Chair

Tarek Zohdi

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Finite element methods, Micro-structural/macro-property inverse problems

Email: zohdi@me.berkeley.edu 

Members

Josh Bloom

Affiliations: Astronomy

Interests: Black hole transients, Gamma-ray bursts, Optical/infrared instrumentation, Supernovae, Virtual observatory

Email: jbloom@astro.berkeley.edu

 

James Demmel

Affiliations: Chair, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics

Interests: Computer architecture, Computer engineering, Linear algebra, Numerical analysis, Scientific computing

Email: demmel@cs.berkeley.edu

Tarek Zohdi

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Finite element methods, Micro-structural/macro-property inverse problems

Email: zohdi@me.berkeley.edu

Core Faculty

Josh Bloom

Affiliations: Astronomy

Interests: Black hole transients, Gamma-ray bursts, Optical/infrared instrumentation, Supernovae, Virtual observatory

Email: jbloom@astro.berkeley.edu

Tina Chow

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: Atmospheric layer flow, Environmental fluid mechanics

Email: tinakc@berkeley.edu

Daryl Chrzan

Affiliations: Materials Science and Engineering

Interests: Equilibrium structures of defects, Nanocrystal thermodynamics, Theories of deformation, Thin film growth

Email: dcchrzan@berkeley.edu

James Demmel

Affiliations: EECS (Computer Science), Mathematics

Interests: Computer architecture, Computer engineering, Linear algebra, Numerical analysis, Scientific computing

Email: demmel@cs.berkeley.edu

Sandrine Dudoit

Affiliations: Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Statistics

Interests: High-throughput gene expression analysis using DNA microarrays and second-generation sequencing, Statistical and computational methods in genomics

Email: sandrine@stat.berkeley.edu

Michael Frenklach

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests:Chemical kinetics; Computer modeling; Combustion chemistry; Pollutant formation (NOx, soot); Shock tube; Chemical vapor deposition of diamond films; Homogeneous nucleation of silicon, silicon carbide, and diamond powders; Interstellar dust formation.

Email: myf@me.berkeley.edu

Sanjay Govindjee

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: Computational solid mechanics, Constitutive theory, Micromechanics

Email: s_g@berkeley.edu

Ming Gu

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Numerical linear algebra, Scientific computing

Email: mgu@math.berkeley.edu

Martin Head-Gordon

Affiliations: Chemistry

Interests: Theoretical chemistry

Email: mhg@bastille.cchem.berkeley.edu

Teresa Head-Gordon

Affiliations: Bioengineering

Interests: Biomaterial experiments, Biomolecule experiments, Computation theory

Email: tlhead-gordon@lbl.gov

Shaofan Li

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: Computational mechanics, Mechanics of Soft Matters, Multiscale Simulations

Email: shaofan@berkeley.edu

Mohammed R.K. Mofrad, PhD

Affiliations: Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular Cell Biomechanics

Interests: Theoretical matter physics, Varied quantum phases

Email: mofrad@berkeley.edu

Panos Papadopoulos

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Applied mathematics, Biomechanics, Computational mechanics, Solid mechanics

Email: panos@me.berkeley.edu

James Sethian

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Applied mathematics, Computational physics, Partial differential equations

Email: sethian@math.berkeley.edu

Philip Stark

Affiliations: Statistics

Interests: Complex physical systems, Uncertainty simulations

Email: stark@stat.berkeley.edu

John Strain

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Applied mathematics, Fast algorithms, Material science, Numerical analysis

Email: strain@math.berkeley.edu

Jon Wilkening

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Applied mathematics, Materials science, Scientific computing

Email: wilken@math.berkeley.edu

Katherine Yelick

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Biosystems, Computational biology, Parallel programming techniques, Programming systems, Scientific computing

Email: yelick@cs.berkeley.edu

Bin Yu

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics

Interests: Computational models, Statistical machine learning, Statistical methodologies

Email: binyu@stat.berkeley.edu

Tarek Zohdi

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Finite element methods, Micro-structural/macro-property inverse problems

Email: zohdi@me.berkeley.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Ilan Adler

Affiliations: Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Interests: Convex programming models, Interior point algorithms, mathematical programming

Email: adler@ieor.berkeley.edu

Alice Agogino

Affiliations: Haas School of Business, Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Intelligent learning systems; information retrieval and data mining; intelligent control and manufacturing; wireless sensor networks; multimedia and computer-aided design; MEMS Synthesis and CAD; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems.

Email: agogino@berkeley.edu

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: Bioremediation communities, Biotransformation of contaminants, Microbial ecology

Email: lisaac@berkeley.edu

Adam Arkin

Affiliations: Bioengineering, Chemistry

Interests: Cellular networks, Evolutionary design principles

Email: aparkin@lbl.gov

Franciso Armero

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: Computational mechanics, Nonlinear continuum mechanics

Email: armero@ce.berkeley.edu

Alper Atamturk

Affiliations: Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Interests: Integer programming, Network design, Optimization under uncertainty

Email: atamturk@berkeley.edu

Peter Bartlett

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics

Interests: Adaptive control, Machine learning, Pattern classification, Reinforcement learning, Statistical learning theory

Email: bartlett@cs.berkeley.edu

Alexandre M. Bayen

 

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Systems Engineering Program

Interests: Control, estimation and optimization of distributed parameter systems, inverse modeling and data assimilation, Mobile internet applications (location based services), participatory sensing

Mobile Millennium website: http://traffic.berkeley.edu

Alexis Bell

Affiliations: Chemical Engineering

Interests: Hetergenous catalysts, Structure, Understanding relationship

Email: bell@cchem.berkeley.edu

Francesco Borrelli

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Automotive control system, Model predictive control, Robust constrained control

