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…
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…
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…
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.”
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.
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 29, 2025
RISC-V was born in 2010 at UC Berkeley, designed as a clean-slate, royalty-free ISA optimized for modern workloads and extensibility. Its founding team—still active in steering the standard through RISC-V International (RVI)—envisioned an open hardware ecosystem that encouraged innovation across both academia and industry.
July 24, 2025
EECS Ph.D. student Qinghua Ding has been awarded the 2025 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). This prestigious award recognizes outstanding student-authored papers presented at ISIT, one of the premier conferences in information theory. Ding was selected for…
July 21, 2025
EECS Assistant Professors Natacha Crooks, Sagar Karandikar, Amy Pavel, and Rishabh Iyer have been selected to receive inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards. This prestigious award recognizes early-career faculty whose research is advancing the frontiers of machine learning and systems. Each award includes $100,000 in unrestricted…