Computer science

Paige Balcom, Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, from left, Berkeley alums featured in the award-winning documentary “Pathways to Invention.”

UC Berkeley innovators featured in ‘Pathways to Invention’ film

04/26/24 — Special to debut in May on PBS stations and streaming apps

Photo of EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

04/24/24 — Berkeley EECS professor recognized for excellence in developing and improving a variety of modern electronics systems

EECS professor Hany Farid and I School Ph.D. students featured on PBS Nova

04/17/24 — School of Information: The episode, “A.I. Revolution,” covers the dangers of deepfakes — and how easily they can be created

Francisca Vasconcelos, a doctoral student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Francisca Vasconcelos chosen as Paul and Daisy Soros New American fellow

04/17/24 — CDSS: EECS doctoral student to receive up to $90,000 through merit-based program for immigrants, children of immigrants

A pink robot hand and a pink human hand reach for each other against a blue background.

How to keep AI from killing us all

04/09/24 — UC Berkeley researchers: Companies should not be allowed to create advanced AI systems until they can prove they are safe

McLaughlin Hall, College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Berkeley Engineering celebrates 2024 mentoring award winners

03/27/24 — Recipients recognized by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division for helping students succeed

EU AI Act panel (from left to right): Yiaway Yeh, Deborah Raji, Stuart Russell, Gerard de Graaf and Pamela Samuelson.

UC Berkeley summit tackles AI governance, trust, ethical tech

03/21/24 — School of Information: Computer scientists Stuart Russell and Deborah Raji discuss European Union AI Act

(from left) UC Berkeley professors Hillel Adesnik, Laura Waller, and Rikky Muller, and UC Berkeley graduate student Liz Murray pose in Waller’s lab with a prototype of their neurotechnology for two-way communication with the brain.

Mind-blowing science: ‘Star Wars-style’ holograms to communicate with the brain

03/19/24 — CZ Biohub: UC Berkeley scientists are taking brain-machine interfaces to a new level with support from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco

Photo of Nika Haghtalab, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences.

EECS professor named Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow

03/04/24 — CDSS: Nika Haghtalab among cohort that will conduct ambitious artificial intelligence research to benefit society

Photo of Niklaus Wirth in 1984, when he won the prestigious Turing Award. On the left is “Lilith,” one of the world’s first computer workstations with a high-resolution graphic display and a mouse, and a forerunner of today’s personal computers.

Niklaus Wirth, visionary software architect, has died

02/28/24 — New York Times: Berkeley Engineering alum (Ph.D.’63 EECS) and creator of the Pascal programming language saw power in simplicity

Headshots of EECS assistant professors (from left) Nika Haghtalab, Preeya Khanna, Yakun Sophia Shao.

Three EECS professors win prized Sloan Research Fellowships

02/20/24 — Nika Haghtalab, Preeya Khanna, Yakun Sophia Shao among nine young faculty at UC Berkeley named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows

Photo of Augmental co-founder Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS).

Berkeley alum develops tongue-controlled touchpad

01/30/24 — Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS) seeks to create a new paradigm in assistive technologies

Human-sized robot taught itself to walk and balance, then strolled Berkeley’s streets

12/19/23 — SFGATE: Berkeley researchers used billions of simulations and reinforcement learning to teach the robot how to move

Dan Garcia lectures in front of a classroom with seated students in front of him. Several students have their hands raised.

Making the grade

12/01/23 — EECS professors develop ‘A’s for All’ pilot

Photo illustration showing a collage of mathematical images, a person using a smart phone, and insurrectionists.

Disinformation nation: What can we do to crack the code?

11/20/23 — Berkeley researchers “probe the corrosive effects of algorithms, machine learning and other exotic technologies” and offer possible solutions

Researchers develop design tool to optimize quantum optics circuits in silicon

11/13/23 — New machine learning-based optimization method for nonlinear and quantum optics may open the door to large-scale communication and quantum computing applications

Image of Berkeley Campanile in an interactive 3D graphic flyover, made with Nerfstudio.

Plug-and-play

11/06/23 — Researchers have developed a Python framework that makes it easier to collaborate and incorporate NeRF technology into projects.

Rendering of a quantum computer, side view.

Umesh Vazirani awarded $2.4M grant from DOE

10/30/23 — Research will explore ways to advance production-ready quantum computing

Illustration of AI microchip on a motherboard circuit with shades of purple and pink.

$15.3M awarded to CA-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub

10/13/23 — UC Berkeley to co-lead Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Defense

Should we take election forecasts seriously? A computer scientist says yes

08/17/23 — CDSS: Heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, election forecaster and Berkeley Engineering alum Lakshya Jain shares how computing has changed political prediction efforts