October 2, 2026
Schmidt Sciences has named EECS Assistant Professor Irene Chen as a 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Her work will focus on studying the hidden failures of AI when used for important decisions. This year’s cohort includes 28 researchers receiving up to $16 million over three years to…
August 28, 2026
UC Berkeley News interviewed Dawn Song, a professor of computer science and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence. In an email conversation, Song discusses the unique safety challenges posed by agentic AI, where the field is heading next and how events like the Agentic…
May 19, 2026
EECS Professors Ken Goldberg and Jitendra Malik will lead two UC Berkeley research projects as part of the next phase of the Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program (URP 3.0), a five-year collaboration supporting curiosity-driven research across robotics, AI, mobility, and materials science.Goldberg’s project, “Amplifying Robot Failure…
April 17, 2026
In 2025, Berkeley and UCSF researchers launched Voio, a startup that aims to build AI models to help radiologists interpret images faster and more accurately. Voio’s tools are being designed to generate draft reports, freeing up radiologists to focus on patients, and to predict patient risk for…
April 15, 2026
In a recent Science review article, UC Berkeley researchers Jennifer Listgarten and Hanlun Jiang discussed opportunities and challenges in using generative protein models and other AI methods to advance protein engineering.
April 2, 2026
Three research projects featuring contributors from Sky Computing Lab have recently been selected for Laude’s Slingshot program. Featured Research Projects: Continual Learning Benchmark Researchers: Parth Asawa, Matei Zaharia A benchmark that…
March 19, 2026
Narges Norouzi has been named an NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellow, selected to serve as an ambassador for advancing AI education along with 24 fellows from across the United States. Norouzi is associate dean for students at the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data…
February 9, 2026
Emma Pierson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, agrees that self-rankings are an “exciting possibility”. “You know which papers are your ‘baby’, which papers you really love,” she says. “I think the author’s own self-ranking would be one valuable source of input if you…
February 2, 2026
“Think of it like ChatGPT, but for robots,” Sergey Levine tells me, gesturing toward the motorized ballet unfolding across the room.
January 20, 2026
How will AI disrupt the labor market? What will deepfake videos mean for our understanding of truth? Are we in a bubble, and if so, will the bubble burst?