The EECS Department is proud to present the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize valuable contributions made by the distinguished alumni of Berkeley to the fields of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The Distinguished Alumni Awards were established in 1991 to honor our most esteemed and accomplished alumni across industry and academia. Since then, we have had the privilege of adding over 116 individuals to the ranks of our Distinguished Alumni in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Four outstanding alumni were named Berkeley EECS Distinguished Alumni Award recipients this year: Srinivas Devadas, DJ Seo, Dana Angluin, and John Schulman.

Electrical Engineering

Srinivas Devadas – Academia

Professor Srinivas Devadas earned both his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in EE from UC Berkeley, graduating in 1988, advised by Professor A. Richard Newton. He has gone on to become the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Professor Devadas is renowned globally for his pioneering work, particularly his invention of silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). This technology has transformed device authentication and secure key generation and has led to the founding of the company Verayo. His extraordinary achievements have been recognized with a wide array of honors. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and ACM and has received prestigious awards, such as the IEEE Computer Society’s Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, the W. Wallace McDowell Award, and the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award. In 2018, he received the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award for the development of Physical Unclonable Functions and enabling the deployment of secure circuits, processors and systems. In 2021, he received the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice and the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award for fundamental contributions to secure microprocessors, circuits, and systems. Professor Devadas is also a deeply dedicated educator, having received top teaching awards at MIT and authoring a well-received textbook.