Post-doctoral scholar Dr. Yicheng Zhu has received a Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award for 2024. The Tucker Award is given to recognize superior work and scholarship in the characterization, development and/or use of semiconductor, magnetic, optical or electronic materials by a graduate student or students pursuing such areas of inquiry. This award memorializes Dr. Ross […]
Syed Tahmid Mahbub Receives Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans!
Syed Tahmid Mahbub has been named one of the 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows, a national, merit-based award granted to new Americans pursuing research at the graduate level. He is recognized both for his award-winning research in the Pilawa Group and for his educational contributions to multiple universities in the United States. Tahmid’s research […]
Dr. Yicheng Zhu receives Teaching Effectiveness Award
EECS grad Dr. Yicheng Zhu has received a Teaching Effectiveness Award for 2024. The Graduate Division’s Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs honors those who devise solutions to teaching or learning problems they have identified in their classes and write them up in a one-page essay. These essays are published on the GSI Center website for […]
Dr. Nathan Ellis to Join Faculty at UC Santa Cruz
Having spent the past four years with UC Berkeley, Dr. Ellis is moving to the University of California Santa Cruz — Baskin School of Engineering. Here his research group will be hosted at UCSC’s Westside Research Park, a stone’s throw from Natural Bridges State Beach. During his time at UC Berkeley, Dr. Ellis collaborated extensively […]
Prof. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski Receives 2024 Spark Award from Bakar Fellows Program
Prof. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski has received the 2024 Spark Award from Bakar Fellows Program, with Dr. Yicheng Zhu as his Innovation Fellow. Their awarded research proposal, titled “Powering the AI Revolution: A New Voltage Regulator Enabling Direct 48-V-to-1-V Vertical Power Delivery for Next-Generation Ultra-High-Power Processors,” aims to make use of innovative tools and techniques designed in Prof. Pilawa’s lab to […]
Rose Abramson receives Ph.D. Degree!
Graduate student Rose Abramson received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences on May 18th, 2024. Her dissertation was titled “Split-Phase and Multi-Resonant Operation of Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Converters.” Congratulations!
Sahana Krishnan Receives M.S. Degree!
Graduate student Sahana Krishnan received her Master of Science degree on May 14th, 2024. Her master’s thesis is titled “An EMI-Compliant and Automotive-Rated 48 V to Point-of-Load Dickson-Based Hybrid Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter.” Congratulations!
Ben Liao wins Best Presentation Award at 2024 IEEE PECI
EE researcher Ben Liao, working with Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, has received the Best Presentation Award at the 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) – a student-directed power and energy conference held annually at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The PECI Best Presentation Award is determined both by conference directors and input […]
Berkeley EECS wins Best Presentation Awards at IEEE APEC
EE grad student Logan Horowitz and post-doc Nathan Miles Ellis, advised by Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, have received awards for outstanding technical presentations at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC)–the flagship conference in power electronics. Logan received a Best Presentation award for his work on a 14-level Flying-Capacitor-Multilevel inverter for electric vehicles, and Nathan for […]