November 6, 2025
Emma Pierson, who joined EECS earlier this year, was named the department’s Zhang Family Endowed Professor. Hao Zhang, M.A. ’05, Ph.D ’07, contributed $1 million to establish the endowment and support junior faculty working on artificial intelligence. Pierson’s research has many…
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
UC Berkeley’s Rikky Muller (Ph.D.’13 EECS), associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, can still recall her first glimpse into the world of neurotechnology. At a conference nearly two decades ago, she saw something that didn’t seem possible: chips recording neural signals from the brain, then using those signals to…
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…
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 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 7, 2025
CS Professor Emeritus David Patterson highlights the critical need for increased research funding in a new op-ed published in The Hill, ahead of Congress’s vote on the NSF budget.
August 4, 2025
“Here we have an amazing example of how generative AI – with humans in the loop – can be used for good, at a scale that’s unprecedented, for a task that’s never been done before and for societal impact,” said Aditya Parameswaran, an associate professor at UC…
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 28, 2025
Berkeley Power and Energy Center (BPEC) researchers have received two of the three Best Paper Awards at the 2024 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling of Power Electronics (COMPEL). EECS graduate student Roderick Bayliss III and EECS Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski’s paper, “An Input Inductor Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Utilizing a…