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Home > Research & faculty > Centers and institutes
Pieter Abbeel with BRETTEECS professor Pieter Abbeel with BRETT, the deep-learning Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Centers and institutes

Berkeley Engineering’s research centers, institutes and labs promote cross-disciplinary collaboration to magnify impact on global challenges. Here, our faculty interact with industry colleagues and provide students with advanced training in cutting-edge fields.

Information technology and science

  • BAIR Lab: Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence
  • Berkeley Institute for Data Science
  • Berkeley Laboratory for Information and System Sciences
  • Berkeley Wireless Research Center
  • BETR: Berkeley Emerging Technologies
  • CITRIS: Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
  • FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality
  • Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
  • Sky Computing Lab
  • SLICE Lab: SpeciaLIzed Computing Ecosystems

Smart and secure infrastructure

  • Center for Smart Infrastructure
  • Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Center
  • Institute of Transportation Studies
  • PATH: Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
  • BRAVO: Berkeley Research for Autonomous Vehicle Opportunities
  • PEER: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
  • SWARM Lab
  • TRUST: Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology

Health and bioscience

  • Berkeley Stem Cell Center
  • Center for Computational Biology
  • Center for Neural Engineering & Prostheses
  • CiBER: Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research
  • Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
  • QB3: California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

Energy, environment and sustainability

  • Alt:Meat Lab
  • BERC: Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative
  • Berkeley Water Center
  • Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S)
  • California Institute for Energy and Environment
  • Cool Climate Network
  • Energy Biosciences Institute
  • Fire Research Group
  • Next Generation Food Systems Center
  • JBEI: Joint BioEnergy Institute
  • Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
  • Renewable & Appropriate Energy Laboratory

Development engineering

  • Blum Center for Developing Economies
  • Development Impact Lab

Design and manufacturing

  • Berkeley Center for New Media
  • BID: Berkeley Institute of Design
  • Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center
  • Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

Educating leaders

  • Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
  • Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology

Affiliated research units

  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Space Sciences Laboratory

Facilities

  • Berkeley Research IT
  • Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center
  • CITRIS Invention Lab
  • Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory

Administration and commercialization

  • Berkeley Innovators
  • Engineering Research Support Organization (ERSO)
  • The Foundry@CITRIS
  • Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
  • SkyDeck
  • Vice Chancellor for Research

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