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November 6, 2025

Emma Pierson named Zhang Family Endowed Professor

Emma Pierson, who joined EECS earlier this year, was named the department’s Zhang Family Endowed Professor. Hao Zhang, M.A. ’05, Ph.D ’07, contributed $1 million to establish the endowment and support junior faculty working on artificial intelligence. Pierson’s research has many…

September 23, 2025

U.S. News ranks Berkeley’s undergrad engineering program No. 3 in the nation

UC Berkeley Engineering holds onto the No. 3 spot in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of undergraduate engineering programs. U.S. News includes rankings for both computer engineering and computer science. Both are housed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, which is shared with the College of…

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…

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February 8, 2024

Joseph Gier added to self-guided Black history tour of UC Berkeley

Black Lives at Cal adds the Joseph Gier Memorial to UC Berkeley’s first self-guided Black history tour. Black Lives at Cal (BLAC) is a multi-year initiative formed in 2021 “to celebrate, defend, and advance the legacy of Black people at the University of California, Berkeley.

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December 21, 2022

Berkeley EECS to honor Joseph Gier with memorial sculpture

  A community is defined by the heroes it chooses to celebrate. We invite you to join the EECS department in recognizing a previously overlooked hero, Berkeley EE Prof. Joseph T. Gier, the University of California’s first tenured Black professor. Raised in Oakland by a single mother, Gier came to…