January 20, 2026
This spring, Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new tenure-track professors, who will bring their research expertise and fresh perspectives to multiple departments. The new EECS faculty are Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Asir Intisar Khan, and Kater Murch.
December 18, 2025
EECS Professor Umesh Vazirani and co-authors Aranyak Mehta, Amin Saberi, and Vijay Vazirani are recipients of the FOCS Test of Time Award for their 2005 paper, “AdWords and Generalized On-line Matching.” Presented annually at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)…
December 17, 2025
Somayeh Sojoudi, Associate Professor-in-Residence of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, has been named an IEEE Fellow in the class of 2026 “for contributions to optimization and learning techniques for complex systems.” The IEEE Fellow distinction is the highest grade of membership…
December 16, 2025
EECS Professor Emeritus Randy Katz will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete. The honorary doctorate is a distinction awarded by the University of Crete to recognize outstanding achievements in scholarship, science, and societal impact.
December 11, 2025
Two UC Berkeley professors — Ana Claudia Arias and Tahir Ghani, both faculty members in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) — have been elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2025 Class of Fellows. The honor, awarded to 169 inductees this year,…
December 8, 2025
CS Assistant Professor Serina Chang, a rising star in AI and computational health research, has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in the healthcare category, a recognition reserved for individuals under 30 who are making significant strides in health, technology, and social impact.
December 5, 2025
Dr. Rahul Iyer and Dr. Yicheng Zhu, members of EECS Professor Robert Pilawa Podgurski’s research group, have received the PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award for their outstanding doctoral research and presentations at the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) conference. The PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk…
December 4, 2025
UC Berkeley’s Data Science Undergraduate Studies (DSUS) program, home to the nation’s top-ranked undergraduate data science major, continues to evolve its curriculum with faculty and student instructors. In the Data 101: Data Engineering course, collaboration recently led to a new instructional tool developed by graduate student instructor…
December 4, 2025
EECS and Statistics Professor Emeritus Michael I. Jordan has been elected to two prestigious international academies: the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as a Foreign Member, and the Italian Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia (AICT).Election to CAS is among the highest honors bestowed by China’s national scientific…
December 2, 2025
Venkatesan Guruswami has been selected as the new director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, following an international search. The Simons Institute is the world’s foremost center for collaborative research in theoretical computer science, bringing together scholars to tackle foundational questions…