A simple idea to build the UC Berkeley startup alumni network has grown beyond my wildest dreams into #AccelScholars, a tight-knit community of the most ambitious, talented, kind-hearted people, whose individual stories we’ve been fortunate to support for the past eight years

We’re just getting started. Our community is growing and applications are open for our next class. Please spread the word. Go bears! eecs.berkeley.edu/resources/unde…

⭐ Today is Big Give ⭐ — Help us maintain and build infrastructure for the next generation. We invite you to make a gift of any size to the EECS Excellence Fund!🎉 bit.ly/4abxUt1 #BerkeleyEECS #BerkeleyCS #FundFutureEngineers #CalBigGive

Two members of the UC Berkeley computer science community—Ion Stoica (Ion Stoica) and John Schulman (John Schulman)—are recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards! 🎉 Presented by UC Berkeley Foundation and Cal Alumni Association. UC Berkeley EECS cdss.berkeley.edu/news/ion-stoic…

In the 1995 film Hackers, Angelina Jolie’s character uttered these “prophetic” words: “RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” David Patterson, CS professor emeritus and inventor of RISC, explains how those words may hold true today. bit.ly/4cxvaIN

Can a smartphone detect signs of a stroke? Ashmita Kumar, a UC Berkeley EECS student, created Code Blue—a startup that uses AI and everyday devices to detect early stroke symptoms and call for help, potentially saving lives. hubs.li/Q03hysxv0 #ucberkeley #healthtech #scet

Today is my first as department chair at UC 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.

Thrilled to share that as of July 2025, I am joining UC 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

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

In this week's People of ACM we interview Brian Harvey, professor emeritus, UC 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:

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 The Hill: "Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers

Congratulations, Serina!

📣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 UC Berkeley and in the Bay Area more broadly, so please reach out to chat!

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

Are you applying to grad school this fall? The Equal Access to Application Assistance (EAAA) program for UC Berkeley EECS is now accepting applications! Any PhD applicant to UC Berkeley EECS can submit their application for feedback by Oct. 5th 11:59PM PST. EAAA is a

#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

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

One month left to apply for our postdoc position Berkeley AI Research! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05028.

Our lab UC 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 UC Berkeley EECS or UC Joint Computational Precision Health Program and mention my name in your application! More info: people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/j…