Accidental billionaires
06/02/21 Forbes — How seven Berkeley artificial intelligence engineers who didn't want to make a cent are now worth billions
EECS
EECS faculty featured as luminaries in Electron Devices Society podcast series
05/25/21 — Chenming Hu, Tsu-Jae King Liu and Leon Chua share insights from their lives and careers
EECS professor David Culler awarded Berkeley Citation
05/21/21 — The prestigious honor, one of the highest given by UC Berkeley, recognizes achievements that exceed the standards of excellence
2D transistor technology overcomes barrier to ever-shrinking computer chips
05/17/21 — Atomically thin semiconductor could be game-changing alternative to silicon
Three engineering faculty receive Young Investigator Award
05/17/21 — Alvin Cheung, Somayeh Sojoudi and Grace Gu to receive highly competitive grants to support their early-career research.
The language of probabilities
05/13/21 — Professor Dan Klein and his Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group helped a computer win the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
Top graduating senior a tech whiz and musician
05/10/21 — With full-ride fellowship offers from Stanford and MIT, electrical engineer Leyla Kabuli is sticking with Berkeley.
EECS professor Michael Jordan named to Royal Society
05/06/21 — Jordan is among 10 foreign members, 52 fellows and one honorary fellow elected to the academy.
Berkeley engineers win Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Awards
04/27/21 — Nine engineering teaching groups were honored for innovations in remote instruction
Read my hand
04/26/21 — A wearable device that uses biosensors and AI can recognize hand gestures based on electrical signals detected in the forearm.
Tiny wireless implant detects oxygen deep within the body
04/14/21 — Ultrasound-powered device offers minimally invasive way to monitor organs or tissue
Hayley Iben: Science and math meet artistic expression
04/13/21 — Pixar director of engineering and BE alumna Hayley Iben has won a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
How Databricks bet big on the cloud
04/09/21 Forbes — A conversation with co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi, whose Berkeley-born data analytics company is now valued at $28 billion.
TotalVI: A transformative algorithm
03/25/21 — UC Berkeley researchers have invented a computer algorithm that uses deep learning to integrate gene and protein data about single cells
Using AI to eliminate traffic jams
03/13/21 Fortune — ITS Director Alex Bayen explains how autonomous vehicles can help traffic flow more smoothly.
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
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
Championing Berkeley-bred success
02/16/21 Calbears.com — Investor Pete Sonsini focuses on companies created at Cal, particularly data engineering startups
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
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.