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Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Japan. The scientists were cited for creating “molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow. These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be used to...

How can we increase opportunities and limit the harms of AI? An event during last weekend’s Berkeley Homecoming considered opportunities and challenges in harnessing the technology for the public good. Andy Konwinski, serial founder and Berkeley computer science Ph.D. alum, joined Jennifer Chayes, dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), for a spirited discussion on shaping our AI future.

On a sunny late summer day, UC Berkeley Department of Statistics’ faculty, students, alumni, researchers and industry partners gathered on campus to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the department’s founding. The anniversary was a featured highlight at the Berkeley Statistics Annual Research Symposium (BSTARS) on Sept. 17 at California Memorial Stadium’s University Club.

Two projects proposed by Berkeley EECS professors recently received funding from the AI for Math Fund to develop systems that help advance mathematical discovery and research. The UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and the College of Engineering share the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). Last week, the AI for Math Fund announced a total of $18 million in...

UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the 2026 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today. The university also held its No. 2 ranking in computer science at the undergraduate level. It shared that spot with Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. Berkeley was named the top public university in the rankings and recognized for its excellence in undergraduate...

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) and the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), in partnership with the Academic Innovation Catalyst (AIC), are pleased to announce the CITRIS-CDSS Innovation Fellowship program and AIC Awards.

In two new papers published online Aug. 27 in the journal Science Robotics, Berkeley robotics expert Ken Goldberg describes how what he calls the “100,000-year data gap” will prevent robots from gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency.

UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed 17 new faculty in statistics, electrical engineering and computer sciences, and computational precision health to its community this year.

As a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, Claire Tomlin has spent her career researching ways to enable autonomous systems to navigate safely. But over the past four years as department chair, she also focused on responsibly steering EECS during a time of significant change.

Public records about use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers – some 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law enforcement agencies – will now be searchable by the public for the first time thanks to a new database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University and published by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, KQED and CalMatters.