Electrical engineering

ChatGPT architect, Berkeley alum John Schulman on his journey with AI

04/20/23 — Schulman talks about why he chose Berkeley for graduate school, the allure of towel-folding robots, and what he sees for the future of artificial general intelligence

Photo of Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering.

Chancellor Christ, Dean Liu chart future for semiconductor industry

04/20/23 — Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, joined Chancellor Carol Christ in an open letter outlining plans to expand and diversify the nation’s semiconductor workforce

When will cars be fully self-driving?

04/18/23 The Wall Street Journal — Wall Street Journal: UC Berkeley EECS professor Alexandre Bayen and other experts weigh in on what the future holds for autonomous vehicles

Deep RL at scale: Fleet of robots sorts waste in office buildings

04/13/23 — Researchers show how deep reinforcement learning enables robots to improve continually in the real world, while doing an actual job

Photo of farm machine harvesting miscanthus, a quickly-growing grass that can be used as a bioenergy crop or harvested, salted and buried to sequester the carbon it took in from the atmosphere.

To more effectively sequester biomass and carbon, just add salt

04/11/23 — Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gases for thousands of years

Stuart Russell calls for new approach for AI, a ‘civilization-ending’ technology

04/07/23 CDSS — CDSS: UC Berkeley computer science professor and leading AI expert is urging companies to rethink how they’re building AI and calling on countries to regulate it to ensure it furthers human interests

Image of Jitendra Malik, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, presenting on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence at the 110th annual Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures.

Jitendra Malik presents on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence

03/24/23 — Berkeley Talks transcript: The Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences examines the evolution of artificial intelligence, part of the Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures

Berkeley advisors share advice with students amid tech layoffs

03/21/23 — CDSS: This year’s data and computer science graduates are urged to embrace a more nuanced job market view

Headshots of Joshua Hug on the left, and Abigail de Kosnik on the right.

Berkeley Engineering faculty win 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award

03/17/23 — Joshua Hug, EECS teaching professor, and Abigail De Kosnik, director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, are among five to receive the prestigious honor

Image of digital lights mimicking the shape of a human brain.

AI lectures at Berkeley to explore possibilities, implications of ChatGPT

03/10/23 — Artificial intelligence experts from Berkeley and beyond will explore the ramifications of ChatGPT on science and society in a spring lecture series

Photo of Ricky Muller and Jaijeet Roychowdhury, professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences and 2023 Bakar Prize winners

Rikky Muller and Jaijeet Roychowdhury named 2023 Bakar Prize winners

02/22/23 — Electrical engineering and computer sciences professors among four Berkeley faculty to be awarded additional resources to help translate their discoveries into real-world solutions

Hari Balakrishnan awarded 2023 Marconi Prize

02/22/23 — Berkeley Engineering alum, innovator and entrepreneur honored for the broad societal impact of his discoveries in mobile sensing, networking and distributed systems

Angjoo Kanazawa named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow

02/15/23 — Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences is among six young Berkeley faculty honored for their creativity, innovation, research accomplishments and potential to become a leader in their field

EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award

02/08/23 — Berkeley engineering professor honored for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that powers today’s electronic devices

Energized for real-world impact

01/25/23 — Founded by Berkeley Engineering alumni, Gridware uses sensors to tackle the threat of wildfires

From Ethiopia to Berkeley and back again

01/17/23 — EECS Ph.D. student Tsegereda Esatu, a UC-HBCU Initiative fellow, shares her educational journey and her hopes for bringing semiconductor research to students in Ethiopia

Photo from 1992 of David Hodges, engineering dean, speaking at a Sproul Asoociation Luncheon

David Hodges, former dean of engineering and pioneer in integrated circuit design, dies at 85

11/29/22 — His work contributed to the rapid growth of the tech industry

A patient who lost the ability to speak due to severe paralysis uses a brain-computer interface to silently spell out sentences from a vocabulary of more than 1,000 words.

Giving a voice to all

11/08/22 — Advances in brain-computer interfaces may soon make communication easier for those who have lost the ability to speak

Lighting up Hollywood

11/07/22 — Alum Paul E. Debevec received a lifetime achievement award at the 74th Emmy Awards.

Schematic showing the “Dirac cones” through which the light passes through the holes in the semiconductor membrane.

Next-gen lasers

11/07/22 — An advanced semiconductor laser can emit a single mode of light while still scaling up in size and power.