Let them see you sweat
05/01/16 — Berkeley engineers are using sweat to measure metabolites and electrolytes to provide continuous, non-invasive monitoring of a user's body.
Electrical engineering
Say cheese
05/01/16 — Computer scientists are using machine learning techniques to analyze large collections of American high school yearbook photos by superimposing the changes in hairstyles, clothing and even smiles from over the last century.
Fingerprint scanner
05/01/16 — Fingerprint scanning technology is advancing to create three-dimensional images of a fingerprint to eliminate the risk of counterfeited two-dimensional images, offering more security.
Life with machine: Robot relationships get real
05/01/16 — Three Berkeley professors studying artificial intelligence and robotics are testing how machines and humans come into physical contact, behave independently and interact with one another. The common goal: to create machines with the intelligence to better serve and work with human beings.
Making unmanned flight safe
05/01/16 — Responsible Robotics is creating new technologies that enable drone operators to easily comply with emerging Federal Aviation Administration regulations.
Two engineering professors elected to AAAS
04/20/16 — Professors Jay Keasling (chemical and bioengineering) and Scott Shenker (EECS) are among nine UC Berkeley faculty members elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers.
Automakers go back to school for self-driving cars
03/16/16 Bloomberg Business — Automakers Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen, along with electronic companies Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm and Panasonic, are collaborating to fund artificial intelligence research at UC Berkeley, hoping this DeepDrive alliance can help them build the brains behind self-driving cars.
‘Deep learning’ – a giant step for robots
03/04/16 Berkeley Research — For 15 years, Berkeley robotics researcher Pieter Abbeel has been looking for ways to make robots learn. In 2010 he and his students programmed a robot to fold towels. Now, he's gotten robots to learn from their experience.
Inside the artificial intelligence revolution
02/29/16 Rolling Stone — A visit to Sutardja Dai Hall's "robot nursery school," where EECS professor Pieter Abbeel and colleagues are trying to teach robots to understand the world and think intelligently, kicks off a look at the potential and the perils of artificial intelligence.
Imprint Energy challenges students to build a better battery
02/25/16 Sutardja Center — Imprint CEO Christine Ho (B.S'05, M.S'07, Ph.D'10 MSE) returned to campus as part of the Sutardja Center's Collider program, which challenges students to work on cutting-edge research projects with industry.
Diane Greene tops list of powerful women engineers
02/24/16 Business Insider — Tech entrepreneur Diane Greene (M.S.'88 EECS) is the #1 pick of Business Insider in its National Engineers Week salute to influential women engineers, honored for her selection by Google to run its cloud computing business. Also on the list is #3 Tara Bunch (B.S.'85 ME), VP of operations at Apple.
EECS’ Nir Yosef among 8 new Sloan fellows on campus
02/24/16 — Eight UC Berkeley assistant professors, including Nir Yosef of EECS, are among 126 new Sloan Research Fellows, honoring early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars.
Young Berkeley Engineering faculty members honored by White House
02/19/16 — President Obama this week named three young UC Berkeley faculty members, including EECS associate professors Pieter Abbeel and Sayeef Salahuddin, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
Like GPS for your sex drive
02/17/16 — Our phones are smart. Our cars are smart. And now, thanks to SkyDeck-based Lioness and its Berkeley Engineering grads, even vibrators can be smart, providing the data a woman needs to reach her destination free of detours, traffic tie-ups and road rage.
Getting more women into tech careers (and why it matters)
02/16/16 — In an EECS colloquium, Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe talks about how to increase the number of women in technology.
Cockroach robot squeezes though cracks
02/08/16 — Berkeley robotics engineers hope their new cockroach-inspired bot will be able to crawl through tiny spaces to find people buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Wearable sensor can collect data from sweat
02/01/16 New York Times — Berkeley engineers have created a flexible, wearable sensor that can collect data about multiple chemicals in body sweat. The device could help people monitor conditions like dehydration and fatigue in real time, said EECS professor Ali Javey.
Let them see you sweat: Wearable sensors analyze perspiration
01/27/16 — Berkeley engineers have built a small, flexible device that can monitor levels of important body fluids simply by measuring sweat on a person's skin.
Super small science
01/26/16 NSF/NBC — You may have nanotechnology in your pocket and not even know it. In a video feature on nanotechnology's everyday impacts, EECS associate professor Ana Claudia Arias talks about her work with flexible sensors.
The strange rituals of tech intern recruiting
01/25/16 The Atlantic — At Berkeley Engineering, the on-campus presentations by Silicon Valley companies mean free t-shirts, free food, and lots of stories about meditation and disco balls.