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Faculty honors

Photo of Ashok Gadgil, wearing the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, shaking hands with President Biden.

Ashok Gadgil awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation

10/24/23 — Distinguished CEE professor's technological innovations have profoundly benefited low-resource communities worldwide
Bronze bust of mechanical engineer Joseph Thomas Gier in the Blum Hall courtyard

‘Shoulders to stand on’

09/22/23 — Daily Cal: Statue of Berkeley engineer Joseph Thomas Gier, UC system's first tenured Black professor, unveiled in Blum Hall courtyard
Sanjam Garg, Ronald Fearing and Phillip Messersmith

Three Berkeley Engineering professors selected for Bakar Fellows Spark Awards

08/31/23 Berkeley News — Awards will provide support for innovative research in cryptography, robotics and medicine
Ashok Gadgil standing on a boat

Ashok Gadgil wins inaugural R&D Leader of the Year award

08/24/23 — R&D World magazine cited the distinguished professor's 30+ years of innovations that profoundly benefited low-resource communities
Headshots of Hannah Stuart (left) and Grigory Tikhomirov

Two Berkeley Engineering professors earn NSF CAREER Awards

05/24/23 — Hannah Stuart and Grigory Tikhomirov recognized for research with real-world impact
A headshot of Jelani Nelson in front of a blue background

Jelani Nelson wins ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions

05/22/23 — CS professor honored for founding and developing AddisCoder

Distinguished Teaching Awards

05/17/23 — Abigail De Kosnik and Joshua Hug are among this year’s recipients of the prestigious honor.
Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell receives ACM’s AAAI Allen Newell Award

05/04/23 — EECS professor is recognized for fundamental achievements in AI
Yakun Sophia Shao and Gireeja Ranade

Two EECS professors recognized with NSF CAREER Awards

05/02/23 — Honors for Gireeja Ranade and Yakun Sophia Shao are among the agency’s most competitive for early career professionals
Headshots of Joshua Hug on the left, and Abigail de Kosnik on the right.

Berkeley Engineering faculty win 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award

03/17/23 — Joshua Hug, EECS teaching professor, and Abigail De Kosnik, director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, are among five to receive the prestigious honor
Photo of Ricky Muller and Jaijeet Roychowdhury, professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences and 2023 Bakar Prize winners

Rikky Muller and Jaijeet Roychowdhury named 2023 Bakar Prize winners

02/22/23 — Electrical engineering and computer sciences professors among four Berkeley faculty to be awarded additional resources to help translate their discoveries into real-world solutions
Angjoo Kanazawa

Angjoo Kanazawa named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow

02/15/23 — Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences is among six young Berkeley faculty honored for their creativity, innovation, research accomplishments and potential to become a leader in their field
Photo of EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award

02/08/23 — Berkeley engineering professor honored for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that powers today’s electronic devices
Photo of civil and environmental engineering professor Kenichi Soga.

Kenichi Soga named to the NAE

02/07/23 — Berkeley geotechnical engineer receives one of the highest professional honors accorded an American engineer
Kristin Persson

Kristin Persson among 11 Berkeley faculty elected to AAAS

01/31/23 — Professor of materials science and engineering and director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry elected a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work on the Materials Project
UC Berkeley physics and engineering professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors.

Ramamoorthy Ramesh elected to the National Academy of Inventors

12/08/22 — Berkeley engineer and physicist receives the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors for his pioneering work in materials science
Michael Yartsev in his lab with blue and yellow light simulating bat flight paths.

Yartsev wins Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

11/14/22 — Bioengineering professor Michael Yartsev named 2022 Young Investigator by the Society for Neuroscience in recognition of his work on the neural complexity of free-flying bats
Aaron Streets standing at a podium

Aaron Streets named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10

10/19/22 — CDSS: The list honors trailblazing early-career scientists and engineers who are tackling pressing challenges with innovative solutions
Michael Jordan standing in doorway.

Berkeley professor Michael Jordan wins inaugural World Laureates Association Prize

09/29/22 — The WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics includes a $1.4 million (RMB 10 million) award
Ting Xu holding two vials. On the right is the Falling Walls Foundation line, "I am a Falling Walls Breakthrough."

Berkeley’s Ting Xu wins Science Breakthrough of the Year award from Falling Walls Foundation

09/16/22 — Xu's work on plastic degradation wins recognition in the Engineering and Technology category
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