Faculty honors

Angjoo Kanazawa named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow

02/15/23 — Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences is among six young Berkeley faculty honored for their creativity, innovation, research accomplishments and potential to become a leader in their field

Photo of EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award

02/08/23 — Berkeley engineering professor honored for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that powers today’s electronic devices

Photo of civil and environmental engineering professor Kenichi Soga.

Kenichi Soga named to the NAE

02/07/23 — Berkeley geotechnical engineer receives one of the highest professional honors accorded an American engineer

Photo of Kristin Persson, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Kristin Persson among 11 Berkeley faculty elected to AAAS

01/31/23 — Professor of materials science and engineering and director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry elected a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work on the Materials Project

UC Berkeley physics and engineering professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors.

Ramamoorthy Ramesh elected to the National Academy of Inventors

12/08/22 — Berkeley engineer and physicist receives the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors for his pioneering work in materials science

Michael Yartsev in his lab with blue and yellow light simulating bat flight paths.

Yartsev wins Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

11/14/22 — Bioengineering professor Michael Yartsev named 2022 Young Investigator by the Society for Neuroscience in recognition of his work on the neural complexity of free-flying bats

Aaron Streets named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10

10/19/22 — CDSS: The list honors trailblazing early-career scientists and engineers who are tackling pressing challenges with innovative solutions

Berkeley professor Michael Jordan wins inaugural World Laureates Association Prize

09/29/22 — The WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics includes a $1.4 million (RMB 10 million) award

Ting Xu holding two vials. On the right is the Falling Walls Foundation line, "I am a Falling Walls Breakthrough."

Berkeley’s Ting Xu wins Science Breakthrough of the Year award from Falling Walls Foundation

09/16/22 — Xu's work on plastic degradation wins recognition in the Engineering and Technology category

Winners of 2022 Bakar Spark Award: Grace Gu, Daniel Klein, Liwei Lin, Angjoo Kanazawa and Phillip Messersmith

Bakar Fellows names Spark Award recipients

06/14/22 — Five engineering faculty among the seven honored for research that produces tangible, positive societal impact through commercialization

Raluca Ada Popa receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

05/11/22 — EECS associate professor wins $35,000 prize as outstanding young computer professional for her design of secure distributed systems, protecting confidentiality against attackers while maintaining full functionality

New AAA&S members Gerbrand Ceder and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ceder, Ramesh elected to AAAS

04/28/22 — Materials science and engineering professors are among nine new Berkeley members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

UC Berkeley’s Rediet Abebe named 2022 Carnegie Fellow

04/26/22 — Honor includes $200,000 stipend to support the assistant professor's examination of evidentiary statistical software used in the criminal legal system

Berkeley robot learning pioneer Pieter Abbeel wins ACM Prize in Computing

04/06/22 — Award, which comes with $250,000, recognizes computing research and contributions that have fundamental impact and broad implications

Ashok Gadgil wins inaugural Zuckerberg Water Prize

04/05/22 — Award recognizes his outstanding vision and lasting global impact in water research

Early-career scholars named Sloan Research Fellows

02/18/22 — Grace Gu of mechanical engineering and Avishay Tal of electrical engineering and computer sciences are among four UC Berkeley assistant professors receiving the prestigious award

Masayoshi Tomizuka named to National Academy of Engineering

02/09/22 — Mechanical engineering professor among 76 academy members at Berkeley Engineering

Steve Conolly, Niren Murthy and Kenichi Soga

Innovative faculty members awarded Bakar Prize

02/07/22 — Three Berkeley Engineering faculty — Steve Conolly of bioengineering and EECS, bioengineer Niren Murthy and mineral engineer Kenichi Soga of CEE — are among four winners of the campus's 2022 Bakar Prize for technological innovations that promise solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems

Ruzena Bajcsy elected to AAAS

01/26/22 — Professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer sciences is one of nine from UC Berkeley named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

8 engineering faculty named biohub investigators

01/11/22 — The eight professors, representing three Berkeley Engineering departments, are among 21 Berkeley faculty members selected by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub for the awards, each worth $1 million over five years.