Academic-Research

LLM-Driven Intent-Based Privacy-Aware Orchestration Across the Cloud-Edge Continuum

• Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:LLM-Driven Intent-Based Privacy-Aware Orchestration Across the Cloud-Edge Continu

Load Balanced Parallel Node Generation for Meshless Numerical Methods

• Introduces load‑balanced parallel algorithm for Poisson disc sampling node generation. • Uses coupled spatial indexing and hypertree work distribution to balance workload. • Pre‑

Managing Credible Anonymous Identities in Web 3.0 Services: A Scalable On-Chain Admission Framework with Recursive Proof Aggregation

• Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Managing Credible Anonymous Identities in Web 3.0 Services: A Scalable On-Chain Admission

Multi-Agent Meta-Advisor for UAV Fleet Trajectory Design in Vehicular Networks

• Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Multi-Agent Meta-Advisor for UAV Fleet Trajectory Design in Vehicular Networks View PDF H

Near-optimal population protocols on bounded-degree trees

• Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Near-optimal population protocols on bounded-degree trees View PDF HTML (experime

push0: Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Orchestration for Zero-Knowledge Proof Generation

• Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:push0: Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Orchestration for Zero-Knowledge Proof Generat

Refined Bayesian Optimization for Efficient Beam Alignment in Intelligent Indoor Wireless Environments

• Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 12 Nov 2025 (v1), last revised 17 Feb 2026 (this version, v2)] Title:Refined Bayesian Optimization for Effic

ROIX-Comp: Optimizing X-ray Computed Tomography Imaging Strategy for Data Reduction and Reconstruction

• Electrical Engineering and Systems Science > Image and Video Processing [Submitted on 17 Feb 2026] Title:ROIX-Comp: Optimizing X-ray Computed Tomography Imaging Strategy for Data

Scalable Base Station Configuration via Bayesian Optimization with Block Coordinate Descent

• Computer Science > Information Theory [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Scalable Base Station Configuration via Bayesian Optimization with Block Coordinate Descent View PDF HTML (

Scrutinizing Variables for Checkpoint Using Automatic Differentiation

• Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [Submitted on 17 Feb 2026] Title:Scrutinizing Variables for Checkpoint Using Automatic Differentiation View PDF HT

SRFed: Mitigating Poisoning Attacks in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data

• Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:SRFed: Mitigating Poisoning Attacks in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data

The Role of Common Randomness Replication in Symmetric PIR on Graph-Based Replicated Systems

• Computer Science > Information Theory [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:The Role of Common Randomness Replication in Symmetric PIR on Graph-Based Replicated Systems View PDF HTML

Towards Secure and Interoperable Data Spaces for 6G: The 6G-DALI Approach

• Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Towards Secure and Interoperable Data Spaces for 6G: The 6G-DALI Approach View PDF HTML (

VerifiableFL: Verifiable Claims for Federated Learning using Exclaves

• Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 13 Dec 2024 (v1), last revised 17 Feb 2026 (this version, v4)] Title:VerifiableFL: Verifiable Claims for Federated Lear

Aditi Krishnapriyan receives 2025 DOE Early Career Award

• AMCR’s Aditi Krishnapriyan Receives 2025 Early Career Award Article Aditi Krishnapriyan, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Divi

IEEE Course Improves Engineers' Writing Skills

• In the rapidly evolving world of engineering technology, professionals devote enormous energy to such tasks as mastering the latest frameworks, optimizing architectures, and refi

Project Silica's advances in glass storage technology

• At a glance Microsoft Research publishes breakthrough inNatureon glass-based data storage that could preserve information for 10,000 years. • New technique extends technology fro

Tomorrow's Smart Pills Will Deliver Drugs and Take Biopsies

• Tomorrow’s Smart Pills Will Deliver Drugs and Take Biopsies Ingestible electronics can sense and act inside the gut One day soon, a doctor might prescribe a pill that doesn’t jus

Three UC Berkeley Engineering faculty named 2026 Sloan Fellows

• Seven UC Berkeley faculty named 2026 Sloan Fellows A Sloan Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards available to early-career researchers. • ByPublic Affairs Com

Lidar Mobility Device Assists Navigation and Avoids Collisions

• At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Singapore-based startup Strutt introduced the EV1, a powered personal mobility device that uses lidar, cameras, and onboard computing for collision avoi

Estimating Surface Heating of an Atmospheric Reentry Vehicle With Simulation

• Join Hannah Alpert (NASA Ames) to explore thermal data from the record-breaking 6-meter LOFTID inflatable aeroshell. • Learn how COMSOL Multiphysics® was used to perform inverse

We're Measuring Data Center Sustainability Wrong

• In 2024, Google claimed that their data centers are 1.5x more energy efficient than industry average. • In 2025, Microsoft committed billions to nuclear power for AI workloads. •

This Former Physicist Helps Keep the Internet Secure

• When Alan DeKok began a side project in network security, he didn’t expect to start a 27-year career. • In fact, he didn’t initially set out to work in computing at all. • DeKok

NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover

• In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. • In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. •

Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics

• MicroVision, a solid-state sensor technology company located in Redmond, Wash., says it has designed a solid-state automotive lidar sensor intended to reach production pricing be

In memoriam: Beresford Parlett (1932-2026)

• Beresford Parlett, a pioneer in numerical analysis and a foundational figure in the history of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), died on Satu

TryEngineering Marks 20 Years of Getting Kids Interested in STEM

• IEEE TryEngineering is celebrating 20 years of empowering educators with resources that introduce engineering to students at an early age. • Launched in 2006 as a collaboration b

