News & Highlights

UC Berkeley Professor and TerraSwarm PI receives IEEE Fellow distinction

December 14, 2017

On November 28th, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) named Terraswarm PI and UC Berkeley professor Sanjit Seshia as a newly elevated Fellow, a prestigious honor ... Read More...


TerraSwarm PI and Professor at the University of Washington speaks for Apple at NIPS conference

December 11, 2017

While simultaneously an Associate Professor of Machine Learning at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Washington and a TerraSwarm PI, Carlos Guestrin addressed attendees ... Read More...


Can driverless cars be safe? Penn State Professor and TerraSwarm PI Rahul Mangharam and team are working on it

December 4, 2017

Much attention in the area of autonomous cars is focused in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Carnegie Mellon University has positioned itself as a leader in this field. The University of Pennsylvania, along ... Read More...


CMU to participate in LoRaWAN Academy curriculum

November 16, 2017

The LoRaWAN Academy announced the participation of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in the LoRaWAN Academy curriculum yesterday, where CMU had developed its own network, OpenChirp, ... Read More...


UC Berkeley Professor and TerraSwarm PI Pieter Abbeel heads new startup of AI hotshots

November 13, 2017

Professor Peter Abbeel's research at UC Berkeley's Robot Lab had been working on adaptive learning through demonstration, initially with the famous towel-folding performed by a robot and the robotic knot-tying ... Read More...


Caltech Professor and TerraSwarm PI recipient of NIH BRAINS Grant

October 24, 2017

PASADENA NOW reports on NIH Grants awarded to 5 CalTech faculty for 3 projects aimed at identifying ... Read More...


Director of DCIST at University of Pennsylvania and TerraSwarm PI Vijay Kumar receives $27M grant from Army to develop robot teams

October 18, 2017

The United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has awarded Penn Engineering a five-year, $27 million grant to develop new methods of creating autonomous, intelligent and resilient teams of robots. The ... Read More...


TerraSwarm Director and Professor at University of California, Berkeley honored at Festchrift Symposium

October 18, 2017

On October 13, 2017, Professor Edward A. Lee, Director of The TerraSwarm Research Center, was honored at a Festschrift Symposium. A "Festschrift" is a celebration of the scholarship and teaching of a ... Read More...


BMI research by UCB faculty/TerraSwarm PI's Carmena and Maharbiz

September 29, 2017

In the Fall 2017 issue of California Magazine, Professors Jose Carmena and Michel Maharbiz were interviewed about ... Read More...


Terraswarm PI Anthony Rowe joins colleagues as Carnegie Mellon Engineering Professors work on developing firefighter location system

September 27, 2017

As one of several Engineering faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, Professor Anthony Rowe is working on a tracking system to locate firefighters inside a burning building."We want to create ... Read More...


$10 million awarded to UC San Diego study co-lead by TerraSwarm PI and computer scientist Tajana Rosing

September 20, 2017

IBM has given UC San Diego a $10 million contract to look for ways to maintain people's ability to think and remember things clearly, especially to help seniors live in their own homes late into life, ... Read More...


Prof. Jan Rabaey of UC Berkeley and TerraSwarm PI wins Aristotle award

September 18, 2017

The Aristotle Award was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) in 1995 to commend professors who best contribute to the development of the ... Read More...


UC Berkeley Ph.D. student designs new medical device in TerraSwarm PI's Design course

September 13, 2017

A medical device designed to diagnose pneumonia was named winner of the student category of Fast Company's 2017 Innovation by Design Award. The device, called Tabla, was created as a ... Read More...


LIME , new and better machine-based malware analysis tool

July 27, 2017

Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, including TerraSwarm PI Carlos Guestrin, a new tool - Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) addresses the shortcoming ... Read More...


Professor and TerraSwarm PI Anthony Rowe wants bikes to talk to cars

July 26, 2017

An article released by NPR's all tech considered concerns ... Read More...


TerraSwarm PI joins Advisory Board of leading developer of on-chip monitoring

June 2, 2017

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, faculty at University of California at Berkeley since 1976 and electronic design automation pioneer, has joined the Strategic Advisory Board at UltraSoC. ... Read More...


TerraSwarm PI Edward A. Lee and team win BEST PAPER AWARD, IoTDI Conference

April 21, 2017

Professor Edward A. Lee, along with co-authors Hokeun Kim and David Broman, won the BEST PAPER AWARD for their paper A ... Read More...


Endowed Professorship named for TerraSwarm PI Carlos Guestrin

February 24, 2017

Yesterday, Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington announced the establishment of the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Named for ... Read More...


TerraSwarm PI David Blaauw and colleague present research on "micromote" computers at IEEE Conference

February 21, 2017

Professor David Blaauw and colleague Dennis Sylvester, computer scientists and IEEE Fellows from the University of Michigan, presented 10 papers at the IEEE International Solid-State ... Read More...


TerraSwarm PI Michel Maharbiz awarded $1.5m by CZ Biohub

February 10, 2017

Michel Maharbiz, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, has been selected to receive a senior investigator award by CZ Biohub. Professor ... Read More...


Exyn Technologies, founded by Dr. Vijay Kumar, raises $6.8m in partnership with Uniformity Labs

February 6, 2017

In news released today by Marketwired, IP Group announced that its first two portfolio companies from US university ... Read More...


University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon receive $14 million grant

January 23, 2017

In partnership with CMU, Penn is participating in a $14 million, five-year transportation research grant to create a new national University Transportation Center (UTC) called Mobility 21. Rahul ... Read More...


Professor Edward A. Lee receives 2016 Achievement and Leadership Award

December 19, 2016

TerraSwarm PI and UC Berkeley faculty member Edward A. Lee was awarded the 2016 Technical Achievement and Leadership award by the IEEE Technical committee on Real-Time Systems, as announced in IEEE ... Read More...


Dr. Vijay Kumar elected to 02Micro Board of Directors

December 19, 2016

Professor Vijay Kumar, faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and PI for the TerraSwarm project, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of <b>02Micro International Limited</b>. ... Read More...


Security expert and TerraSwarm PI Alex Halderman claims paper ballot best technology for casting votes.

December 20, 2016

According to Reveal, University of Michigan computer science professor Alex Halderman ... Read More...



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