Two EECS professors recognized with NSF CAREER Awards
05/02/23 — Honors for Gireeja Ranade and Yakun Sophia Shao are among the agency’s most competitive for early career professionals
Electrical engineering
A path to resourceful autonomous agents
05/01/23 — In latest AI lecture, EECS professor Sergey Levine discusses how advances in offline reinforcement learning can enable machine learning systems to learn to make more optimal decisions from data
ChatGPT architect, Berkeley alum John Schulman on his journey with AI
04/20/23 — Schulman talks about why he chose Berkeley for graduate school, the allure of towel-folding robots, and what he sees for the future of artificial general intelligence
Chancellor Christ, Dean Liu chart future for semiconductor industry
04/20/23 — Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, joined Chancellor Carol Christ in an open letter outlining plans to expand and diversify the nation’s semiconductor workforce
When will cars be fully self-driving?
04/18/23 The Wall Street Journal — Wall Street Journal: UC Berkeley EECS professor Alexandre Bayen and other experts weigh in on what the future holds for autonomous vehicles
Deep RL at scale: Fleet of robots sorts waste in office buildings
04/13/23 — Researchers show how deep reinforcement learning enables robots to improve continually in the real world, while doing an actual job
To more effectively sequester biomass and carbon, just add salt
04/11/23 — Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gases for thousands of years
Berkeley engineer wins 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship
04/07/23 — Venkatesan Guruswami, a Chancellor’s Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, will use the fellowship to develop resource-efficient approaches to solving computational problems
Stuart Russell calls for new approach for AI, a ‘civilization-ending’ technology
04/07/23 CDSS — CDSS: UC Berkeley computer science professor and leading AI expert is urging companies to rethink how they’re building AI and calling on countries to regulate it to ensure it furthers human interests
Jitendra Malik presents on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence
03/24/23 — Berkeley Talks transcript: The Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences examines the evolution of artificial intelligence, part of the Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures
Berkeley advisors share advice with students amid tech layoffs
03/21/23 — CDSS: This year’s data and computer science graduates are urged to embrace a more nuanced job market view
Berkeley Engineering faculty win 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award
03/17/23 — Joshua Hug, EECS teaching professor, and Abigail De Kosnik, director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, are among five to receive the prestigious honor
AI lectures at Berkeley to explore possibilities, implications of ChatGPT
03/10/23 — Artificial intelligence experts from Berkeley and beyond will explore the ramifications of ChatGPT on science and society in a spring lecture series
Rikky Muller and Jaijeet Roychowdhury named 2023 Bakar Prize winners
02/22/23 — Electrical engineering and computer sciences professors among four Berkeley faculty to be awarded additional resources to help translate their discoveries into real-world solutions
Hari Balakrishnan awarded 2023 Marconi Prize
02/22/23 — Berkeley Engineering alum, innovator and entrepreneur honored for the broad societal impact of his discoveries in mobile sensing, networking and distributed systems
Angjoo Kanazawa named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow
02/15/23 — Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences is among six young Berkeley faculty honored for their creativity, innovation, research accomplishments and potential to become a leader in their field
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award
02/08/23 — Berkeley engineering professor honored for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that powers today’s electronic devices
Energized for real-world impact
01/25/23 — Founded by Berkeley Engineering alumni, Gridware uses sensors to tackle the threat of wildfires
From Ethiopia to Berkeley and back again
01/17/23 — EECS Ph.D. student Tsegereda Esatu, a UC-HBCU Initiative fellow, shares her educational journey and her hopes for bringing semiconductor research to students in Ethiopia
David Hodges, former dean of engineering and pioneer in integrated circuit design, dies at 85
11/29/22 — His work contributed to the rapid growth of the tech industry