Alumni

Anastasios Angelopoulos (L) and Wei-Lin Chiang, founders of Chatbot Arena.

Berkeley engineers’ crowd-sourced AI ranking system rises to the top

05/07/25 — Chatbot Arena, which allows users to rank and compare AI models, has quickly grown to 1 million monthly users

Aravind Srinivas (Ph.D.’21 CS), co-founder and CEO of Perplexity.

Berkeley alum wants to ‘make the planet smarter’

03/10/25 — Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity, seeks to create a better AI chatbot

Photo of Michael and Janelle Grimes wearing hard hats and shoveling dirt at the Engineering Center groundbreaking ceremony.

New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes

02/19/25 — The honor recognizes benefactors who have made outstanding contributions to the campus and its students

Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer (left to right)

Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE

02/11/25 — Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer elected to the esteemed organization

Farewell

11/20/24 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

New & noteworthy

11/20/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Closeup on laptop screen with the Ava transcription service. (Courtesy of Ava)

Big Ideas Contest participant enhances accessibility for Deaf community

11/12/24 — Berkeley Engineering alum founded app that uses AI to offer real-time captioning

Christopher Sutardja (B.S.’10, Ph.D.’17 EECS), Sehat Sutardja (M.S.’85, Ph.D.’88 EECS), Weili Dai (B.A.’84 CS), Nicholas Sutardja (B.A.’12 Applied Mathematics; B.S.’12, Ph.D.’19 EECS), from left, during CITRIS and Sutardja Dai Hall grand opening at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Dai Hall in Berkeley, Calif. on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009.

Sehat Sutardja, semiconductor pioneer and Marvell co-founder, has died

09/19/24 — Alum was longtime supporter, board member of Berkeley Engineering

on the left: Ashok Gadgil, professor of the graduate school at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in the middle: EECS professor Boubacar Kanté in his Cory Hall lab on the right: BB-8 from Star Wars

Summer magazine is here

06/05/24 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features laser technology, BB-8 and a new interdisciplinary class that explores the relationship between art, AI and robotics

Three professors elected to NAE

05/31/24 — Arpad Horvath, Ravi Prasher and Ion Stoica — as well as nine Berkeley Engineering alums — were inducted by the organization.

Hands wearing blue gloves hold a tongue-controlled MouthPad^ touchpad.

A new paradigm

05/31/24 — Augmental, a company co-founded by alum Corten Singer, has developed a unique tongue-controlled touchpad.

Farewell

05/31/24 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

New & noteworthy

05/31/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Paige Balcom, Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, from left, Berkeley alums featured in the award-winning documentary “Pathways to Invention.”

UC Berkeley innovators featured in ‘Pathways to Invention’ film

04/26/24 — Special to debut in May on PBS stations and streaming apps

Photo of Niklaus Wirth in 1984, when he won the prestigious Turing Award. On the left is “Lilith,” one of the world’s first computer workstations with a high-resolution graphic display and a mouse, and a forerunner of today’s personal computers.

Niklaus Wirth, visionary software architect, has died

02/28/24 — New York Times: Berkeley Engineering alum (Ph.D.’63 EECS) and creator of the Pascal programming language saw power in simplicity

Photo of Augmental co-founder Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS).

Berkeley alum develops tongue-controlled touchpad

01/30/24 — Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS) seeks to create a new paradigm in assistive technologies

Stack of Berkeley Engineer Fall 2023 magazines

Fall magazine is here

11/06/23 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features a renaissance in nuclear power, innovating the next generation of batteries, and unearthing a legacy

The greening of jeans

11/06/23 — Huue, a company co-founded by alum Tammy Hsu, uses biotechnology to create environmentally friendly dyes for denim.

New & noteworthy

11/06/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Farewell

11/06/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.