June 1, 2026
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 19, 2026
EECS Professors Ken Goldberg and Jitendra Malik will lead two UC Berkeley research projects as part of the next phase of the Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program (URP 3.0), a five-year collaboration supporting curiosity-driven research across robotics, AI, mobility, and materials science.Goldberg’s project, “Amplifying Robot Failure…
May 15, 2026
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 7, 2026
UC Berkeley’s graduate programs in computer and electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics continue to receive high rankings by U.S. News & World Report, according to the 2026 rankings released April 7. The following rankings were given to Berkeley graduate programs:…
April 2, 2026
Three research projects featuring contributors from Sky Computing Lab have recently been selected for Laude’s Slingshot program. Featured Research Projects: Continual Learning Benchmark Researchers: Parth Asawa, Matei Zaharia A benchmark that…
March 26, 2026
EECS Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski has received the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Technical Achievement award for Integration and Miniaturization of Switching Power Converters. The award recognizes him “for fundamental and practical contributions to hybrid switched-capacitor and flying capacitor multi-level power conversion technologies.”…
March 23, 2026
Two members of the EECS community have been recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards: EECS Teaching Professor John DeNero will receive the 2026 Fiat Lux Faculty Award, and Arjun Singh, CS Ph.D. ’16, will receive the Mark Bingham Award…
February 17, 2026
Three early-career faculty in the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) – Yuan Cao, Sarah E. Chasins, and John Wright – have been awarded prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships.
February 13, 2026
Beresford Parlett, a pioneer in numerical analysis and a foundational figure in the history of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), died on Saturday, Feb. 7. He was 93. Parlett held a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the EECS, representing the…
January 29, 2026
Traditional cameras rely on bulky glass lenses to focus light into human-interpretable images. However, a new generation of “lensless” imagers is stripping away the glass, replacing it with thin optical masks and sophisticated algorithms. While these systems promise to make cameras thinner and more versatile, designing the…