Jelani Nelson, UC Berkeley’s EECS chair, just joined Anthropic.

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-07-01

Jelani Nelson, chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UC Berkeley, has joined Anthropic on leave from the university.

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Jelani Nelson, UC Berkeley EECS department chair, has joined Anthropic and taken a leave of absence from the university.
Nelson described Anthropic as filled with 'mission-driven people' working on 'the defining technology of our time.'

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I've joined @AnthropicAI and taken leave from the university. Excited to work with many talented, mission-driven people on the defining technology of our time.