April 22, 2026
Jennifer Listgarten, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and Yun Song, Professor of Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, have been elected as Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology, one of the field’s highest honors recognizing excellence in computational biology through research, leadership, and…
April 21, 2026
CS Professor Ren Ng has been named one of National Geographic’s 33 visionary changemakers of 2026, featured in the publication’s special issue recognizing individuals whose work is reshaping the world. Ng is recognized alongside vision scientist and Professor of Optometry and Vision Science, Austin…
April 17, 2026
In 2025, Berkeley and UCSF researchers launched Voio, a startup that aims to build AI models to help radiologists interpret images faster and more accurately. Voio’s tools are being designed to generate draft reports, freeing up radiologists to focus on patients, and to predict patient risk for…
April 15, 2026
In a recent Science review article, UC Berkeley researchers Jennifer Listgarten and Hanlun Jiang discussed opportunities and challenges in using generative protein models and other AI methods to advance protein engineering.
April 8, 2026
Matei Zaharia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure. In the prize announcement, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) noted Zaharia’s development of…
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 31, 2026
CS Professor Christian Borgs will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands this June. The honorary doctorate recognizes his pioneering work in translating complex real-world challenges, such as network design and recommendation systems, into rigorous mathematical…
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…