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.
Three early-career faculty in the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) – Yuan Cao, Sarah E. Chasins, and John Wright – have been awarded prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowship is granted annually to “honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders,” according...
Ken Goldberg, Kam Lau, and Felix Wu, 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.
