February 18, 2026
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 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
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
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that two UC Berkeley engineering faculty members — Ken Goldberg and Kam Lau — have been elected to its ranks. The number of engineering faculty members in the NAE is now 73. Election to the NAE…
February 6, 2026
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
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…
January 21, 2026
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…
January 20, 2026
Narges Norouzi and John DeNero, associate teaching professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences, have developed Askademia, a context-aware system that responds to student questions in real-time during both live lectures and asynchronous viewing. To deliver fast, accurate answers, Askademia draws from the latest instructor audio and…
January 20, 2026
From assessing a patient’s cancer risk to setting criminal sentences, AI and algorithms are increasingly used to make life-altering decisions in health care and law. But how can we ensure that these algorithms are designed to remove the biases inherent to human decision-making, rather than reproducing them?…
January 20, 2026
This spring, Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new tenure-track professors, who will bring their research expertise and fresh perspectives to multiple departments. The new EECS faculty are Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Asir Intisar Khan, and Kater Murch.