Berkeley Engineering

Educating leaders. Creating knowledge. Serving society.

Home > News

Electrical engineering

Alexandre Bayen and Pulkit Agrawal

Computer vision to protect patients — and budgets

02/09/18 Berkeley Research — EECS professor Alexandre Bayen and Ph.D. student Pulkit Agrawal have developed a computer vision-based system to help memory care centers monitor falls by dementia patients and to reduce them where possible.
Berkeley Citation presented to Edward Lee

Edward Lee of EECS awarded Berkeley Citation

02/09/18 — Former EECS Chair and currently Professor in the Graduate School Edward Lee was presented with the prestigious Berkeley Citation on Thursday for his distinguished contributions to UC Berkeley.
Anca Dragan

Teaching AI about human values

02/08/18 Forbes — Computer scientist and robotics engineer Anca Dragan has a cool name, an impressive CV and an important job: ensuring that our interactions with robots and other artificially intelligent agents are positive ones.
Constance Chang-Hasnain, Diane Greene and Gary May

EECS professor Chang-Hasnain named to NAE

02/07/18 — EECS professor Constance Chang-Hasnain is among 83 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Two alumni also were elected to the academy.
Grace OConnell, Laura Waller and Avideh Zakhor

Honors for three Berkeley Engineering faculty

02/07/18 — Three members of the Berkeley Engineering faculty - Grace O'Connell from mechanical engineering and Laura Waller and Avideh Zakhor from EECS - have recently received awards from scientific societies honoring their contributions to research and innovation in their fields.
Tsegereda Esatu

HBCU partnership brings new students to UC grad programs

02/02/18 University of California — A UC-wide collaboration that strengthens research ties with the nation's historically Black colleges and universities has helped more than 400 students to participate in summer internships. Among them: Tsegereda Esatu, now a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Berkeley.

Why traffic apps make congestion worse

01/30/18 — Has your smartphone traffic app ever led you into a traffic jam? Professor and traffic engineer Alexandre Bayen, director of UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies, is working on smarter apps that will actually talk to one another to prevent clogged freeways and city streets.
AI@TheHouse co-founders.

AI innovation at The House

01/17/18 — In collaboration with several Berkeley Engineering faculty, the Berkeley-based startup institute The House has formed a new AI-focused startup accelerator.
Presentating equations on a whiteboard at NIPS conference

All the buzz at AI’s big shindig

12/20/17 Economist — At the annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference this month, thousands of researchers flocked to Long Beach to devour algorithms, keynotes by famous speakers and all things artificial intelligence, prompting EECS associate professor Ben Recht to lament the event's growing corporatism.
Robert Full showing students the adhesive pads of a gecko

New course to tap Berkeley’s diversity and maker spirit

12/20/17 — Thanks to a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert Full, professor of integrative biology and EECS, can realize a dream to show students how hacking the secrets of biology can help them design their future and give back to their communities.
Warren Hoburg with the Jungle Hawk Owl drone

Drone pioneer Warren Hoburg named Innovator of the Year

12/20/17 R&D — Aerospace engineer and astronaut candidate Warren "Woody" Hoburg (M.S.'11, Ph.D.'13 EECS) has been named Innovator of the Year by R&D Magazine for his pioneering work creating the Jungle Hawk Owl extended-flight drone.
Tsu-Jae King Liu, Eli Yablonovitch

Liu, Yablonovitch honored as inventors

12/12/17 — EECS professors Tsu-Jae King Liu and Eli Yablonovitch are among three newly named Berkeley fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, an organization that champions the societal benefits of university research.
FLIPalliance: Dragan, Forbes, Fox, Joseph, Stephens-Martinez, Garcia, and Taylor

Berkeley’s FLIPalliance for diversity

12/09/17 — As part of its effort to attract talented women and minority graduate computer science applicants, Berkeley Engineering has joined the NSF-funded FLIP Alliance (Diversifying Future Leadership In the Professoriate).
Steven Conolly in his lab with two magnetic particle imaging prototypes. 

Closing in on cancer

12/06/17 — Bioengineering and EECS professor Steven Conolly is building a new kind of medical diagnostic technology called magnetic particle imaging (MPI).
The robot Vestri plays with objects to learn how to complete a task.

New robots can see into the future

12/06/17 — Berkeley researchers, led by EECS assistant professor Sergey Levine, have developed a learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before.
Frame grab from Slaughterbots video showing drone promoter

Professor’s eerie lethal drone video goes viral

11/20/17 SF Chronicle — "Slaughterbots," a not-so-futuristic video warning against the development of autonomous weapons, has gone viral. Co-created by EECS professor Stuart Russell and the Future of Life Institute, it was released this week at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva.
“blankie” developed at UC Berkeley that contains printed MRI coils

Medical electronics ‘like a second skin’

11/16/17 STAT — Using simple printers with special inks, EECS professor Ana Claudia Arias specializes in the development of low-cost, flexible and wearable electronics that can be used for medical monitoring and imaging.