October 26, 2026
The UC Berkeley EECS community remembers alumna Dr. Melody Ivory, who died on Thursday, August 13, 2026, following a battle with cancer. Dr. Ivory made history in 2001 when she became the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
October 20, 2026
As AI becomes ever more ubiquitous, John DeNero, Ph.D. ‘10 addressed students, parents and alums at UC Berkeley Homecoming, sharing his experiences in designing curriculum and educational support tools for computer and data science students.
October 2, 2026
Schmidt Sciences has named EECS Assistant Professor Irene Chen as a 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Her work will focus on studying the hidden failures of AI when used for important decisions. This year’s cohort includes 28 researchers receiving up to $16 million over three years to…
September 18, 2026
QB3: UC Berkeley researchers led by Professor Jennifer Listgarten and Professor David Savage developed ProteinGuide, a method that uses experimental data to guide existing protein generative models toward desired properties without retraining them.
September 18, 2026
Five UC Berkeley students were honored as Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2027. The graduate students — all from computer science — join more than 2,000 distinguished honorees advancing research in the fields of bioengineering, computer science and business.
September 9, 2026
Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a new genomic language AI model, called GPN-Star, that far outpaces its competitors at identifying the most important genetic variants that contribute to inherited traits, including those that lead to disease. It is also far more computationally efficient than larger models,…
September 8, 2026
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Davis has received a major award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fund pioneering research into novel lifesaving medical interventions. Their project, an autonomous microbot capable of performing delicate surgeries inside the head,…
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…
August 6, 2026
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 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.