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August 1, 2025
Berkeley computer science researchers propose evidence-based AI policy recommendations
Jennifer Chayes, Ion Stoica, Dawn Song, and Emma Pierson are co-authors on the article – “Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy” by Rishi Bommasani et al – published by the journal Science on July 31.
July 28, 2025
EECS researchers win MLArchSys Best Paper Award
EECS Professors Alvin Cheung and Sophia Shao, and their students Charles Hong and Sahil Batia, have won the Best Paper Award at the Machine Learning for Computer Architecture and Systems (MLArchSys) Workshop, held at ISCA 2025.
Alvin Cheung receives ACSIC Rock Star Award
CS Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Rock Star Award for Mid-Career Investigators by the Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (ACSIC).
Four EECS Faculty win inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards
EECS Assistant Professors Natacha Crooks, Sagar Karandikar, Amy Pavel, and Rishabh Iyer have been selected to receive inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards.
May 21, 2025
Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale
“We are pleased to see Red Hat build upon the established success of vLLM, which originated in our lab to help address the speed and memory challenges that come with running large AI models. Open source projects like vLLM, and now llm-d anchored in vLLM, are at the frontier of AI innovation tackling the most demanding AI inference requirements and moving the needle for the industry at large.” -Ion Stoica, Professor and Director of Sky Computing Lab, University of California, Berkeley
May 7, 2025
PyTorch Foundation Welcomes vLLM as a Hosted Project
The PyTorch Foundation is excited to welcome vLLM as a PyTorch Foundation-hosted project. Contributed by the University of California – Berkeley, vLLM is a high-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine designed for LLMs.
April 17, 2025
Broadcom expands support for UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab
Following VMware’s long-standing sponsorship, Broadcom is deepening its collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab through a $4 million gift. This expanded collaboration reinforces a shared commitment to innovation and interoperability, building on both organizations’ histories of addressing complex industry challenges through cutting-edge research.
April 7, 2025
Ion Stoica and John Schulman recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards
Stoica, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, is the recipient of the 2025 Fiat Lux Faculty Award. The award recognizes a Berkeley faculty member whose extraordinary contributions advance the university’s philanthropic mission and transform its research, teaching. and programs.
February 21, 2025
Sky Computing Lab receives NVIDIA DGX B200 for AI research
This week, the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley EECS became the first research institution in the nation to receive NVIDIA’s cutting-edge DGX B200 system.
February 19, 2025
Prof. Natacha Crooks named Sloan Fellow
The awards honor early career researchers who have demonstrated innovation and creativity.