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October 23, 2023
Professors Alvin Cheung, Joseph Gonzalez, and Joseph Hellerstein win awards at VLDB Conference 2023
CS Associate Professor Alvin Cheung has won the 2023 Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Early Career Research Contribution Award. The award, which includes a $2,000 prize, recognizes researchers who have made a significant impact through a specific contribution to the field since completing their Ph.D.
August 21, 2023
Come see us at SOSP ’23!
Accepted papers by Micah Murray, Matei Zaharia, Woosuk Kwon, Zhuohan Li, Siyuan Zhuang, Lianmin Zheng, Joseph Gonzalez, Hao Zhang, Ion Stoica, and Emma Dauterman at the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.
August 18, 2023
‘Unlocking the new next frontier’: UC Berkeley researchers develop innovative AI ‘Gorilla’
Researchers from the Sky Computing lab and the Berkeley AI Research, or BAIR, recently released Gorilla, a large language model, or LLM, designed to revolutionize the way AI algorithms function. The researchers behind Gorilla include Shishir Patil, Tianjun Zhang, Prof. Joseph Gonzalez, and Xin Wang.
July 7, 2023
Come see us at OSDI ’23!
Ion Stoica will be giving the Keynote Address on Sky Computing at the 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Emma Dauterman, Siyuan Zhuang, Audrey Cheng, Romil Bhardwaj, and Zhuohan Li will be presenting at the technical sessions.
April 20, 2023
Ion Stoica and Joseph Gonzalez receive AWS AI Amazon Research Award on “A Unified Platform for Training and Serving Large Models”
Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines. Awardees, who represent 54 universities in 14 countries, have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools.
April 13, 2023
Come see SkyPilot and Skyplane at NSDI ’23!
Come see SkyPilot and Skyplane give their technical presentations at the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
An Open-Source Chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT Quality, made by LMSYS
From our Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS), we introduce Vicuna-13B, an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT.
October 19, 2022
Interview: ACM features Raluca Popa on “People of ACM Profiles”
October 5, 2022
Congrats to Shishir Patil for the POET project being featured in IEEE Spectrum!
September 29, 2022
Gateway groundbreaking brings new opportunity for computing, data science
“It's not only about data, it's what you're going to do with the data," said Stoica, adding that society is only beginning to see the impact of big data in many fields.