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
Faculty honors
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
Sylvia Ratnasamy named 2025 ACM Fellow
01/21/26 — Computer science professor is recognized ‘for contributions to networks and networked systems’
Two UC Berkeley professors elected to the National Academy of Inventors
12/11/25 — Ana Claudia Arias and Tahir Ghani named as 2025 fellows
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
Dan Fletcher named to National Academy of Medicine
10/21/25 — Bioengineering professor recognized for his work developing mobile phone-based microscopy to diagnose infectious diseases in developing countries
UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
10/08/25 — Created metal-organic frameworks that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases, catalyze chemical reactions
Three professors named to NAE
06/11/25 — Professors Kristin Person, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer were elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
EECS professor Stuart Russell elected to Royal Society
05/23/25 — The British computer scientist has joined 89 other “exceptional scientists”
Two Berkeley engineers elected to National Academy of Sciences
05/02/25 — Robert Ritchie and Daniel Kammen recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research
Sayeef Salahuddin named to NSTC Technical Advisory Board
05/01/25 — NSTC: EECS professor will help shape the National Semiconductor Technology Center Research Agenda, advance U.S.-led innovation and economic and national security
EECS professor Dawn Song elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04/28/25 — Organization recognizes leaders from across disciplines and engages them in meeting the nation’s challenges
Phillip Messersmith named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
03/27/25 — BioE professor honored for 'distinguished contributions' in wet biological adhesion and biologically inspired materials
Dan Garcia receives Distinguished Teaching Award
03/20/25 — EECS teaching professor recognized with campus's highest honor for teaching excellence
Two EECS faculty earn Sloan Research Fellowships
02/18/25 — Natacha Crooks and Song Mei awarded prestigious honor for early career researchers
Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE
02/11/25 — Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer elected to the esteemed organization
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)
Homayoon Kazerooni elected to the National Academy of Inventors
12/10/24 — A leading expert in robotics and human-machine systems, he has created medical exoskeletons that enable paralyzed individuals to stand and walk
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