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Faculty honors

Winners of 2022 Bakar Spark Award: Grace Gu, Daniel Klein, Liwei Lin, Angjoo Kanazawa and Phillip Messersmith

Bakar Fellows names Spark Award recipients

06/14/22 — Five engineering faculty among the seven honored for research that produces tangible, positive societal impact through commercialization
Raluca Ada Popa

Raluca Ada Popa receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

05/11/22 — EECS associate professor wins $35,000 prize as outstanding young computer professional for her design of secure distributed systems, protecting confidentiality against attackers while maintaining full functionality
New AAA&S members Gerbrand Ceder and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ceder, Ramesh elected to AAAS

04/28/22 — Materials science and engineering professors are among nine new Berkeley members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Head shot of Rediet Abebe

UC Berkeley’s Rediet Abebe named 2022 Carnegie Fellow

04/26/22 — Honor includes $200,000 stipend to support the assistant professor's examination of evidentiary statistical software used in the criminal legal system
BRETT the robot and Pieter Abbeel

Berkeley robot learning pioneer Pieter Abbeel wins ACM Prize in Computing

04/06/22 — Award, which comes with $250,000, recognizes computing research and contributions that have fundamental impact and broad implications
Ashok Gadgil standing on a boat

Ashok Gadgil wins inaugural Zuckerberg Water Prize

04/05/22 — Award recognizes his outstanding vision and lasting global impact in water research
Grace Gu and Avishay Tal

Early-career scholars named Sloan Research Fellows

02/18/22 — Grace Gu of mechanical engineering and Avishay Tal of electrical engineering and computer sciences are among four UC Berkeley assistant professors receiving the prestigious award
Masayoshi Tomizuka elected to NAE

Masayoshi Tomizuka named to National Academy of Engineering

02/09/22 — Mechanical engineering professor among 76 academy members at Berkeley Engineering
Steve Conolly, Niren Murthy and Kenichi Soga

Innovative faculty members awarded Bakar Prize

02/07/22 — Three Berkeley Engineering faculty — Steve Conolly of bioengineering and EECS, bioengineer Niren Murthy and mineral engineer Kenichi Soga of CEE — are among four winners of the campus's 2022 Bakar Prize for technological innovations that promise solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems
Ruzena Bajcsy and AAAS logo

Ruzena Bajcsy elected to AAAS

01/26/22 — Professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer sciences is one of nine from UC Berkeley named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Colored mesh

8 engineering faculty named biohub investigators

01/11/22 — The eight professors, representing three Berkeley Engineering departments, are among 21 Berkeley faculty members selected by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub for the awards, each worth $1 million over five years.
David Schaffer

QB3 director David Schaffer elected to National Academy of Inventors

12/07/21 — One of 164 new NAI fellows, Shaffer holds appointments at UC Berkeley in chemical and biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, and molecular and cell biology
Stuart Russell

AI pioneer Stuart Russell named 2021 Reith Lecturer

10/14/21 — Premier series of annual lectures, sponsored by the BBC, aims to advance public understanding and discourse of the major issues confronting the world
Lane Martin and Kristin Persson

Berkeley engineers named American Physical Society Fellows

10/13/21 — The honor recognizes the outstanding contributions to physics by Lane Martin and Kristin Persson, both professors in the Department of Materials Science.
Jay Keasling

Jay Keasling receives Distinguished Scientist Fellow award

09/23/21 — Berkeley Lab: Bioengineer and senior faculty scientist is honored by DOE for scientific leadership and engagement with the academic and research communities
Hannah Stuart

Award fuels female STEM leaders

07/02/21 Johnson & Johnson — Mechanical engineering assistant professor Hannah Stuart is one of six 2021 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D scholars
Chenming Hu, Tsu-Jae King Liu and Leon Chua

EECS faculty featured as luminaries in Electron Devices Society podcast series

05/25/21 — Chenming Hu, Tsu-Jae King Liu and Leon Chua share insights from their lives and careers
David Culler

EECS professor David Culler awarded Berkeley Citation

05/21/21 — The prestigious honor, one of the highest given by UC Berkeley, recognizes achievements that exceed the standards of excellence
Head shots of 3 engineering professors

Three engineering faculty receive Young Investigator Award

05/17/21 — Alvin Cheung, Somayeh Sojoudi and Grace Gu to receive highly competitive grants to support their early-career research.
Michael Jordan

EECS professor Michael Jordan named to Royal Society

05/06/21 — Jordan is among 10 foreign members, 52 fellows and one honorary fellow elected to the academy.
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