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July 28, 2025

BPEC Researchers win two Best Paper Awards at IEEE COMPEL 2024

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

Qinghua Ding wins IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

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

Four EECS Faculty win inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards

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

Alvin Cheung receives ACSIC Rock Star Award

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…

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July 15, 2025

Translating Legacy Code for a Safer Future: DARPA Backs Effort to Convert C to Rust

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $5 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program. The team’s goal is…

July 10, 2025

Jan Rabaey receives 2026 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits

EECS Professor Emeritus Jan Rabaey has been selected to receive the 2026 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. This prestigious award recognizes his outstanding contributions to the field of solid-state circuits, as measured by his impact on society, innovation, and leadership in the field. Rabaey was cited “for…

July 8, 2025

EECS researchers win MLArchSys Best Paper Award

EECS Professors Alvin Cheung and Sophia Shao, and their students Charles Hong and Sahil Batia, have won the Best Paper Award at the Machine Learning for Computer Architecture and Systems (MLArchSys) Workshop, held at ISCA 2025. Their award-winning paper, titled “Autocomp: LLM-Driven Code Optimization for Tensor Accelerators”, presents a novel…

Visualization of data-parallel processor layout results

July 7, 2025

EECS Researchers win Most Influential Paper Award from Design Automation Conference

EECS researchers Jonathan Bachrach, John Wawrzynek, Krste Asanovic, and their students and collaborators Huy Vo, Brian Richards, Yunsup Lee, Andrew Waterman, and Rimas Aviženis have received the Design Automation Conference’s (DAC) Most Influential Paper Award for the decade 2010–2020.Their groundbreaking paper, “Chisel: Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language” (2012),…

Sagar Karandikar accepts the award at ACM SIGARCH

June 27, 2025

Sagar Karandikar wins 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award

EECS Assistant Professor Sagar Karandikar has been awarded the 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award. This prestigious honor recognizes exceptional doctoral research in the field of computer architecture.Karandikar was recognized “for advancing the state-of-the-art in agile hardware/software co-design tools and deploying them at a hyperscaler to architect custom…