April 10, 2024
As companies build ever more powerful AI systems — with capabilities that rival or even exceed those of humans — research into AI safety is lagging far behind. “I think the only way forward is to figure out how to make AI safety a condition of doing business,” said UC…
April 2, 2024
EECS Ph.D. students Myoungseok Kim and Federico Mora Rocha have won Outstanding Graduate Student Peer Mentor Awards. Conferred by The Graduate Assembly, the awards recognize commitment to helping fellow students succeed and exemplifying the university’s core values of effective mentoring. Recipients are nominated by faculty colleagues and peers. Kim’s primary…
March 28, 2024
EECS Associate Professor Anca Dragan was named Head of AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind. Google DeepMind’s AI Safety and Alignment organization, founded in February, is responsible for developing new safeguards for Gemini models and aligning forthcoming models with human goals and values. “Google DeepMind is fairly unique in…
March 26, 2024
CS alumnus Hao Zhang, Ph.D. ‘07 (Advisor: Jitendra Malik) has gifted 1M to Berkeley EECS. The generous gift will establish an endowed professorship to support junior faculty. The Zhang Family Endowed Professorship was inspired by the role that Berkeley faculty played in his life: “The mentorship and support I received…
March 25, 2024
EE grad student Logan Horowitz and post-doc Nathan Miles Ellis, advised by Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, have received awards for outstanding technical presentations at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC)–the flagship conference in power electronics. Logan received a Best Presentation award for his work on a…
March 21, 2024
CZ Biohub: UC Berkeley scientists are taking brain-machine interfaces to a new level with support from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco.
March 20, 2024
Berkeley Math alumna Tandy Warnow (Ph.D. ’91) has won the International Society for Computational Biology’s Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award. The annual award recognizes a member of the computational biology community, more than two decades post-degree, who has made major contributions to the field. Warnow is currently a professor, and the…
March 19, 2024
EECS and Astronomy Professor Emeritus William “Jack” Welch died on March 10, 2024. He was 90. Welch was a pioneer in molecular radio astronomy, who together with Charles Townes used a radio telescope to make the first detections of ammonia and water in interstellar space. This…
March 18, 2024
EE Professor Boubacar Kante has won the 2024 Bakar Prize. The prize is given annually to former Bakar Fellows and provides additional resources to ensure a successful transition of their technology from academic research to industry applications. Now in its 12th year, the Bakar Fellows Programs has supported 74 Faculty…
March 12, 2024
EECS Associate Professor Björn Hartmann has been elected to the Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Academy. The SIGCHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to shaping the field of human-computer interaction. Hartmann co-founded the CITRIS Invention Lab in 2012 and previously…