Department: EECS

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August 6, 2026

CACM features Max Willsey’s research on ‘egg’ program optimization library

The Communications of the ACM (CACM) has featured “egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation” as a Research Highlight, showcasing work co-authored by CS Assistant Professor Max Willsey. Originally recognized with a Distinguished Paper Award at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL),…

August 6, 2026

The New Yorker: What Would It Mean to See a New Color?

The article explores the creation and perception of a newly experienced color named “olo” (described as the “greenest green” or an impossibly vivid, hyper-saturated teal) that was produced artificially by a multidisciplinary team led by CS Professor Ren Ng.

July 6, 2026

UC Berkeley and UCSF Launch Computational Biomedicine Initiative

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…

July 6, 2026

Researchers electrically power nanophotonic lasers without disturbing light

“This breakthrough could help enable a new generation of compact and energy-efficient photonic technologies,” said principal investigator Boubacar Kanté, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab. “More broadly, our approach, which I call orthogonal optoelectronics, enables…

June 25, 2026

Alyosha Efros wins Computer Graphics Achievement Award

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 1, 2026

Claire Tomlin receives the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

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 15, 2026

Can a Computer Scientist Still Hope?

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.

April 29, 2026

Peter Bartlett elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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…