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February 3, 2025
Boubacar Kante named Optica Fellow
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…

January 29, 2025
Using AI, these robots learn complicated skills with startling accuracy
At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine’s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip. Through what might have…

January 27, 2025
Alexandre Bayen receives honorary doctorate from TU Delft
EECS Professor Alexandre Bayen has been awarded an honorary doctorate by TU Delft. The honorary doctorate was conferred during the 183rd Dies Natalis celebrations, which this year focused on the theme “Making Sense of Mobility.” “Alexandre Bayen studies the collaborative autonomy of manually and automatically driven vehicles. His research is…

January 22, 2025
Stuart Russell wins AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been awarded the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Award for the Benefit of Humanity recognizes AI advancements that have a positive, lasting impact on human life—protecting, enhancing, and improving humanity in…
Media Mentions

January 30, 2025
NBC News: Ion Stoica on DeepSeek
EECS Professor Ion Stoica discusses DeepSeek with Gadi Schwartz on NBC News NOW.

January 17, 2025
Ion Stoica featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast
EECS Professor and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica is featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast.

January 14, 2025
Ken Goldberg featured on Armchair Expert
EECS Professor Ken Goldberg is featured as a guest on Armchair Expert. “Ken joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being born in Nigeria, growing up in rough and tumble City of Brotherly Love, and on how that taught him how to not take things lying down. Ken and Dax address…

December 6, 2024
The UC Berkeley Project That Is the AI Industry’s Obsession
EECS grad students Anastasios Angelopoulos (advisors: Jordan and Malik) and Wei-Lin Chiang (advisor: Stoica) were profiled by The Wall Street Journal for their work on Chatbot Arena.