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Ken Goldberg and Kam Lau, faculty members in the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2026 Class of Fellows. The honor, awarded to 158 inductees this year, is among the highest professional distinctions awarded to engineers.

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) at the University of California and the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) announced the recipients of the 2025 CITRIS-CDSS Innovation Fellowship and AIC Awards.

In just a few years, AI has gone from a tech novelty to a society-altering force. It has revolutionized scientific research, classrooms and workplaces. As a global leader in the development of AI technology as well as research into the ethics, policies and practices around its use, UC Berkeley’s experts are at the forefront of this rapidly changing technology. UC Berkeley News asked some of...

Two UC Berkeley professors – Ana Claudia Arias and Tahir Ghani, both faculty members in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) – have been elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2025 Class of Fellows. The honor, awarded to 185 inductees this year, marks the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.

At the Dec. 5 meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, United Nations, the Multilateral Fund Secretariat and researchers at UC Berkeley debuted an open source modeling tool that provides global policymakers with unprecedented analytical and computing power to reach environmental and climate goals. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (Schmidt...

UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers today released Pillar (Pillar-0), an open-source AI model that analyzes medical images and recognizes conditions with an unprecedented degree of diagnostic accuracy. Unlike existing tools that are limited to a handful of conditions or models primarily designed for 2D images, Pillar-0 interprets 3D volumes directly and can recognize hundreds of conditions from a single CT or MRI exam.

A recent panel discussion at UC Berkeley considered current legal challenges for developers of generative AI (GenAI), as well as economic impacts of the technology. AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Llama have seen a proliferation of users in recent years. The companies developing these GenAI products have also been hit with lawsuits that challenge, among other concerns, the training of proprietary large language...

As artificial intelligence technology continues advancing at a breakneck pace, faculty at UC Berkeley are optimizing computer science courses to keep undergraduate students informed and prepared for changing careers in the tech industry and beyond. Narges Norouzi and Joseph Gonzalez are faculty instructors for this fall’s offering of the CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning course. More than 400 undergraduate students majoring in computer science...

Emma Pierson, who joined the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) earlier this year, was recently named the department’s Zhang Family Endowed Professor. Hao Zhang, M.A. ’05, Ph.D ’07, contributed $1 million to establish the endowment and support junior faculty working on artificial intelligence.

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) has formally partnered with 2i2c, a nonprofit that provides open source support services with shared digital tools and resources for researchers and educators. BIDS is the first premier member of 2i2c’s new community network, recognizing Berkeley’s longstanding contributions and commitment to the development of open source tools and infrastructure.