September 10, 2025
It was in Birge Hall, adjacent to the Campanile, where he got his first taste of video games in the mid-’70s before receiving his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) in 1976. There, he’d hover over an ancient IBM 704 machine in the lower depths of the physics…
August 27, 2025
In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist and EECS Professor Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency.
August 25, 2025
This fall, UC Berkeley Engineering welcomes 11 new faculty members to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, which is shared with the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society.
August 13, 2025
CS Assistant Professor Serina Chang, who joined UC Berkeley EECS in July, has been honored with the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) Dissertation Award for her thesis, “Computational Methods for Human Networks and High-Stakes Decisions.” Chang’s work sits at the intersection of AI…
August 4, 2025
“Here we have an amazing example of how generative AI – with humans in the loop – can be used for good, at a scale that’s unprecedented, for a task that’s never been done before and for societal impact,” said Aditya Parameswaran, an associate professor at UC…
July 31, 2025
Jennifer Chayes, Ion Stoica, Dawn Song, and Emma Pierson are co-authors on the article “Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy” by Rishi Bommasani et al, published by the journal Science on July 31. The article proposes policy mechanisms to address the opportunities and challenges of “increasingly powerful AI.”…
July 28, 2025
Berkeley Power and Energy Center (BPEC) researchers have received two of the three Best Paper Awards at the 2024 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling of Power Electronics (COMPEL). EECS graduate student Roderick Bayliss III and EECS Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski’s paper, “An Input Inductor Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Utilizing a…
July 24, 2025
EECS Ph.D. student Qinghua Ding has been awarded the 2025 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). This prestigious award recognizes outstanding student-authored papers presented at ISIT, one of the premier conferences in information theory. Ding was selected for the paper,…
July 21, 2025
EECS Assistant Professors Natacha Crooks, Sagar Karandikar, Amy Pavel, and Rishabh Iyer have been selected to receive inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards. This prestigious award recognizes early-career faculty whose research is advancing the frontiers of machine learning and systems. Each award includes $100,000 in unrestricted research funding.
July 18, 2025
CS Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Rock Star Award for Mid-Career Investigators by the Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (ACSIC). This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to computing within 12 years of completing their most recent computing-related degree. The ACSIC Rock Star Award…