December 10, 2025

The 2025 EECS Distinguished Alumni

The EECS Department is proud to present the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize valuable contributions made by the distinguished alumni of Berkeley to the fields of Electrical Engineering and…

September 23, 2025

UC Berkeley ranked #1 in data science and #2 in computer science by U.S. News

UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the 2026 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today. The university also held its No. 2 ranking in computer science at the undergraduate level. It shared that spot with Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford…

September 12, 2025

UC Berkeley EECS announces the Vigyan Singhal Fund for Chip Design Education

UC Berkeley EECS is proud to announce the creation of the Vigyan Singhal Fund for Chip Design Education, established through the generosity of alumnus Vigyan Singhal (M.S. ‘94, Ph.D. ‘95 EECS), now Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA. The fund will provide sustained support for instruction and the educational…

August 27, 2025

EECS researchers develop a scalable quantum platform for high-speed communications

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Materials Sciences Division has made a significant leap toward building compact and scalable quantum networks. The work, published in Optica, details a new chip-based system that can control multiple quantum…

Claire Tomlin sits in a test aircraft used by her autonomous vehicles research team. (Photo/ David Shen)

August 12, 2025

Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory

As a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, Claire Tomlin has spent her career researching ways to enable autonomous systems to navigate safely. But over the past four years as department chair, she also focused on responsibly steering EECS…