Honors & awards

Image of Venkatesan Guruswami, a Chancellor’s Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Berkeley engineer wins 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship

04/07/23 — Venkatesan Guruswami, a Chancellor’s Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, will use the fellowship to develop resource-efficient approaches to solving computational problems

Hari Balakrishnan awarded 2023 Marconi Prize

02/22/23 — Berkeley Engineering alum, innovator and entrepreneur honored for the broad societal impact of his discoveries in mobile sensing, networking and distributed systems

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

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

Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees Jiachen Li and Alison Borklund

Two from Berkeley Engineering named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list

12/09/22 — Magazine cites Ph.D. candidate Jiachen Li for work on an all-season, smart-roof coating, and MEng alumna Alison Burklund of Nanopath for diagnostics that speed treatment of pelvic and gynecologic infections

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

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

Seven graduate students from Berkeley Engineering have been appointed Siebel Scholars.

Seven honored as Siebel Scholars

09/22/22 — Seven Berkeley engineering students have been named to the Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2023

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

T-PREP students collaborate on a design challenge at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

Helping transfer students succeed in engineering

08/15/22 — T-PREP program wins Inspiring Programs in STEM Award for its work to ease the challenging transition from community college to major research university

Researchers win $5M to launch center that advances decentralization technology

08/04/22 — CDSS: Algorand Foundation funding to help democratize access to data and ensure that data remains secure

Kaichen Dong named one of 35 Innovators Under 35

06/30/22 — Kaichen Dong, a Berkeley postdoc in materials science and engineering, has been named among MIT Technology Review’s 2022 35 Innovators Under 35 contest

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

EECS PhD student named 2022 Soros fellow

04/14/22 — Dave Epstein joins other immigrants and children of immigrants chosen for “their potential to make significant contributions to the United States.”

Seven Berkeley engineers honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars

09/23/21 — They are among 82 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.

Engineering student receives rare Generation Change Scholarship

09/21/21 — Sariel Sandoval, a Native American from Montana, gets award for domestic, non-resident students who are game changers, trailblazers, solution seekers and revolutionaries.

NSF awards $12.75M to renew natural hazards simulation center

09/20/21 — The four-year grant to the SimCenter supports research to understand and quantify the effects of natural hazards on buildings, lifelines and communities.

Award fuels female STEM leaders

07/02/21 Johnson & Johnson — Mechanical engineering assistant professor Hannah Stuart is one of six 2021 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D scholars

Top graduating senior a tech whiz and musician

05/10/21 — With full-ride fellowship offers from Stanford and MIT, electrical engineer Leyla Kabuli is sticking with Berkeley.