Computer science

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

Illustration of proteins as colorful, ribbon-like structures.

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

Mark Liu, former executive chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), speaking at a podium. To ensure American technology competitiveness in the long term, Liu is establishing the Technology Competitiveness and Industrial Policy Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

New UC Berkeley center to address American competitiveness in advanced technology

02/24/25 — TCIP: The academic center will engage experts in technology, economics and policy from across academia, industry and non-profit organizations

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

EECS professor Sergey Levine poses for a portrait in his lab at Berkeley Way West in Berkeley, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020.

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

The White House has announced that Grace Gu, Sergey Levine and Grace O’Connell (left to right) are among this year

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’

People vote at private kiosks as others wait in line.

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

Hany Farid, UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and in the School of Information, discusses how to spot political deepfakes.

Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes

10/01/24 — Hany Farid shows how to spot AI-generated political content

The 3D rendering of mitochondria overlaid by the motion map. The 3D volume was captured by a 3D SIM microscope in the Biological Imaging Facility and reconstructed by NSTM using the compute cluster from the Advanced Bioimaging Center.

Bringing clarity to computational imaging

09/30/24 — New tool removes motion artifacts when imaging dynamic samples

Collage of headshots of Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2025

Six students honored as Siebel Scholars

09/20/24 — Foundation announces class of 2025

Laura Waller, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences.

Laura Waller awarded Max Planck-Humboldt Medal

09/10/24 — Max Planck Society: EECS professor recognized for outstanding achievements in computational microscopy

Vihaan Hampihallikar is a first-year student at UC Berkeley, where he

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

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, computer science Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley.

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”

Stretch robot presents a rose in its gripper.

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

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.

Five engineers among 2024 Spark Award winners: (top row, from left) Adam Yala, Jennifer Listgarten, Liana Lareau; (bottom row, from left) Zakaria Al Balushi, Robert Pilawa-Podgurski.

Five engineering professors among 2024 Spark Award winners

05/22/24 — Bakar Fellows Program: Recipients embody the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines UC Berkeley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem

Kathy Yelick, vice chancellor for research and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.

Q&A: EECS professor Kathy Yelick on post-exascale computing challenges

05/02/24 — HPCwire: UC Berkeley’s vice chancellor for research discusses evolving computing demands as we approach the zettascale era