EECS 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
- C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute
- CLIMB: Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics and Microeconomics at Berkeley
- 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
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 Power and Energy Center
- Berkeley Water Center
- 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
Design and manufacturing
- Berkeley Center for New Media
- BID: Berkeley Institute of Design
- Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center
- Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Ethics, society and educating leaders
- Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
- Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
- 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
- Materials Characterization Facility
- Richmond Field Station
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
For more research groups, visit our departments.