Engineers create game-changing metalens that breaks records in performance
06/25/20 — World's thinnest, most efficient flat lens delivers focal power over broad band of light
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Robot see, robot do, AI-style
06/17/20 Engadget — Berkeley Engineering researchers, in collaboration with an Intel team, have taught a surgical robot to suture by showing it surgical videos of actual doctors.
BerkeleyDB wins 2020 SIGMOD Systems Award
06/15/20 — The creators of BerkeleyDB have won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery SIGMOD Systems Award for their "seminal work" on the revolutionary software library.
Using neural dust to eavesdrop on our organs
06/11/20 — In this TEDMED talk, EECS professor Michel Maharbiz describes using extremely miniaturized implants to get a closer look at organs in real time
Materials sciences professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh named to Royal Society
04/29/20 — Ramesh has created nanosized materials that can power small electrical devices with minimal amounts of energy
Students’ shoebox-sized satellite gets green light for launch
04/29/20 — Team from campus aerospace club, led by EECS sophomore, gets NASA support for QubeSat launch next year
Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale
04/22/20 — A team of researchers have managed to grow ultra-thin material on silicon that can power small electronic devices
Fighting back against coronavirus misinformation
04/16/20 — Hany Farid is conducting a major survey of people to see how much they believe conspiracies about COVID-19
Low-cost, readily deployable respirators could help frontline healthcare workers
04/15/20 — Engineers develop powered air-purifying respirators that can be rapidly manufactured using widely available components
Reinventing cybersecurity
04/14/20 — Researchers are advancing blockchain and encryption methods to protect personal data and make sharing it more secure.
Learning to learn
04/14/20 — Researchers are using deep reinforcement learning techniques to equip robots with cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities.
Good for the image
04/14/20 — Using a type of deep learning known as a fully convolutional neural network, a new computer algorithm can recognize abnormal CT scans.
Controlling ventilators from a distance
04/02/20 — Professor Michel Maharbiz is working with medical device makers to allow hospital staff to remotely monitor and adjust patients' ventilators
Getting the right equipment to the right people
04/02/20 — Professor Bin Yu and her team are developing models to connect hospitals with needed supplies
Energy-saving AI is coming for your office thermostat
04/01/20 Wired — EECS professor Costas Spanos thinks you should track your workers and hand over the lights and temperature controls to artificial intelligence
Using AI to detect and fight the coronavirus
03/05/20 VentureBeat — UC Berkeley robotics lab director Ken Goldberg predicts that if COVID-19 becomes a pandemic, it may lead to more robots in more environments
Ruzena Bajcsy honored for ‘upending science’
02/27/20 Popular Mechanics — Popular Mechanics magazine named EECS professor Ruzena Bajcsy as one of 37 women who "upended science, tech, and engineering for the better." Bajcsy, who conducted pioneering work in robotics and artificial intelligence, joins a list that includes Katherine Johnson of NASA and Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie
Researchers develop novel way to shrink light to detect ultra-tiny substances
02/20/20 — The research could lead to the development of ultra-sensitive devices that can quickly detect pathogens in human blood.
Two engineering faculty named Sloan Research Fellows
02/12/20 — Sanjam Garg, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS), and Aditya Parameswaran, who has a joint appointment in EECS and the School of Information, were among nine Berkeley faculty members to win the prestigious research honor.
Berkeley’s data science division gets fresh new name
02/05/20 — The Division of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS) is the permanent name of Berkeley's interdisciplinary division launched in November 2018.