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 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…
May 6, 2026
Alexandre Bayen, EECS Professor and director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS), was awarded the Ordre National du Mérite in a ceremony at the Musée de la Légion d’Honneur.This is one of France’s highest national distinctions,…
April 29, 2026
CS and Statistics Professor Emeritus Peter Bartlett has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) as one of 120 national and 25 international members. NAS members are recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Bartlett is currently Head of…
April 21, 2026
CS Professor Ren Ng has been named one of National Geographic’s 33 visionary changemakers of 2026, featured in the publication’s special issue recognizing individuals whose work is reshaping the world. Ng is recognized alongside vision scientist and Professor of Optometry and Vision Science, Austin…
April 8, 2026
Matei Zaharia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure. In the prize announcement, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) noted Zaharia’s development of…