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September 19, 2025

Five students honored as Siebel Scholars

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.

August 25, 2025

UC Berkeley EECS welcomes 11 new faculty members

This fall, UC Berkeley Engineering welcomes 11 new faculty members to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, which is shared with the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society.

Prof. Chang is presented the award plaque at the KDD conference.

August 13, 2025

Serina Chang wins ACM KDD Dissertation Award

CS Assistant Professor Serina Chang, who joined UC Berkeley EECS in July, has been honored with the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) Dissertation Award for her thesis, “Computational Methods for Human Networks and High-Stakes Decisions.” Chang’s work sits at the intersection of AI…

July 28, 2025

BPEC Researchers win two Best Paper Awards at IEEE COMPEL 2024

Berkeley Power and Energy Center (BPEC) researchers have received two of the three Best Paper Awards at the 2024 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling of Power Electronics (COMPEL). EECS graduate student Roderick Bayliss III and EECS Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski’s paper, “An Input Inductor Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Utilizing a…

July 24, 2025

Qinghua Ding wins IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

EECS Ph.D. student Qinghua Ding has been awarded the 2025 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). This prestigious award recognizes outstanding student-authored papers presented at ISIT, one of the premier conferences in information theory. Ding was selected for the paper,…