June 25, 2026
EECS Professor Alyosha “Alexei” Efros has been awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. This honor is awarded annually to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Efros was honored “For pioneering work in data-driven and machine…
June 18, 2026
Professor Emeritus Elijah Lucien Polak, a distinguished researcher, dedicated educator, and cherished member of the campus community, passed away on June 12 at age 94. Polak joined the Berkeley faculty in 1961, embarking on a remarkable career that spanned more than six decades. Over…
June 9, 2026
EECS Assistant Professor Jessica Boles has been selected to receive the University of California’s Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award for the 2026-27 academic year. Granted by the UC Office of the President, this award advances the UC’s commitment to supporting the scholarship,…
June 1, 2026
EECS Professor Claire Tomlin has received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Presented annually by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the award is the highest professional recognition for US control systems engineers and scientists. Established in 1979 and named after applied mathematician Richard Bellman, the…
May 26, 2026
EECS Professor Jitendra Malik has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Announced today by the UK’s national academy of sciences, the prestigious election recognizes Malik alongside a cohort of over 90 outstanding researchers from across the globe who have made…
May 26, 2026
On May 22, the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society held two commencement ceremonies at the Greek Theatre to recognize more than 2,000 students graduating from the college with bachelor of arts degrees in computer science, data science and statistics. CS…
May 19, 2026
EECS Professors Ken Goldberg and Jitendra Malik will lead two UC Berkeley research projects as part of the next phase of the Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program (URP 3.0), a five-year collaboration supporting curiosity-driven research across robotics, AI, mobility, and materials science.Goldberg’s project, “Amplifying Robot Failure…
May 13, 2026
UC Berkeley faculty and key benefactors will gather for a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to celebrate nearing completion on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building, the new home of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS).
May 8, 2026
Frontier-CS placed an open-ended optimization problem in CALICO, UC Berkeley’s official competitive programming contest with 2,000+ human participants. The challenge: beat the AI. Out of all contestants, only one submission surpassed the strongest AI agent.
May 7, 2026
Vice Chancellor for Research and EECS Professor Katherine Yelick has been appointed by the UC Regents as the next director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, effective July 1, 2026. Yelick, the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a senior faculty scientist…
