February 10, 2026
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that three UC Berkeley Engineering faculty members — Ken Goldberg, Kam Lau and Felix Wu — have been elected to its ranks. The number of engineering faculty members in the NAE is now 74. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to…
February 6, 2026
EECS graduate student Wentao Xu, member of Prof. Jessica Boles’ research group, has received the Piezo MEMS Design Challenge Innovation Award at the IEEE MEMS 2026 International Conference. Wentao conducts research in power electronics and is currently exploring how piezoelectric resonators may be…
January 22, 2026
Three EECS undergraduates have been recognized by the Computing Research Association (CRA) in this year’s prestigious Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. Student Recognition Nominator Victoria Phelps Finalist Dan Garcia Tyler Hou Honorable Mention Max Willsey Kelly Tou…
January 21, 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Sylvia Ratnasamy, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, to its 2025 class of ACM Fellows. Ratnasamy is being recognized “for contributions to networks and networked systems.” Ratnasamy is widely known for her seminal work on…
January 20, 2026
Narges Norouzi and John DeNero, associate teaching professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences, have developed Askademia, a context-aware system that responds to student questions in real-time during both live lectures and asynchronous viewing. To deliver fast, accurate answers, Askademia draws from the latest instructor audio and…
January 20, 2026
From assessing a patient’s cancer risk to setting criminal sentences, AI and algorithms are increasingly used to make life-altering decisions in health care and law. But how can we ensure that these algorithms are designed to remove the biases inherent to human decision-making, rather than reproducing them?…
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.