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…
August 4, 2025
“Here we have an amazing example of how generative AI – with humans in the loop – can be used for good, at a scale that’s unprecedented, for a task that’s never been done before and for societal impact,” said Aditya Parameswaran, an associate professor at UC…
July 31, 2025
Jennifer Chayes, Ion Stoica, Dawn Song, and Emma Pierson are co-authors on the article “Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy” by Rishi Bommasani et al, published by the journal Science on July 31. The article proposes policy mechanisms to address the opportunities and challenges of “increasingly powerful AI.”…
July 28, 2025
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…