Entrepreneurship

October 7, 2025

Berkeley Homecoming features conversation on shaping our AI future

Andy Konwinski, serial founder and Berkeley computer science Ph.D. alum, joined Jennifer Chayes, dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), for a spirited discussion on shaping our AI future. More than 200 students and their parents, alumni and members of…

Ion Stoica

October 1, 2025

Lightspeed + Sky Lab: Supporting UC Berkeley’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

Lightspeed Venture Partners and UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab have announced a $500,000 partnership to fund pivotal research in EECS amidst a shifting landscape of funding. This marks the first formal venture capital partnership in the history of Sky Computing Lab (which follows the legacy of influential labs like RISELab…

SiFive founders: Yunsup Lee, Krste Asanovic, and Andrew Waterman

July 29, 2025

RISC-V’s Ascent Could Reshape The Global Compute Landscape

RISC-V was born in 2010 at UC Berkeley, designed as a clean-slate, royalty-free ISA optimized for modern workloads and extensibility. Its founding team—still active in steering the standard through RISC-V International (RVI)—envisioned an open hardware ecosystem that encouraged innovation across both academia and industry.

June 12, 2025

May the Best Bot Win

Started as student side project, Chatbot Arena is now the AI industry’s scoreboard—and a $100 million startup

April 11, 2025

EECS Faculty and Alumni recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards

Each year, UC Berkeley honors exceptional members of its community through the Achievement Awards. These awards recognize industry-shaping leaders, devoted alumni who have deeply impacted the campus, and young graduates whose early accomplishments show great promise. The awards are co-presented by the UC Berkeley Foundation and the Cal Alumni Association.