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…
March 19, 2026
Narges Norouzi has been named an NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellow, selected to serve as an ambassador for advancing AI education along with 24 fellows from across the United States. Norouzi is associate dean for students at the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data…
March 11, 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) has elected Eric Paulos, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, to the ACM CHI Academy. Paulos is one of eleven individuals inducted to the Academy this year. The CHI Academy…
March 11, 2026
The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of UC regents approving a resolution “that young ladies be admitted into the University on equal terms in all respects with young men.” The campus commemorated the anniversary with an extensive campus-wide history project that documented the legacy of women…
February 18, 2026
Aditi Krishnapriyan, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a prestigious 2025 U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award. At UC Berkeley, Krishnapriyan has faculty appointments in the Department…