BAIR Admissions

Announcement (9/23/20): The AI Admissions Committee will not consider GRE Scores in making decisions. BAIR believes in diversity leading to better research and decision making and welcomes applicants of all backgrounds to apply.

Graduate Admissions

Graduate Admissions happens through the various departments the BAIR faculty are affiliated with. Most BAIR faculty are affiliated with the EECS department, which houses the CS Division and the EE Division. Please make sure to choose the division and area that are right for you.

AI Areas in the CS Division:

• CS: AI-CV: Computer Vision -- Canny, Darrell, Efros, Farid, Gallant, Kanazawa, Malik, Ng, Olshausen, Zakhor
• CS: AI-DRL: Deep and Reinforcement Learning -- Abbeel, Levine, Mordatch
• CS: AI-EDU: Eduction -- Norouzi
• CS: AI-H: Human Interaction, Safety, Fairness -- Alaa, Canny, Chayes, Chen, Coston, Dragan, Hightalab, Pierson, Russell, Steinhardt
• CS: AI-HCI: Human Computer Interaction -- Hartmann, Salehi
• CS: AI-LANG: Natural Language and Speech -- Anumanchipalli, Bamman, DeNero, Hearst, Klein, Min, Suhr, Mordatch
• CS: AI-ROB: Robotics -- Abbeel, Dragan, Goldberg, Levine, Tomlin
• CS: AI-SCI: AI for Science -- Chang, Chayes, Gallant, Pierson, Ioannidis, Krishnapriyan, Listgarten, Ng, Yala, Y. Song
• CS: AI-SEC: Security, Synthesis, Verification -- Cheung, Popa, D. Song, Wagner
• CS: AI-SYS: Software Systems, Engineering -- Gonzalez, Keutzer, Stoica, Zaharia
• CS: AI-THY: ML Theory -- Bartlett, Borgs, DeWeese, Dimakis, Hightalab, Jiao, Jordan, Mei, Recht, Steinhardt, Yu

AI-related Areas in the EE Division:

• EECS: CIR: Control, Intelligent Systems and Robotics -- Arcak, Aswani, Bayen, Borrelli, Goldberg, Ma, Recht, Sastry, Sojoudi, Tomlin, Zakhor
• EECS: CVAI: Computer Vision and AI -- we recommend you instead apply to a more focused AI area under CS
• EECS: IDNCS: Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences -- Dutta, Jiao, Ma, Ramchandran, Ranade, Sahai
• EECS: SP: Signal Processing -- Lustig, Waller, Zakhor
• EE: CPSDA -- Seshia
• EE: Integrated Circuits -- Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

For applying to CS or EECS, start at the EECS graduate admissions page.

Other departments BAIR faculty are affiliated with include Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Neuroscience, Psychology, School of Information, and Statistics.

Post-Doc Opportunities

BAIR has many post-docs. Post-docs are recruited by individual faculty each following their own process. All faculty have webpages which could be a good starting point regarding their interests and how they might be reached.

Undergraduate Opportunities

BAIR has many undergraduate researchers. Undergraduate researchers are recruited by individual faculty each following their own process. All faculty have webpages which could be a good starting point regarding their interests and how they might be reached.