October 14, 2026
UC Berkeley researchers led by Emma Pierson (EECS) and Ziad Obermeyer (Public Health) have been awarded $1.7 million through Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science. The research grant will support advancements in medical discovery using AI interpretability and agentic AI techniques. UC Berkeley…
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 28, 2026
How does a driverless car or a robot know where it is in space? EECS 116, taught by Associate Prof. Giuseppe Loianno in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, delves into the complex AI-enabled calculations that aim to answer that question.
August 24, 2026
The Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (MAIML) is a full-time degree program taken over two semesters in person at the Berkeley campus. Students will develop mastery of the computational and statistical foundations of machine learning and AI to create, improve, understand and responsibly deploy and…
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),…