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 25, 2025
Two projects proposed by Berkeley EECS professors recently received funding from the AI for Math Fund to develop systems that help advance mathematical discovery and research. Last week, the AI for Math Fund announced a total of $18 million in grants for 29 projects, one of the…
September 19, 2025
Five UC Berkeley students were honored as Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2026. The graduate students — all from computer science — join more than 1,900 distinguished honorees advancing research in the fields of bioengineering, computer science, energy science and business.
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…
September 12, 2025
UC Berkeley EECS is proud to announce the creation of the Vigyan Singhal Fund for Chip Design Education, established through the generosity of alumnus Vigyan Singhal (M.S. ‘94, Ph.D. ‘95 EECS), now Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA. The fund will provide sustained support for instruction and the educational…
August 28, 2025
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been named to TIME100 AI 2025 list. A globally recognized leader in artificial intelligence, Russell is celebrated for his groundbreaking research and his role as a prominent voice in the field of AI safety.
August 27, 2025
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Materials Sciences Division has made a significant leap toward building compact and scalable quantum networks. The work, published in Optica, details a new chip-based system that can control multiple quantum…
August 25, 2025
This fall, UC Berkeley Engineering welcomes 11 new faculty members to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, which is shared with the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society.
August 13, 2025
CS Assistant Professor Serina Chang, who joined UC Berkeley EECS in July, has been honored with the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) Dissertation Award for her thesis, “Computational Methods for Human Networks and High-Stakes Decisions.” Chang’s work sits at the intersection of AI…
August 11, 2025
“This computer science professor became a billionaire launching four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including unicorns Databricks and Anyscale. But it’s never been just about business.”