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June 9, 2026
Jessica Boles receives Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award
EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has been selected to receive the University of California’s Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award for the 2026-27 academic year. Granted by the UC Office of the President, this award advances the UC’s commitment to supporting the scholarship,…
June 1, 2026
Claire Tomlin receives the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
EECS Professor Claire Tomlin has received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Presented annually by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the award is the highest professional recognition for US control systems engineers and scientists. Established in 1979 and named after applied mathematician Richard Bellman, the…
May 26, 2026
Jitendra Malik elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society
EECS Professor Jitendra Malik has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Announced today by the UK’s national academy of sciences, the prestigious election recognizes Malik alongside a cohort of over 90 outstanding researchers from across the globe who have made…
May 26, 2026
Human connection emphasized at CDSS undergraduate student commencement
On May 22, the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society held two commencement ceremonies at the Greek Theatre to recognize more than 2,000 students graduating from the college with bachelor of arts degrees in computer science, data science and statistics. CS…
Media Mentions
May 15, 2026
Can a Computer Scientist Still Hope?
CS Professor Armando Fox is featured in this Q/A from the California Education Learning Lab’s Substack. The conversation is a reflective piece that examines the existential and ethical crisis facing the field of computer science in the age of Generative AI.
February 9, 2026
AI research deluge: why one conference is asking authors to rank their own papers
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
TechCrunch: A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains
“Think of it like ChatGPT, but for robots,” Sergey Levine tells me, gesturing toward the motorized ballet unfolding across the room.