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  • Headshots from left to right: Behcet Açıkmeşe, YoungJu Jo, Michael Sangid and Chenyang Zhong.

    Berkeley Engineering welcomes four new faculty to campus

    This fall, UC Berkeley Engineering welcomes four new faculty members to its roster. These tenure-track professors will bring their wide range of expertise to four departments across the college. Behcet Açıkmeşe, Chancellor’s Professor of aerospace engineering With a storied background in aerospace, Açıkmeşe developed control algorithms for planetary landing, spacecraft formation flying and asteroid and […]
  • Headshots of professors Ronald Fearing and Ali Javey and neurosurgeon Ezequiel Goldschmidt.

    Berkeley researchers receive ARPA-H award

    Team will receive up to $19.3M in funding to transform lifesaving medical interventions with autonomous robotic surgeries
  • Dawn Song on stage giving a talk.

    UC Berkeley computer scientist on the promise and perils of agentic AI

    Professor Dawn Song discusses how autonomous AI agents are reshaping technology — and why safety, reliability and democratization must guide their development

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Pieter Abbeel

Leaping robots, AI companies and a NASA mission

A new “Berkeley Talks” episode highlights the remarkable journeys of those mentored by EECS professor Pieter Abbeel
Cars and houses in the community of Pajaro partially submerged in river water following a flood.

Can ‘digital twins’ help California manage its growing flood risk?

UC Berkeley researchers are creating virtual simulations of the Lower Pajaro River Valley to better integrate ecology, climate change and social equity into flood management
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Photo of Vir Karan, Gerbrand Ceder and Kristin Persson standing together in their research lab.

New AI modeling approach accelerates the development of advanced materials

Berkeley Lab: Innovative machine learning model can help researchers avoid years of experimental trial and error
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Trajectories (color-coded by time) of a few dozen C. elegans freely moving across a field of view greater than 5 square centimeters.

Bringing it all into focus

Researchers have developed a new high-throughput microscope for large-scale imaging of dynamic samples
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From award winning faculty to highly ranked programs to innovative students and alum, the Berkeley Engineering community is making an impact on our world every day.

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Stellar faculty

Our current and emeritus faculty includes 75 members of the National Academy of Engineering.

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UCOP and campus updates on federal actions

For more information the recent federal actions, please visit the UCOP federal updates page and the UC Berkeley federal updates page.

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