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EECS

Royal Society building in London

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
Rendering of Quantum CubeSat

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
Ferroelectricity model

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
Smartphone with tall buildings in the background

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
Rendering of blower unit

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
Photo illustration of student with smartphone and computer code

Reinventing cybersecurity

04/14/20 — Researchers are advancing blockchain and encryption methods to protect personal data and make sharing it more secure.
Three poses of BRETT robot

Learning to learn

04/14/20 — Researchers are using deep reinforcement learning techniques to equip robots with cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities.
Brain with hemorrhages highlightedscans

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.
ICU anaesthesia ventilator workstation in an emergency room

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
Healthcare worker in hospital storage room.

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
Costas Spanos with 3D printers

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
UVD disinfectant robot spreads ultraviolet rays in hospitals to kill bacteria and viruses

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

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
Illustration of layered plasmonic nano-antenna arrays

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.
Sanjam Garg and Aditya Parameswaran

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.
Digital data photo illustration

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.
Peter Chen and Pieter Abbeel

Technology developed by Berkeley robotics researchers put to real world use

01/29/20 New York Times — Covariant, an AI robotics company built on research that began at Berkeley, is garnering attention in the world of industrial automation.

Berkeley professor Doug Tygar, leading expert in cybersecurity and privacy, has died

01/17/20 I School — Doug Tygar, professor of computer sciences and information management, died on Thursday, Jan. 16, at the age of 57. Over his 20-year tenure at UC Berkeley, he made key contributions in the areas of computer security, cryptography, privacy and digital rights management.
Hany Farid

UC Berkeley professor influences Facebook’s efforts to combat deepfakes

01/14/20 — The social media giant hired Hany Farid to help it detect fake videos, but Farid says company's new policy is problematic.
Anyscale co-founders Robert Nishihara, Ion Stoica and Philipp Moritz

Grad students, Databricks founder tackle programming challenge

12/17/19 Business Insider — RISELab spinoff Anyscale is building tools and infrastructure to run distributed applications, the next really hard problem for big data programmers.
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