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
EECS professor Dawn Song elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 04/28/25 — Organization recognizes leaders from across disciplines and engages them in meeting the nation’s challenges
Podcast: ‘Locked in’ stroke survivor hears her voice again with help from AI 04/28/25 — Researchers describe using a brain-computer interface to restore Ann Johnson’s ability to speak
Ashmita Kumar’s startup aims to detect signs of stroke and save lives 03/31/25 — Using AI and an iPhone, Berkeley EECS student seeks to improve stroke health care
‘RISC architecture is gonna change everything’ 03/31/25 — Wired: David Patterson, CS professor emeritus and inventor of RISC, explains how words from the 1995 movie Hackers may hold true today
Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech 03/31/25 — AI-based model streams intelligible speech from the brain in real time
Dan Garcia receives Distinguished Teaching Award 03/20/25 — EECS teaching professor recognized with campus's highest honor for teaching excellence
Berkeley alum wants to ‘make the planet smarter’ 03/10/25 — Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity, seeks to create a better AI chatbot
Breakthrough method enables rapid discovery of new useful proteins 02/28/25 — IGI: UC Berkeley engineers help develop computational approach to quickly search massive datasets and prioritize proteins to study
New UC Berkeley center to address American competitiveness in advanced technology 02/24/25 — The academic center will engage experts in technology, economics and policy from across academia, industry and non-profit organizations
Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE 02/11/25 — Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer elected to the esteemed organization
UC Berkeley researchers in Sergey Levine’s lab devise a fast, precise way to teach robots complicated tasks 01/29/25 — Using AI, these robots learn skills with startling accuracy
White House honors engineering faculty with early career awards 01/17/25 — Grace Gu, Sergey Levine and Grace O’Connell have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Jelani Nelson considers human thought with computer science tools 01/08/25 — CDSS: Chair of UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division is keeping the curricula ‘fresh’
Public trust in US elections is decreasing. But should it be? 10/15/24 — CDSS: Computer science professors say U.S. elections are more secure, more accurate than 20 years ago
EECS professor Preeya Khanna wins NIH New Innovator Award 10/08/24 — CDSS: Prestigious award supports especially creative, high-impact biomedical and behavioral research by early-career investigators
Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes 10/01/24 — Hany Farid shows how to spot AI-generated political content
Bringing clarity to computational imaging 09/30/24 — New tool removes motion artifacts when imaging dynamic samples
Laura Waller awarded Max Planck-Humboldt Medal 09/10/24 — Max Planck Society: EECS professor recognized for outstanding achievements in computational microscopy