November 6, 2025
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, 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
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…
October 7, 2025
Andy Konwinski, serial founder and Berkeley computer science Ph.D. alum, joined Jennifer Chayes, dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), for a spirited discussion on shaping our AI future. More than 200 students and their parents, alumni and members of…
October 7, 2025
UC Berkeley’s Rikky Muller (Ph.D.’13 EECS), associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, can still recall her first glimpse into the world of neurotechnology. At a conference nearly two decades ago, she saw something that didn’t seem possible: chips recording neural signals from the brain, then using those signals to…
October 1, 2025
Lightspeed Venture Partners and UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab have announced a $500,000 partnership to fund pivotal research in EECS amidst a shifting landscape of funding. This marks the first formal venture capital partnership in the history of Sky Computing Lab (which follows the legacy of influential labs like RISELab…
September 25, 2025
Two projects proposed by Berkeley EECS professors recently received funding from the AI for Math Fund to develop systems that help advance mathematical discovery and research. Last week, the AI for Math Fund announced a total of $18 million in grants for 29 projects, one of the…
September 23, 2025
UC Berkeley Engineering holds onto the No. 3 spot in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of undergraduate engineering programs. U.S. News includes rankings for both computer engineering and computer science. Both are housed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, which is shared with the College of…
September 22, 2025
CS Assistant Professors Alane Suhr and Sewon Min have been honored with AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Awards. Suhr received the 2022 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems.” Suhr’s research advances natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and computer vision, with a…
September 19, 2025
Five UC Berkeley students were honored as Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2026. The graduate students — all from computer science — join more than 1,900 distinguished honorees advancing research in the fields of bioengineering, computer science, energy science and business.