September 23, 2024
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 20, 2024
Sehat Sutardja ((M.S.’85, Ph.D.’88 EECS), a pioneer of the modern semiconductor industry, has died at the age of 63. The co-founder of Marvell Technology, he helped foster a culture of innovation at Berkeley Engineering through his generous support.
September 19, 2024
Berkeley Lab: EECS professor Sayeef Salahuddin is part of a team working to fast-track the development of ultra-low-power microelectronics…
September 12, 2024
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
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
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…
August 21, 2024
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…
August 19, 2024
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
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…
August 7, 2024
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…