News

March 11, 2026

Eric Paulos elected to the ACM CHI Academy

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…

A closeup of the mural. In the center of the mural is a composite of five graduates, a stand-in for women in the past, present and future.

March 11, 2026

Sprawling new painting commemorates 150 years of women at UC Berkeley

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 receives Department of Energy Early Career Award

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…

February 18, 2026

Tyler Hou named 2026 Hertz Fellowship Finalist

Math and CS student Tyler Hou was named a finalist for the 2026 Hertz Fellowship, one of the most prestigious and competitive awards in the nation for doctoral students in applied sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Selected from a pool of over 1,450 applicants, Hou…

February 17, 2026

Three UC Berkeley EECS faculty named 2026 Sloan Fellows

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

In Memoriam: Beresford Parlett (1932–2026)

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…

February 10, 2026

Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that three UC Berkeley Engineering faculty members — Ken Goldberg, Kam Lau and Felix Wu — have been elected to its ranks. The number of engineering faculty members in the NAE is now 74. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

=

February 6, 2026

Wentao Xu receives the Piezo MEMS Design Challenge Innovation Award

EECS graduate student Wentao Xu, member of Prof. Jessica Boles’ research group, has received the Piezo MEMS Design Challenge Innovation Award at the IEEE MEMS 2026 International Conference. Wentao conducts research in power electronics and is currently exploring how piezoelectric resonators may be…

January 22, 2026

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award recognizes EECS

Three EECS undergraduates have been recognized by the Computing Research Association (CRA) in this year’s prestigious Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. Student Recognition Nominator Victoria Phelps Finalist Dan Garcia Tyler Hou Honorable Mention Max Willsey Kelly Tou Honorable Mention Kris Pister The CRA noted that…

sylvia ratnasamy

January 21, 2026

Sylvia Ratnasamy named 2025 ACM Fellow

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Sylvia Ratnasamy, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, to its 2025 class of ACM Fellows. Ratnasamy is being recognized “for contributions to networks and networked systems.” Ratnasamy is widely known for her seminal work on…