September 12, 2025
UC Berkeley EECS is proud to announce the creation of the Vigyan Singhal Fund for Chip Design Education, established through the generosity of alumnus Vigyan Singhal (M.S. ‘94, Ph.D. ‘95 EECS), now Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA. The fund will provide sustained support for instruction and the educational…
July 7, 2025
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),…
June 27, 2025
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…