Six students honored as Siebel Scholars

Six UC Berkeley students were honored as Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2025. The graduate students — three from bioengineering and three from computer science — join 1,900 distinguished honorees advancing research across the fields of bioengineering, computer science, energy science and business worldwide. 

The scholars program seeks to bring together great minds through grants of $35,000. Honorees are chosen on the basis of outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership, ranking within the top 10% of their class.

“It is inspiring to see these talented Berkeley Engineering students earn this prestigious honor from the Siebel Scholars Foundation,” said Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean and Roy W. Carlson professor of engineering at Berkeley. “I look forward to seeing all they will accomplish in the year ahead, as Siebel Scholars!”

Meet the 2025 class of Siebel Scholars at Berkeley:

• Cade Gordon, whose research involves studying protein language models for biological design.

• Claire Hilburger, whose research is at the interface of biomaterials, nanotechnology and immunology to engineer materials that can modulate the immune response to control disease phenotypes.

• Jessica Lin, whose upcoming research focus will involve detecting and mitigating deception in large language models (LLMs). 

• Eric Markley, who designed and developed single-shot, high-dimensional computational imaging systems, enhancing imaging capabilities in the Computational Imaging Lab.

• Sakshi Shah, who contributed to the development of a novel nucleic acid cytometry technique (FIND-seq) to identify cells infected with latent HIV and understand molecular mechanisms of viral persistence in people with HIV.

• Oliver Yu, who conducts research at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, specializing in digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits.

The Siebel Scholars Foundation made the announcement today.