S. Shankar Sastry

From machine-learning algorithms detecting emergent diseases to a data-driven approach to addressing housing inequity, six UC Berkeley-led projects have been awarded funding from the recently created C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute to use artificial intelligence to help fight the spread of COVID-19.

Female engineering students have faced difficulty entering the male-dominated college, where many female students have reported experiencing either subtle or direct gender bias.

Lotfi Zadeh, former UC Berkeley professor and architect of “fuzzy logic,” a precursor to artificial intelligence, passed away last week at the age of 96.

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering and Haas School of Business are offering a new two-degree program — the Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology, or MET, program — that will begin in fall 2017.

A team of campus professors and researchers received a grant from Microsoft for its work with human-robot interaction, the company announced Wednesday.

Twelve UC Berkeley faculty members won grants from the Siebel Energy Institute on Tuesday for projects that aim to improve the availability and efficiency of modern energy systems.

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering and a Chinese university are leading efforts in a partnership that will allow students and faculty from both institutions to collaborate on research in several emerging fields.

Administrators, students and donors celebrated the groundbreaking of a new engineering building on Saturday while a small group of protesters continued to express opposition to its imminent construction.

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering is planning to create a new minor in engineering design aimed at giving students more opportunities for hands-on education and experience.

Albert Pisano, a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering for 30 years at the Berkeley campus, will become dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering September 1.