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EECS

Schematic of three distinct lasers circling above flat optical antenna

Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas

02/25/21 — Berkeley engineers demonstrate new method of harnessing properties of lightwaves, enabling dramatic increase in the amount of data carried
Head shot of Alessandro Chiesa

Alessandro Chiesa among five UC Berkeley faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

02/16/21 — The two-year fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers
Pete Sonsini

Championing Berkeley-bred success

02/16/21 Calbears.com — Investor Pete Sonsini focuses on companies created at Cal, particularly data engineering startups
Shafi Goldwasser-portrait photo

Cryptography pioneer Shafi Goldwasser receives the Women in Science Award

02/11/21 Simons Institute — The L’Oréal-UNESCO honor for Goldwasser, director of the Simons Institute, comes on the International Day for Women & Girls in Science
Head shot of David Patterson

David Patterson receives prestigious Frontiers in Knowledge award

02/10/21 BBVA Foundation — The UC Berkeley Turing laureate shares the prize, which includes 400,000 euros, with Stanford's John Hennessy for turning computer architecture into a science and designing the processors that power today’s devices.
EECS graduate student Gloria Tumushabe using a laptop

Teaching young Ugandan women to code

02/03/21 — Gloria Tumushabe, a MasterCard Foundation Scholar in EECS, wanted to be more than an engineer; COVID gave her the chance
wearable biosensors in armband as hand makes gestures

Talk to the hand? New device can recognize gestures

12/21/20 — The armband, which combines wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence, could be used to control prosthetics or interact with electronic devices
Low-cost prototype of a robotic arm

UC Berkeley-led team receives $8.4M for AI-based approaches to cyber-physical systems

12/10/20 — Project proposes a novel approach that blends AI and machine learning with guidance from human and computational oracles
Computer scientist Jelani Nelson with his daughter at their home in Berkeley

The computer scientist who shrinks big data

12/08/20 Quanta Magazine — EECS professor Jelani Nelson designs clever algorithms to remember slivers of massive data sets; he also teaches kids in Ethiopia how to code
Time-lapse photo of robotic arm grasping and moving various objects

Deep learning helps robots grasp and move objects with ease

11/18/20 — Combining neural networks with motion planning software gives robots the speed and skill to assist in warehouse environments
3D model of ferroelectric material

Small wonder

11/05/20 — In a breakthrough in the field of ferroelectricity, researchers have made an ultrathin material that powers the smallest of devices with lower amounts of energy.

Game-changing metalens

11/05/20 — An ultrathin, flat optical metalens could lead to new advances in solar energy, virtual reality and medical imaging.
A microscope image of the structures used to initiate the magnetization switching

Researchers break magnetic memory speed record

10/29/20 — Advance could lead to new generation of ultrafast computer chips that retain data even when there is no power
Five new Faculty Fellows for 2020-21

Berkeley Engineering announces five new faculty fellows

09/28/20 — Five new faculty members are joining the College of Engineering as faculty fellows, with ample funding to equip labs, hire graduate students and get their research projects up and running.

Boubacar Kanté selected among 2020 cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows

09/16/20 — Associate EECS professor is a pioneer in topological light sources and lasers
Ball with binary numbers floating above hand

UC Berkeley and MIT awarded $12.5M to study critical issues in data science

09/01/20 — New Foundations of Data Science Institute, funded by NSF, to include 20 UC Berkeley faculty across multiple disciplines
Richard White, EECS

Richard White, pioneer in ultrasonics and micro-electromechanical systems, dies at 90

08/26/20 — White's work on acoustic properties at the micro-scale contributed to the development of ever-smaller sensors and semiconductors.
Abstract globe with neural connections.

Berkeley leads $10M program to probe foundations of deep learning

08/25/20 CDSS — EECS professors to head five-year, multi-institution research project funded by NSF, Simons Foundation
Network of power lines at sunset

Why the U.S. leads in power outages

08/19/20 Popular Science — Our grid is outdated, run down and vulnerable to climate change, says Berkeley electrical engineer Alexandra von Meier; microgrids are one potential solution
Simons lecture at Calvin Lab auditorium

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing gets renewed support with $35.5M grant

08/13/20 — The award brings the Simons Foundation's support of the institute, launched in 2012, to nearly $100 million.
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