December 10, 2025
The EECS Department is proud to present the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize valuable contributions made by the distinguished alumni of Berkeley to the fields of Electrical Engineering and…
November 24, 2025
InkSpace Imaging’s flexible MR coil has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for use with Philips 3.0T MRI systems, opening the door for its adoption across all major MRI platforms. The clearance marks a notable achievement for the Berkeley-born startup, enabling radiologists to access faster…
November 6, 2025
Professor Dawn Song was selected as a 2025 AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences. The fellowship honors researchers advancing responsible innovation and the development of AI that benefits humanity. This year’s cohort includes 28 researchers from eight countries who will receive more than…
October 21, 2025
Today, Amazon announced its new AI PhD Fellowship program, offering two years of funding to over 100 PhD students across nine universities. Ten of these inaugural fellowships have been awarded to graduate students from UC Berkeley EECS’ Sky Computing Lab, supporting cutting-edge research in core AI disciplines like machine…
October 7, 2025
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…
October 1, 2025
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…
September 12, 2025
Andrew R. Neureuther, a distinguished professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away on September 9th, 2025, shortly after his 84th birthday. A true pioneer in the field of microelectronics, he leaves behind a profound legacy that has shaped integrated circuit manufacturing…
July 31, 2025
Jennifer Chayes, Ion Stoica, Dawn Song, and Emma Pierson are co-authors on the article “Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy” by Rishi Bommasani et al, published by the journal Science on July 31. The article proposes policy mechanisms to address the opportunities and challenges of “increasingly powerful AI.”…
July 29, 2025
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.
July 15, 2025
A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $5 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program. The team’s goal is…