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November 6, 2025
Dawn Song selected as an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences
Professor Dawn Song was selected as a 2025 AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences. The fellowship honors researchers advancing responsible innovation and the development of AI that benefits humanity. This year’s cohort includes 28 researchers from eight countries who will receive more than…
November 6, 2025
Emma Pierson named Zhang Family Endowed Professor
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 27, 2025
Tsu-Jae King Liu to receive the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award
Tsu-Jae King Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), EECS Professor Emerita, and former Dean of Engineering at UC Berkeley, will receive the 2025 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, the highest distinction granted by the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). The prestigious award places Dr. Liu in the…
October 21, 2025
EECS students drive AI innovation as Amazon PhD Fellows
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…
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August 28, 2025
Stuart Russell named to TIME100 AI 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 11, 2025
Forbes: Why This Billionaire Berkeley Professor Won’t Leave The Classroom
“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
Op-ed: Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made
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 29, 2025
RISC-V’s Ascent Could Reshape The Global Compute Landscape
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.