Lin, and Oliver Yu were recognized for their academic excellence and leadership.  Their work spans areas such as protein…

September 23, 2024

UC Berkeley to launch compute hub with California Education Learning Lab

UC Berkeley experts received a $1.5 million grant from the California Education Learning Lab (Learning Lab) to launch a first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities. “This approach ensures that the data science education we provide across California prepares students really well by using the same…

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…