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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…
July 2, 2026
Changing of the Guard: Welcoming Ana Arias as EECS Department Chair
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Professor Ana Arias has officially assumed the role of Department Chair. Arias succeeds Jelani Nelson, who is stepping down to take an industrial leave of absence. The…
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…
Media Mentions
July 16, 2026
Maintaining leadership in space with Victoria Coleman
EECS professor and Associate Provost of BA&SC Victoria Coleman joined Space News for an episode of their Space Minds podcast.
June 26, 2026
How I Co-Founded Two $100B Chip Giants: A Semiconductor Legend’s Story
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli reflects on his 50-year legacy as a UC Berkeley professor, how his tools saved Intel’s historic 386 chip, and the high-stakes choice he had to make between two companies now worth roughly $100 billion each.
June 25, 2026
The Atlantic: Emma Pierson cautions about downsides of racing ahead on AI
We always hear that AI will cure cancer. But CS Assistant Professor Emma Pierson, in spite of her high cancer risk, argues that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer that are outweighed by broader societal harms.
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.