Meet our commencement speakers for spring 2025
Baccalaureate

Clifford Chan
General Manager, EBMUD
Master’s

Emmanuel Chao
Hardware Engineering Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
Doctoral

John Schulman
Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab
News
Carlos Quezada named a 2025 University Medal finalist
In turbulent times, civil engineering student excelled through idealism, hard work
Berkeley engineers’ crowd-sourced AI ranking system rises to the top
Chatbot Arena, which allows users to rank and compare AI models, has quickly grown to 1 million monthly users
Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.
Maria Astolfi (Ph.D.’26 BioE) is working toward a new type of partnership with indigenous peoples to create a more ethical bioeconomy
Two Berkeley engineers elected to National Academy of Sciences
Robert Ritchie and Daniel Kammen recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research
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Number of Berkeley Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs ranked in the Top 5 nationally by U.S. News & World Report.
Stellar faculty
Our current and emeritus faculty includes 72 members of the National Academy of Engineering.
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.