August 28, 2026
UC Berkeley News interviewed Dawn Song, a professor of computer science and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence. In an email conversation, Song discusses the unique safety challenges posed by agentic AI, where the field is heading next and how events like the Agentic…
July 28, 2026
In a study published today in Nature Photonics, researchers designed a computational microscope capable of capturing micron-scale resolution across multi-centimeter areas at faster-than-video rates. Using an array of 48 camera sensors and computational imaging “tricks,” their new microscope was able to capture videos at a rate of…
July 16, 2026
EECS professor and Associate Provost of BA&SC Victoria Coleman joined Space News for an episode of their Space Minds podcast.
July 2, 2026
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Professor Ana Arias has officially assumed the role of Department Chair. Arias succeeds Jelani Nelson, who is stepping down to take an industrial leave of absence. The…
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 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 19, 2026
EECS Professors Ken Goldberg and Jitendra Malik will lead two UC Berkeley research projects as part of the next phase of the Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program (URP 3.0), a five-year collaboration supporting curiosity-driven research across robotics, AI, mobility, and materials science.Goldberg’s project, “Amplifying Robot Failure…
May 15, 2026
CS Professor Armando Fox is featured in this Q/A from the California Education Learning Lab’s Substack. The conversation is a reflective piece that examines the existential and ethical crisis facing the field of computer science in the age of Generative AI.