May 26, 2026
On May 22, the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society held two commencement ceremonies at the Greek Theatre to recognize more than 2,000 students graduating from the college with bachelor of arts degrees in computer science, data science and statistics. CS…
March 11, 2026
The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of UC regents approving a resolution “that young ladies be admitted into the University on equal terms in all respects with young men.” The campus commemorated the anniversary with an extensive campus-wide history project that documented the legacy of women…
February 13, 2026
Beresford Parlett, a pioneer in numerical analysis and a foundational figure in the history of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), died on Saturday, Feb. 7. He was 93. Parlett held a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the EECS, representing the…
June 10, 2025
EECS Professor Emeritus Michael A. Harrison passed away on Saturday, June 7. He was 89. Professor Harrison earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1963. That same year, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor and spent most of…
May 21, 2025
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Ninety researchers from around the world were named in this year’s cohort of fellows. “Their achievements represent the very best of scientific endeavour, from basic discovery to…
February 28, 2025
In honor of Black History Month, we wish to recognize the first Black student to study and receive a degree in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley. This profile is taken from a longer essay on the first African American students in science and engineering at UC Berkeley and part…
February 8, 2024
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.
December 21, 2022
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…
February 21, 2022
Lee Julian Purnell is the first Black student known to have graduated from the EECS department. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, graduated from Berkeley High in 1915, earned a B.A. from Cal in 1919, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1921, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Berkeley in 1929. He settled into a career at Howard University where he eventually became Dean of Engineering.
March 8, 2021
We are thrilled to spotlight Xinyun Chen, an EECS PhD student under Professor Dawn Song. We had the opportunity to interview her about her research and advice for undergraduate students. Here’s what she had to say! Tell us about your research? My research lies at the…