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
Honors & awards
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
Berkeley engineer wins 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship
04/07/23 — Venkatesan Guruswami, a Chancellor’s Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, will use the fellowship to develop resource-efficient approaches to solving computational problems
Hari Balakrishnan awarded 2023 Marconi Prize
02/22/23 — Berkeley Engineering alum, innovator and entrepreneur honored for the broad societal impact of his discoveries in mobile sensing, networking and distributed systems
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
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 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
Two from Berkeley Engineering named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list
12/09/22 — Magazine cites Ph.D. candidate Jiachen Li for work on an all-season, smart-roof coating, and MEng alumna Alison Burklund of Nanopath for diagnostics that speed treatment of pelvic and gynecologic infections
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
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
Seven honored as Siebel Scholars
09/22/22 — Seven Berkeley engineering students have been named to the Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2023
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
Helping transfer students succeed in engineering
08/15/22 — T-PREP program wins Inspiring Programs in STEM Award for its work to ease the challenging transition from community college to major research university
Researchers win $5M to launch center that advances decentralization technology
08/04/22 — CDSS: Algorand Foundation funding to help democratize access to data and ensure that data remains secure
Kaichen Dong named one of 35 Innovators Under 35
06/30/22 — Kaichen Dong, a Berkeley postdoc in materials science and engineering, has been named among MIT Technology Review’s 2022 35 Innovators Under 35 contest
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
EECS PhD student named 2022 Soros fellow
04/14/22 — Dave Epstein joins other immigrants and children of immigrants chosen for “their potential to make significant contributions to the United States.”
Seven Berkeley engineers honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars
09/23/21 — They are among 82 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.
Engineering student receives rare Generation Change Scholarship
09/21/21 — Sariel Sandoval, a Native American from Montana, gets award for domestic, non-resident students who are game changers, trailblazers, solution seekers and revolutionaries.
NSF awards $12.75M to renew natural hazards simulation center
09/20/21 — The four-year grant to the SimCenter supports research to understand and quantify the effects of natural hazards on buildings, lifelines and communities.