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January 22, 2026

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award recognizes EECS

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 Honorable Mention Kris Pister The CRA noted that…

January 21, 2026

Sylvia Ratnasamy named 2025 ACM Fellow

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

UC Berkeley professors explore new ways to integrate AI in engineering courses

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

AI has a bias problem. Can we build something smarter?

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?…