Ashmita Kumar’s startup aims to detect signs of stroke and save lives
03/31/25 — Using AI and an iPhone, Berkeley M.E.T. student seeks to improve stroke health care
Computer science
‘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
Six students honored as Siebel Scholars
09/20/24 — Foundation announces class of 2025
Laura Waller awarded Max Planck-Humboldt Medal
09/10/24 — Max Planck Society: EECS professor recognized for outstanding achievements in computational microscopy
Young cricket star had to rethink future after eye injury
08/26/24 — New EECS student Vihaan Hampihallikar then started a project to help others get the health care they needed
CS Ph.D. student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities
08/01/24 — CDSS: Hellina Hailu Nigatu to develop computing tools with “community values in mind”
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
05/31/24 — MIT Technology Review: Researchers are using generative AI, other techniques to teach robots new skills — including tasks they could perform in homes