Electrical engineering

Northwest University Semiconductor Network plans to build semiconductor workforce of the future

06/13/23 — UC Berkeley among 13 universities partnering with government and industry “to expand the educational opportunities for students to graduate with the skills and knowledge needed to meet this moment in our nation’s history”

Photo of Gridscope mounted to a power pole in a snowy, mountainous area. (Photo courtesy Gridware)

CITRIS Foundry alumni innovate for a more sustainable world

06/01/23 — CITRIS: Startups founded by Berkeley engineers work to combat climate change, improve energy efficiency and develop more sustainable solutions

Headshots of Hannah Stuart (left) and Grigory Tikhomirov

Two Berkeley Engineering professors earn NSF CAREER Awards

05/24/23 — Hannah Stuart and Grigory Tikhomirov recognized for research with real-world impact

On the grid

05/17/23 — A device from Gridware, founded by engineering alums, uses harmonics from power poles to evaluate grid integrity and hazard risks.

Image of an array of light-emitting devices with 49 different, individually addressable colors.

Berkeley engineers develop multicolored light-emitting array on a single chip

05/10/23 — With limitless colors, device may lead to advances in spectroscopy

Two EECS professors recognized with NSF CAREER Awards

05/02/23 — Honors for Gireeja Ranade and Yakun Sophia Shao are among the agency’s most competitive for early career professionals

Still image of EECS professor Sergey Levine discussing how advances in offline reinforcement learning can enable machine learning systems to learn to make more optimal decisions from data.

A path to resourceful autonomous agents

05/01/23 — In latest AI lecture, EECS professor Sergey Levine discusses how advances in offline reinforcement learning can enable machine learning systems to learn to make more optimal decisions from data

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