Graduate student Emmi Wyttenbach was recently awarded the 2026 Tong Leong Lim Pre-Doctoral Prize in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department! This annual prize is awarded to EECS graduate students who achieve the highest scores in their preliminary examinations. Emmi is the first Pilawa Group member to receive this prize. Her current research spans the modeling and control of resonant switched capacitor converters and the generation of very high frequency electromagnetic waves for MRI applications. The award details can be found here: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Students/Awards/
BPEC Boles Group members Ben Karish, Wentao Xu, and Sourav Naval were also awarded–details can be found here: https://bpec.berkeley.edu/?p=1200