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Michael I. Jordan will speak at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley. His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive, biological and social sciences.

Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco are trying to address healthcare needs with artificial intelligence – part of a growing trend in medicine of using AI to augment providers’ work while addressing challenges such as the rising cost of healthcare and disparities in access to medical care. In 2025, Berkeley and UCSF researchers launched Voio, a startup that aims to build AI models...

Researchers from UCSF UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health (CPH) and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) have been awarded a Laude Moonshots seed grant in support of Edge Medicine, an initiative to bring intelligent, always-on AI tools to frontline healthcare in order to improve patients’ everyday lives.

In a recent Science review article, UC Berkeley researchers Jennifer Listgarten and Hanlun Jiang discussed opportunities and challenges in using generative protein models and other AI methods to advance protein engineering.

Matei Zaharia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure. In the prize announcement, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) noted Zaharia’s development of open-source systems helped enable large-scale machine learning, analytics and AI at a global scale.

UC Berkeley’s graduate programs in computer and electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics continue to receive high rankings by U.S. News & World Report, according to 2026 rankings released April 7.

Two members of the CDSS community have been recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards: John DeNero Ph.D. ’10 and Arjun Singh Ph.D. ’16. The awards will be presented by the UC Berkeley Foundation and Cal Alumni Association at the Berkeley Charter Gala on May 21.

Narges Norouzi has been named an NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellow, selected to serve as an ambassador for advancing AI education along with 24 fellows from across the United States. Norouzi is associate dean for students at the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and an associate teaching professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS).

When Roger Lo ’99 left Taiwan to pursue a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, he was not aware how profoundly the experience would shape his future. “My time at Berkeley changed my life,” Lo said.

Aditi Krishnapriyan, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a prestigious 2025 U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award.