Video Friday: Robot Collective Stays Alive Even When Parts Die

• Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. • We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics event

LEDs Enter the Nanoscale

• MicroLEDs, with pixels just micrometers across, have long been a byword in the display world. • Now, microLED-makers have begun shrinking their creations into the uncharted nano

What the FDA's 2026 Update Means for Wearables

• As new consumer hardware and software capabilities have bumped up against medicine over the last few years, consumers and manufacturers alike have struggled with identifying the

Rediscovering the Lost Legacy of Chemist Jan Czochralski

• During times of political turmoil, history often gets rewritten, erased, or lost. • That is what happened to the legacy of Jan Czochralski, a Polish chemist whose contributions t

Tips for Using AI Tools in Technical Interviews

• This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. • Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech

How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?

• For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Jaime Banks: How Do You Define an AI Companion? • Novel technology is often a double-edged sword. • New capabilitie

How Do You Define an AI Companion?

• For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Brad Knox: How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful? • AI models intended to provide companionship for humans

Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE

• Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that three UC Berkeley Engineering faculty members - Ken Goldberg, Ka

Two Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE

• Two Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that two UC Berkeley engineering faculty members - Ken Goldberg and Kam

How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End

• If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that’s because it is. • And nowhere is that more true than in the market for computer memory. • Demand, and pro

Record-breaking 'molecular sponge' pulls carbon from air faster than ever before

• Rossiter published January 27, 2026 A new material developed by BIDMaP researchers captures CO₂ from outdoor air with unprecedented speed, marking a critical leap toward practica

IEEE Honors Global Dream Team of Innovators

• Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals-the organization’s highest-level honors. • Presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors, these medals recognize innovators whose

New Devices Might Scale the Memory Wall

• Memory wall hampers AI; data movement between processor and memory costly. • Resistive RAM (RRAM) offers in‑memory computing but traditional types unstable. • UCSD researchers re

Rethinking imitation learning with Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models

• At a glance Imitation learning becomes easier when an AI agent understands why an action is taken. • Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDMs) predict plausible future states, c

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

• At a glance - Microsoft Research releases PazaBench and Paza automatic speech recognition models, advancing speech technology for low resource languages. • - Human-centered pipel

Berkeley engineers among innovators featured on Forbes '30 Under 30' list

• UC Berkeley leads with 32 honorees on Forbes 2026 ‘30 Under 30’ list, outpacing other UC campuses. • Forbes evaluates candidates on funding, revenue, social impact, scale, invent

UC Berkeley students design and test quantum chips in first-of-its-kind course

• UC Berkeley launches EE290‑Superconducting Quantum Circuits, blending theory and hands‑on design. • Students design superconducting qubit chips, then fabricate and test them in c

UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning

• AI-driven radiology report generation boosts provider efficiency and reduces reporting burden. • Traditional models overfit to institutional phrasing, limiting generalization to

Mark Asta appointed dean of Berkeley Engineering

• Mark Asta, 15-year UC Berkeley faculty, named 14th dean of College of Engineering. • Appointment announced by Chancellor Rich Lyons and Provost Ben Hermalin. • Asta will official

Sylvia Ratnasamy named 2025 ACM Fellow

• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Sylvia Ratnasamy, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, to its 2025 class of ACM Fellows. • Ratnasamy is being rec

AI has a bias problem. Can we build something smarter?

• AI increasingly shapes health and justice decisions, but bias remains a critical challenge. • UC Berkeley’s Emma Pierson develops fair algorithms to reduce racial and gender bias

Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents

• Argos trains multimodal RL agents to reward answers grounded in visual and temporal evidence, not just plausibility. • Automated verification selects specialized tools per answer

UC Berkeley professors explore new ways to integrate AI in engineering courses

• UC Berkeley faculty across four engineering departments receive funding to embed AI tools in core undergraduate courses. • Initiative funded by CAWIT and donor-supported campus p

Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new faculty members

• Berkeley Engineering hires five new tenure‑track professors across multiple departments. • Henry Corrigan‑Gibbs, ex‑MIT, focuses on privacy‑enhancing cryptographic computer syste

The Materials Project helps usher in the AI revolution for materials science

• Key Takeaways - The Materials Project is the most-cited resource for materials data and analysis tools in materials science. • - The Materials Project and its tools have been cit

OptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise

• At a glance Many real-world business problems can benefit from optimization, but translating decisions, constraints, and goals from natural language into optimization algorithms

National Nuclear Security Administration renews $25M grant to UC Berkeley-led university consortium

• Fostering the next generation of nuclear security and nonproliferation leaders, NNSA has renewed a $25 million grant for another 5 years to an R&D consortium led by the Universit

Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites

• AI agents are reshaping software development, from writing code to carrying out complex instructions. • Yet LLM-based agents are prone to errors and often perform poorly on compl

Promptions helps make AI prompting more precise with dynamic UI controls

• Anyone who uses AI systems knows the frustration: a prompt is given, the response misses the mark, and the cycle repeats. • This trial-and-error loop can feel unpredictable and d

GigaTIME: Scaling tumor microenvironment modeling using virtual population generated by multimodal AI

• The convergence of digital transformation and the GenAI revolution creates an unprecedented opportunity for accelerating progress in precision health. • Precision immunotherapy i

Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity

• As AI agents become more autonomous in handling tasks for users, it’s crucial they adhere to contextual norms around what information to share-and what to keep private. • The the