UC Berkeley EECS

Today is UC Berkeley's Big Give! 🐻💙 Every gift, at any level, helps EECS unlock prize funds & resources for students and faculty. Support the next generation of EECS, ECE and CS students today: lnkd.in/gKTmX7Qi

AI doesn’t just learn data—it learns our biases. A @Berkeley_EECS researcher is working to ensure machine learning helps improve fairness in criminal justice and health care. news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/20/ai-…

Nov 21st Deadline Alert: Junior/Assistant Specialist - Computer Science Division Apply Here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05190

Emma Pierson, an assistant professor of @Berkeley_EECS, was recently named the Zhang Family Endowed Professor. Her work includes the development of machine learning methods to improve health care and public health. @UCBerkeley Learn more: bit.ly/47JWXDY

Congratulations to @dawnsongtweets, who has been selected as a 2025 #AI2050 Senior Fellow by @SchmidtSciences.

Amazing! 10 @BerkeleyEECS @SkyCompLab grad students are Amazon AI PhD Fellows! Congrats! Learn more about our fellows here: bit.ly/48Hl88q #AmazonAIFellowship @BerkeleySky

Our lab @Berkeley_EECS is recruiting PhD students! We develop ML methods for the health + social sciences in order to build a fairer, healthier world. Apply to @Berkeley_EECS or @UCJointCPH and mention my name in your application! More info: people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/j…

One month left to apply for our postdoc position @berkeley_ai! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05028.

UC Berkeley EECS is hiring! We're seeking exceptional faculty candidates at all ranks for our "Engineering + AI" search and up to 7 tenure-track Asst. Professors in EECS. EECS Focused Searches Include: Quantum Computing ⚛️ AI, Inequality, & Society ⚖️ bit.ly/40L2bwA

A pleasure to be invited by Lisa Blackwell, granddaughter of Prof. David Blackwell, to say a few words about her grandfather at an event this afternoon to promote an upcoming documentary about his life. To quote my colleague Mike Jordan, Blackwell's 'approachability' theory is "the basis of the entire online learning paradigm", and "it took many years for people in the online learning community to realize that David was basically the founder of their field". For example, (Abernethy, Bartlett, Hazan '2011) showed that Blackwell's 'Approachability Theorem' is in fact equivalent to regret minimization for Online Linear Optimization; basically, Blackwell was just 50 years ahead of his time.

#DidYouKnow Vigyan Singhal (M.S.‘94, Ph.D.‘95 EECS), vice president of hardware engineering at NVIDIA, just created a campus fund to empower students to excel in the semiconductor industry! Learn more: bit.ly/4nZ9slD

Are you applying to grad school this fall? The Equal Access to Application Assistance (EAAA) program for @Berkeley_EECS is now accepting applications! Any PhD applicant to @Berkeley_EECS can submit their application for feedback by Oct. 5th 11:59PM PST. EAAA is a student-led program designed to help more grad applicants get access to application assistance. A current or recent grad student in Berkeley EECS will provide feedback on application statements, resumes, and other application materials prior to the application deadline. Please see sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/e…  for more information and send any questions to eaaa@berkeley.edu!

Aside from attending the ICPC World Finals, last week in Baku, Azerbaijan I also had a chance to visit the grave of the chair of electrical engineering at Berkeley 1963-68, Lofti Zadeh, who was born and buried in Baku. In 1967 Lofti added CS to the department, turning it from “EE” to “EECS” and making him the first ever chair of @Berkeley_EECS! His tombstone: “world-famous scientist, founder of fuzzy logic theory, professor”

📣I've joined @BerkeleyEECS as an Assistant Professor! My lab will join me soon to continue our research in accessibility, HCI, and supporting communication! I'm so excited to make new connections at @UCBerkeley and in the Bay Area more broadly, so please reach out to chat!

Congratulations, Serina!

David Patterson is a pioneering contributor to RISC and RAID, Turing Award winner, former Berkeley CS chair and ACM President, now Distinguished Engineer at Google. David today in @thehill: "Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the @NSF that could lead to future breakthroughs... Cutting the level of government funding for scientific research now would rip those future returns out of American hands and deliver them to our global competitors... All told, American taxpayers invested just under $100 million in the labs I helped lead. Accounting for inflation, technologies that came out of them went on to generate over $1 trillion in product sales. That is a 10,000-to-1 return on investment to the public and surely at least 1,000-to-1 return directly back to the government in taxes. Not from luck, but from decades of public investment... As a scientist, I’m scared. As a taxpayer, I’m livid. We built a lead. Now Washington is ready to give it away... If Congress fails to preserve this funding, we hand our competitive edge and prosperity to someone else."

In this week's People of ACM we interview Brian Harvey, professor emeritus, @Berkeley_EECS, co-creator of the popular Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum. Harvey and Dan Garcia received this year's ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. Read the article here: acm.org/articles/peopl…

UC Berkeley EECS is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Integrated Circuits! We're seeking top talent in analog, RF, digital, silicon photonics & more, with applications in AI/ML, quantum, security, biomedical, and space. Apply now: bit.ly/40L2bwA

Thrilled to share that as of July 2025, I am joining @Berkeley_EECS as an Associate Professor! I am incredibly grateful to my amazing and talented students, postdocs, collaborators, mentors, family, and friends. I look forward to the next steps! #arpl #robotics #ai #autonomy

Today is my first as department chair at @Berkeley_EECS When I left Harvard 6 yrs ago, I just saw it as moving from one great place to another. Then, it hit me at a state school I'm also now a public servant, and that fact weighs on me every day. I aim to serve the best I can.