October 2, 2026
Schmidt Sciences has named EECS Assistant Professor Irene Chen as a 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Her work will focus on studying the hidden failures of AI when used for important decisions. This year’s cohort includes 28 researchers receiving up to $16 million over three years to…
September 18, 2026
Five UC Berkeley students were honored as Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2027. The graduate students — all from computer science — join more than 2,000 distinguished honorees advancing research in the fields of bioengineering, computer science and business.
August 6, 2026
The Communications of the ACM (CACM) has featured “egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation” as a Research Highlight, showcasing work co-authored by CS Assistant Professor Max Willsey. Originally recognized with a Distinguished Paper Award at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL),…
July 6, 2026
UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics, biology and medicine, to speed discovery…
June 25, 2026
EECS Professor Alyosha “Alexei” Efros has been awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. This honor is awarded annually to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Efros was honored “For pioneering work in data-driven and machine…
June 18, 2026
Professor Emeritus Elijah Lucien Polak, a distinguished researcher, dedicated educator, and cherished member of the campus community, passed away on June 12 at age 94. Polak joined the Berkeley faculty in 1961, embarking on a remarkable career that spanned more than six decades. Over…
June 9, 2026
EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has been selected to receive the University of California’s Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award for the 2026-27 academic year. Granted by the UC Office of the President, this award advances the UC’s commitment to supporting the scholarship,…
June 2, 2026
Carla Bassil’s machine learning-assisted device could improve food safety and human health.A Ph.D. student in electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS), Bassil is developing multi-modal gas sensing technologies for food safety, human health and environmental monitoring. Her presentation on her latest concept — a machine learning-assisted gas sensor chip…
June 1, 2026
EECS Professor Claire Tomlin has received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Presented annually by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the award is the highest professional recognition for US control systems engineers and scientists. Established in 1979 and named after applied mathematician Richard Bellman, the…
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…