September 9, 2026
Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a new genomic language AI model, called GPN-Star, that far outpaces its competitors at identifying the most important genetic variants that contribute to inherited traits, including those that lead to disease. It is also far more computationally efficient than larger models,…
September 8, 2026
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Davis has received a major award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fund pioneering research into novel lifesaving medical interventions. Their project, an autonomous microbot capable of performing delicate surgeries inside the head,…
August 28, 2026
UC Berkeley News interviewed Dawn Song, a professor of computer science and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence. In an email conversation, Song discusses the unique safety challenges posed by agentic AI, where the field is heading next and how events like the Agentic…
August 28, 2026
How does a driverless car or a robot know where it is in space? EECS 116, taught by Associate Prof. Giuseppe Loianno in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, delves into the complex AI-enabled calculations that aim to answer that question.
August 24, 2026
The Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (MAIML) is a full-time degree program taken over two semesters in person at the Berkeley campus. Students will develop mastery of the computational and statistical foundations of machine learning and AI to create, improve, understand and responsibly deploy and…
August 6, 2026
The Communications of the ACM (CACM) has featured “egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation” as a Research Highlight, showcasing work co-authored by CS Assistant Professor Max Willsey. Originally recognized with a Distinguished Paper Award at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL),…
July 28, 2026
In a study published today in Nature Photonics, researchers designed a computational microscope capable of capturing micron-scale resolution across multi-centimeter areas at faster-than-video rates. Using an array of 48 camera sensors and computational imaging “tricks,” their new microscope was able to capture videos at a rate of…
July 6, 2026
UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics, biology and medicine, to speed discovery…
July 6, 2026
“This breakthrough could help enable a new generation of compact and energy-efficient photonic technologies,” said principal investigator Boubacar Kanté, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab. “More broadly, our approach, which I call orthogonal optoelectronics, enables…
July 2, 2026
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Professor Ana Arias has officially assumed the role of Department Chair. Arias succeeds Jelani Nelson, who is stepping down to take an industrial leave of absence. The…