Robots, AI and podcasting: a Q&A with Pieter Abbeel
03/18/22 — Professor Pieter Abbeel has launched “The Robot Brains Podcast,” featuring discussions with leading AI experts and entrepreneurs.
Faculty
Amy Herr named chief technology officer of CZ Biohub Network
02/28/22 — Berkeley bioengineering professor will help lead Chan Zuckerberg group's efforts to advance technologies to observe, measure, and analyze human biology in action
Slicing the way to wearable sensor prototypes
02/11/22 — A $200 vinyl cutter can replace a multistep clean room technique to churn out the prototypes researchers need to rapidly test new stretchable sensors.
Veteran campus leader Catherine Koshland to retire
02/03/22 — Koshland, the Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering, has held many senior positions in her 38 years at Berkeley, culminating in her current service as interim executive vice chancellor and provost.
Ikhlaq Sidhu named dean of Spain’s IE School of Technology
12/13/21 — The founding faculty director and chief scientist of Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology to remain in current position until June 2022.
Right off the bats
11/15/21 — Researchers at the NeuroBat Lab are learning more about the brain by studying the world’s only flying mammal.
Back down to earth
11/15/21 — Materials science professor Ting Xu is re-engineering plastics for the age of sustainability.
New & noteworthy
11/15/21 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Farewell
11/15/21 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Daniel Kammen named senior adviser to USAID
10/21/21 — Kammen, who holds joint appointments in energy and resources, public policy and nuclear engineering, will serve as senior adviser for energy, climate and innovation for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Kathy Yelick named vice chancellor for research
09/30/21 — UC Berkeley computer scientist, an active scholar, teacher and leader on campus and at Berkeley Lab for three decades, will assume her new role on Jan. 1, 2022
Lessons from Hurricane Ida
09/21/21 — Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, associate professor of civil engineering and co-leader of an NSF-funded geotechnical reconnaissance team that traveled to Louisiana, shares her observations about the impact of Hurricane Ida
New study shows how air pollution varies block by block
09/07/21 — Researchers used Google Street View cars to show that levels of air pollution vary not only by region, such as between urban and rural areas, but also by city street
With a damp TV, Berkeley engineers demonstrate the potential of a green energy harvester
09/06/21 — Researchers report that moisture-induced energy harvesting could be a potential new source of power, particularly in areas of naturally high humidity
A driving force behind mixed-autonomy traffic
08/26/21 — Amazon Science: Alexandre Bayen's research, combining machine learning with big data, looks at how coordinated automation could improve traffic flow, boost efficiency and slash emissions
Using machine learning to detect early-stage cancers
08/16/21 — Berkeley researchers develop algorithm for method that identifies cancer from blood tests, well before first symptoms are present.
Researchers demonstrate new semiconductor device possibilities using black phosphorus
08/11/21 — Material's "magical" properties under stress and strain could help meet growing demand in optical communications and more
Berkeley engineering students pull off novel chip design in a single semester
06/17/21 — In an advanced circuit design course, 19 students with no prior experience in chip design went from basic introductions to tape-out by the end of a four-month period, resulting in a novel chip that will be manufactured this summer.
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
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.