Faculty and Staff

Founders

	Robert J. Full, Director Professor of Integrative Biology E-mail: rjfull@berkeley.edu Phone: 510-642-9896 Keywords: mechanics, controls, materials, evolution Research Areas: biology, comparative biomechanics, comparative physiology, functional morphology, locomotion, arthropod, amphibian, reptilian, energetics, neuro-mechanics Research Description Website: http://polypedal.berkeley.edu
	Mimi A.R. Koehl Professor of Integrative Biology Keywords: mechanics, materials, evolution Research Areas: invertebrate functional morphology, biomechanics, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, marine animals, filtration, insects, gliding vertebrates Research Description Website: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/koehl/
	Robert Dudley Professor of Integrative Biology Keywords: mechanics, controls, evolution Research Areas: biomechanics, fluid dynamics, energetics, flight, butterflies, energetics, gliding, hummingbirds, insects, metabolism, paleophysiology Research Description Website: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/dudley/

Department of Integrative Biology

	Roy Caldwell Professor of Integrative Biology Keywords: materials, evolution Research Areas: invertebrate behavior and ecology, marine biology, stomatopods, crustaceans, cephalopods, octopus, mating systems, communication, sensory ecology, aggressive behavior, coral reef restoration Research Description Website: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/caldwell/
	James McGuire Professor of Integrative Biology Keywords: mechanics, evolution Research Areas: mechanics, evolution, vertebrate systematics, evolutionary biology, phylogenetic analysis, functional morphology, life history evolution, historical biogeography, Bayesian methods, Southeast Asian flying lizards, hummingbirds, population genetics, Southeast Asia Research Description Website: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/mcguire/
	Kevin Padian Professor of Integrative Biology Keywords: evolution Research Areas: paleontology, evolutionary biology, Mesozoic vertebrate paleontology, terrestrial vertebrate fauna, systematics, functional morphology, pterosaurs, Mesozoic Era, bones of extinct reptiles Research Description Website: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/padian/home.php
	Marvalee H. Wake Professor of Integrative Biology Keywords: evolution Research Areas: morphology, development, and reproductive biology in vertebrates, evolutionary patterns and processes Research Description Website: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/mwake/
	Tim White Professor of Integrative Biology and Co-Director, Human Evolution Research Center Keywords: evolution Research Areas: paleoanthropology, human evolution, human osteology, taphonomy, zooarchaeology, Africa, Southwest, Ethiopia Research Description Website: http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/lab_detail.php?lab=50

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

George Oster Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Professor Environmental Science, Policy and Management Keywords: mechanics, materials Research Areas: mechanics, materials, mathematical modeling of molecular and cellular systems, computational biology, developmental biology, protein motors, cell motility, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, insect biology Research Description Website: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~goster/home.html

Department of Psychology

Rich Ivry Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Keywords: controls Research Areas: cognitive neuroscience, cognition and action, skill acquisition and coordination, research with healthy and neurologically impaired populations, brain imaging Research Description Website: http://ivrylab.berkeley.edu/

Lucia Jacobs Professor of Psychology Keywords: evolution Research Areas: ecology and evolution of navigating choices: how animals, from insects to humans, make choices about what to eat, how to navigate and how to integrate diverse sources of information (experiential, social and environmental) to make adaptive decisions in uncertain environments Research Description Website: http://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/lucia-f-jacobs

Department of Bioengineering

	Daniel Fletcher Professor of Bioengineering Keywords: mechanics, materials Research Areas: bioengineering, optical and force microscopy, microfabrication, mechanical properties of cells, stem cell Research Description Website: http://fletchlab.berkeley.edu/
	Kevin Healy Professor of Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering Keywords: materials Research Areas: bioengineering, biomaterials engineering, tissue engineering, design and synthesis of biomimetic materials, mammalian cells, regeneration of tissue, regeneration of organs, cellular functions, stem cells Research Description Website: http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/faculty/healy/KevinHealy.html
	Luke Lee Professor of Bioengineering; Director, Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center; Co-Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center Keywords: materials Research Areas: biophysics, bionanotechnology, biophotonics, and BioMEMS (biomedical micro electro mechanical systems) Research Description Website: http://biopoems.berkeley.edu/
	Dorian Liepmann Chair and Professor of Bioengineering Keywords: mechanics Research Areas: bioengineering, mechanical engineering, BioMEMS, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows Research Description Website: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~liepmann/
	Lisa Pruitt Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Keywords: mechanics, materials Research Areas: tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, cardiovascular biomaterials, synthetic cartilage, acrylic bone cements, tribology of diamond and DLCs Research Description Website: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/pruitt/

