Peter Bartlett elected to the National Academy of Sciences
04/30/26 — EECS and statistics professor is among six Berkeley researchers recognized for ‘distinguished and continuing achievements in original research’
Computer science
UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers are using AI to revolutionize medical imaging
04/17/26 — EECS professor Adam Yala’s startup strives to make medical imaging more efficient — and more effective
Matei Zaharia awarded ACM Prize in Computing
04/08/26 — CDSS: EECS professor’s visionary development of open-source systems has helped enable large-scale machine learning, analytics and AI at a global scale
Aditi Krishnapriyan receives 2025 DOE Early Career Award
02/18/26 — Berkeley Lab: EECS assistant professor is pioneering innovative, scalable machine learning methods that enable fast and accurate predictions grounded in real-world science
Three UC Berkeley Engineering faculty named 2026 Sloan Fellows
02/17/26 — EECS professors Sarah Chasins, Yuan Cao and John Wright received prestigious award for early-career researchers
Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE
02/10/26 — Ken Goldberg, Kam Lau and Felix Wu are among five UC Berkeley faculty elected to the esteemed organization
Berkeley engineers among innovators featured on Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list
02/02/26 — UC Newsroom: Many are leading the way across AI, entrepreneurship, science and more
Sylvia Ratnasamy named 2025 ACM Fellow
01/21/26 — Computer science professor is recognized ‘for contributions to networks and networked systems’
AI has a bias problem. Can we build something smarter?
01/21/26 — UC Berkeley computer scientist Emma Pierson believes we can if we design algorithms with an eye toward equality
Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new faculty members
01/20/26 — New tenure-track professors will bring their research expertise to multiple departments
After decades searching for ET, UC Berkeley scientists home in on 100 signals
01/12/26 — UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, originally yielded 12 billion signals of interest
Karl van Bibber and Shafi Goldwasser elected to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters
11/14/25 — ‘Distinguished academics’ honored for their outstanding scholarship
Game changer
11/10/25 — Arcade legend Eugene Jarvis looks back on his time as a Berkeley undergrad
For the record
11/10/25 — A new database expands access to California police records on the use of force and misconduct
Building bots on a budget
11/03/25 — Berkeley Humanoid Lite is a low-cost, open-source, customizable robot made of 3D printed parts
Former Air Force chief scientist to guide program development at Berkeley Space Center
10/01/25 — EECS professor Victoria Coleman will lead efforts to forge a research alliance between academia, NASA and the tech industry
$1.3M gift from Ripple launches new Berkeley Center for Digital Assets
10/01/25 — Center to support research on projects ranging from blockchain technology to digital twins of physical assets
UC Berkeley EECS professors receive AI for Math Fund grants
09/25/25 — CDSS: Funded projects will focus on developing systems to help advance mathematical discovery and research
Five students honored as Siebel Scholars
09/19/25 — Foundation announces class of 2026
A token of an arcade legend’s school spirit
09/10/25 — Alum Eugene Jarvis looks back on his time at Berkeley