March 26, 2026
EECS Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski has received the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Technical Achievement award for Integration and Miniaturization of Switching Power Converters. The award recognizes him “for fundamental and practical contributions to hybrid switched-capacitor and flying capacitor multi-level power conversion technologies.”…
December 5, 2025
Dr. Rahul Iyer and Dr. Yicheng Zhu, members of EECS Professor Robert Pilawa Podgurski’s research group, have received the PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award for their outstanding doctoral research and presentations at the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) conference. The PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk…
June 26, 2025
Prabal Dutta, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Excellence from the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. This award honors alumni who have demonstrated significant achievement in academia through contributions to teaching, research, or education.
February 3, 2025
EECS Professor Boubacar Kante has been elected as an Optica Fellow, one of the highest honors in the field of optics and photonics. Kante was recognized “for creating and demonstrating new concepts in modern electromagnetics, particularly a path toward very-high-power, broad-area single-mode semiconductor lasers.” Optica Fellows are selected based on…
September 26, 2024
Three projects in the California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub (NW-AI-Hub) aimed at dramatically improving the energy efficiency of artificial intelligence hardware are getting a $16.3 million boost from the Department of Defense.