Department of Mechanical Engineering

	Homayoon Kazerooni Professor of Mechanical Engineering Keywords: mechanics, materials Research Areas: bioengineering, robotics, control systems, mechatronics, design, automated manufacturing, human-machine systems Research Description Website: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/kazerooni/index.html
	Tony Keaveny Chancellor's Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Keywords: mechanics, materials Research Areas: bioengineering, biomechanics of bone, orthopaedic biomechanics, tissue engineering of bone, mechanical behavior of bone and collagen, bone biology,osteoporosis, finite element modeling, biomechanical testing Research Description Website: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/keaveny/
	Dorian Liepmann Chair and Professor of Bioengineering Keywords: mechanics Research Areas: bioengineering, mechanical engineering, BioMEMS, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows Research Description Website: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~liepmann/
	Hannah Stuart Acting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Keywords: mechanics Research Areas: dexterous manipulation, bioinspired design, soft and multi-material mechanisms, skin contact conditions, tactile sensing and haptics. Research Description Website: http://embody.berkeley.edu/

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

	Pieter Abbeel Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Keywords: controls Research Areas: controls, robotics, machine learning and control Research Description Website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/abbeel.html
	Ruzena Bajcsy Professor of Computer Science Director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS) Keywords: controls, materials Research Areas: tele-immersive environments, computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, sensor networks, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, machine perception, image processing, medical image processing, information technology and humanities and social sciences Research Description Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bajcsy/
	Jose Carmena Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience Keywords: controls Research Areas: controls, sensorimotor learning and control, brain-machine interfaces, neuroprosthetics, neural ensemble computation Research Description Website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~carmena/
	Ron Fearing Professor of Electrical Engineering Keywords: mechanics, controls, materials Research Areas: robotics, biosystems Research Description Website: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/
	Ken Goldberg Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Professor of Computer Science Keywords: controls Research Areas: robotics, media art, automation, collaborative decision making, networked robots, internet robots, teleoperation, manufacturing, geometric algorithms, internet applications, collaborative filtering, human factors Research Description Website: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/index-flash.html
	Michael Jordan Professor of Statistics and Computer Sciences Keywords: controls Research Areas: statistics, electrical engineering, computer science, machine learning, applied statistics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, optimization Research Description Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/
	Michel Maharbiz Professor of of Electrical Engineering Keywords: controls Research Areas: microsystems, MEMS, bioMEMS, microfluidics Research Description Website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/maharbiz.html
	Jitendra Malik Professor of Computer Science Keywords: controls, materials Research Areas: grouping and ecological statistics, shape matching and object recognition, texture, recognizing humans and their activities, content based image retrieval, machine vision based traffic surveillance, image-based modeling and rendering, stereo drive: stereo vision to drive autonomous vehicles Research Description Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~malik/
	James O'Brien Professor of Computer Science Keywords: mechanics, materials Research Areas: physically based simulation of complex deformable systems to generate motion for use in computer generated animation Research Description Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~job/
	Kristofer Pister Professor of Electrical Engineering Keywords: mechanics, controls, materials Research Areas: electrical engineering, synthetic insects, smart dust, robotics Research Description Website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/pister.html
	Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science Keywords: controls Research Areas: artificial intelligence, machine learning, real-time decision-making, algorithms, probabilistic reasoning, computational biology Research Description Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/
	Shankar Sastry Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Keywords: controls Research Areas: millirobotics for minimally-invasive surgery, computer vision, Berkeley AeroRobots, software enabled control, air traffic management systems, center for hybrid and embedded software and systems, adaptation and learning in biological and artificial systems, nonholonomic systems, dynamics and control, interactive visualization, non-invasive surgery, and rapid prototyping Research Description Website: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sastry/

Department of Civil Engineering

Mark Stacey Professor of Environmental Engineering Keywords: mechanics Research Areas: environmental fluid mechanics, transport and mixing in stratified flows, dynamics of estuaries, lakes and the coastal ocean, interdisciplinary applications of environmental fluid mechanics Research Description Website: http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~stacey/

Evan Variano Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Keywords: mechanics Keywords: environmental fluid dynamics, experimental methods, mixing and transport by turbulence, air-sea exchange and the global carbon budget, hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms, nonlinear dynamics and coupled systems, sustainable development, water resources in the developing world, and inquiry education Research Description Website: http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/faculty/faculty.php?name=Variano

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Damien Elias Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management Keywords: evolution,  mechanics Research Areas: animal behavior, communication, bioacoustics, vibration, neuroethology, sensory systems, arthropods, signal evolution, sexual selection Research Description Website: http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/damian-o-elias/

Department of Architecture

Simon Schleicher Assistant Professor of Architecture Keywords:  Research Areas: Research Description Website: http://simonschleicher.wordpress.com/

Staff Technical Director

We are pleased to announce our new staff technical director Thomas Libby.