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.
September 12, 2025
Andrew R. Neureuther, a distinguished professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away on September 9th, 2025, shortly after his 84th birthday. A true pioneer in the field of microelectronics, he leaves behind a profound legacy that has shaped integrated circuit manufacturing…
September 10, 2025
It was in Birge Hall, adjacent to the Campanile, where he got his first taste of video games in the mid-’70s before receiving his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) in 1976. There, he’d hover over an ancient IBM 704 machine in the lower depths of the physics…
August 27, 2025
In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist and EECS Professor Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency.
August 25, 2025
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.
August 13, 2025
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…