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December 4, 2025

How student partnerships keep Berkeley’s data science program ahead

UC Berkeley’s Data Science Undergraduate Studies (DSUS) program, home to the nation’s top-ranked undergraduate data science major, continues to evolve its curriculum with faculty and student instructors. In the Data 101: Data Engineering course, collaboration recently led to a new instructional tool developed by graduate student instructor…

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December 4, 2025

Michael I. Jordan receives major honors in China and Italy

EECS and Statistics Professor Emeritus Michael I. Jordan has been elected to two prestigious international academies: the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as a Foreign Member, and the Italian Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia (AICT).Election to CAS is among the highest honors bestowed by China’s national scientific…

December 2, 2025

Venkatesan Guruswami named Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Venkatesan Guruswami has been selected as the new director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, following an international search. The Simons Institute is the world’s foremost center for collaborative research in theoretical computer science, bringing together scholars to tackle foundational questions…

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November 17, 2025

Sayeef Salahuddin receives James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Sayeef Salahuddin, the TSMC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, was awarded the 2026 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials “for the discovery of ferroelectricity in ultra thin hafnium based oxides and their implementation in microelectronic devices.”…

November 6, 2025

Dawn Song selected as an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences

Professor Dawn Song was selected as a 2025 AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences. The fellowship honors researchers advancing responsible innovation and the development of AI that benefits humanity. This year’s cohort includes 28 researchers from eight countries who will receive more than…

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November 6, 2025

Emma Pierson named Zhang Family Endowed Professor

Emma Pierson, who joined EECS earlier this year, was named the department’s Zhang Family Endowed Professor. Hao Zhang, M.A. ’05, Ph.D ’07, contributed $1 million to establish the endowment and support junior faculty working on artificial intelligence. Pierson’s research has many…

October 27, 2025

Tsu-Jae King Liu to receive the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award

Tsu-Jae King Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), EECS Professor Emerita, and former Dean of Engineering at UC Berkeley, will receive the 2025 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, the highest distinction granted by the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). The prestigious award places Dr. Liu in the…

October 21, 2025

EECS students drive AI innovation as Amazon PhD Fellows

Today, Amazon announced its new AI PhD Fellowship program, offering two years of funding to over 100 PhD students across nine universities. Ten of these inaugural fellowships have been awarded to graduate students from UC Berkeley EECS’ Sky Computing Lab, supporting cutting-edge research in core AI disciplines like machine…