Siebel Scholars Foundation<\/a>\u2019s class of 2027. The graduate students \u2014 all from computer science \u2014 join more than 2,000 distinguished honorees advancing research in the fields of bioengineering, computer science and business.<\/p>\nThe scholars program awards grants of $35,000 to select students at universities in the United States, China, France, Italy and Japan. Honorees are chosen based on outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership, and, on average, rank within the top 5% of their class, many within the top 1%.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis distinguished honor from the Siebel Scholars Foundation recognizes some of the brightest minds at this college,\u201d said Mark Asta, dean and Roy W. Carlson Chair of Engineering at Berkeley. \u201cWe\u2019re so proud and look forward to seeing them use this scholarship to pursue new research directions to advance knowledge and innovation in their fields.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meet the 2027 class of Siebel Scholars at Berkeley:<\/p>\n
Alexander Proshkin is studying robot learning, reinforcement learning and how intelligent systems can develop a meaningful understanding of the physical world.
\nNicolas Rakela is working on hardware for machine learning systems and low-precision numerics for efficient inference.
\nSaathvik Selvan is exploring how machines can understand and interact with the physical world, focusing on 3D visual perception and dexterous robot manipulation.
\nHiya Shah is studying robotics safety, reinforcement learning and human-centered robotics.
\nKaren Shieh is exploring how large language models can make software security tools more accessible and effective.<\/p>\n
The Siebel Scholars Foundation made the announcement<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 18, 2026 by Berkeley Engineering Five UC Berkeley students were honored as Siebel Scholars Foundation\u2019s class of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-468323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}