Email: borrelli@me.berkeley.edu

Henry Brady

Affiliations: Political Science

Interests: Electoral politics, Management information systems, Political participation, Program evaluation, Social welfare policy

Email: hbrady@berkeley.edu

James Bentley (Ben) Brown

Affiliations: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Berkeley Lab, Statistics

Email: JBBrown@lbl.gov

William Collins

Affiliations: Earth and Planetary Science, LBNL

Interests: Carbon management, Climate change, Energy resources, Environmental remediation, Geological carbon sequestration

Email: wdcollins@lbl.gov

Yang Dan

Affiliations: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Encoded information, Mammalian brain processes, Neural circuits

Email: ydan@berkeley.edu

Michael DeWeese

Affiliations: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Computational neuroscience, Systems

Email: deweese@berkeley.edu

Doug Dreger

Affiliations: Earth and Planetary Science

Interests: Geophysical inverse problems, Investigate seismic source

Email: dreger@seismo.berkeley.edu

David Eisenbud

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Algebraic geometry, Commutative algebra, Computation

Email: de@math.berkeley.edu

Laurent El-Ghaoui

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Interests: Air traffic management, Bioinformatics, Convex optimization, Finance, Robotics, Statistical estimation

Email: elghaoui@eecs.berkeley.edu

Craig Evans

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Partial differential equations

Email: evans@math.berkeley.edu

Steve Evans

Affiliations: Mathematics, Statistics

Interests: Dawson-Watanabe super processes, Fractal-like algebraic structures

Email: evans@stat.berkeley.edu

Richard Fateman

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Algebraic computer manipulation, Programming, Scientific programming environments

Email: fateman@cs.berkeley.edu

Lee Fleming

Affiliations: Haas School of Business, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Interests: Innovation, knowledge diffusion, regional economics, social networks, The integration of scientific and empirical search strategies

Email: lfleming@ieor.berkeley.edu

Inez Fung

Affiliations: Earth and Planetary Science

Interests: Atmosphere composition, Biogeochemical cycles, Climate changes

Email: ifung@berkeley.edu

Jack Gallant

Affiliations: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Behavioral neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience, Computational neuroscience, System neuroscience

Email: gallant@berkeley.edu

Tom Griffiths

Affiliations: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Behavioral neuroscience, Brain and behavior, Clinical science, Social-personality

Email: tom_griffiths@berkeley.edu

David Harding

Affiliations: Sociology, D-Lab, Berkeley Institute for Data Science

Interests: Computational Social Science, Causal Inference, Poverty, Inequality, Criminal Justice, Education

Email: dharding@berkeley.edu

Marti Hearst

Affiliations: School of Information

Interests: Computational linguistics, Information retrieval, User interfaces

Email: hearst@ischool.berkeley.edu

Paul Hilfinger

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Programming Systems (PS); Scientific Computing (SCI); Software Engineering; Parallel Programming Techniques

Email: hilfinger@cs.berkeley.edu

Dorit Hochbaum

Affiliations: Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Interests: Data mining recognition, Image segmentation, Manufacturing VLSI circuit

Email: hochbaum@ieor.berkeley.edu

Olga Holtz

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Approximation theory, Matrix theory, Numerical analysis, Orthogonal polynomials, Scientific computing

Email: holtz@math.berkeley.edu

Nicholas Jewell

Affiliations: Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Statistics

Interests: Biostatistical techniques, Genomics, Statistical methods, Stochastic process, Survival analysis

Email: jewell@berkeley.edu

Michael Jordan

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics

Interests: Cognitive modeling, Distributed statistical inference, Nonparametric Bayesian statistics, Speech production, Statistical genetics

Email: jordan@cs.berkeley.edu

Tony Keaveny

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Biomechanics, Design bone-implant system, Experimentation, Finite element modeling, Tissue engineering

Email: tmk@me.berkeley.edu

Stanley A. Klein

Affiliations: Vision Science and Optometry

Interests: amblyopia, corneal topography and contact lens design, fMRI, psychophysical methods and vision test design, source localization of evoked potentials, Spatial vision modeling

Email: sklein@socrates.berkeley.edu

Robert Knight

Affiliations: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Behavioral neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience

Email: rtknight@berkeley.edu

Aditi Krishnapriyan

Affiliations: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)

Interests: Development of new physics-inspired machine learning methods, geometric deep learning, differentiable physics, dynamical systems, numerical methods, computational geometry, optimization

Email: aditik1@berkeley.edu

Laurel Larsen

Affiliations: Earth Systems Science in Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Data-driven, modeling, and experimental approaches to understand how the flow of water through the environment interacts with vegetation, sediment, and organisms from the scale of individual vegetation stems to the landscape scale

Email: laurel@berkeley.edu

David Limmer

Affiliations: Chemistry

Interests: Theoretical chemistry

Email: dlimmer@berkeley.edu

Lin Lin

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: applied mathematics, Quantum Chemistry, quantum computation, Scientific machine learning

Email: linlin@berkeley.edu

Roya Maboudian

Affiliations: Chemical Engineering

Interests: Engineering, Micro-electromechanical systems, Semicondutors, Thin-film science

Email: maboudia@berkeley.edu

Philip Marcus

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Algorithms, Atmospheric flows, Convection, Fluid mechanics, Nonlinear dynamics, Numerical analysis, Ocean flows, Turbulence

Email: pmarcus@me.berkeley.edu

Sara McMains

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: CAD/CAM/CAPP, Computation on GPU (GPGPU), Geometric modeling, Layered manufacturing

Email: mcmains@me.berkeley.edu

Ali Mesbah

Affiliations: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Interests: Learning-based predictive control; uncertainty quantification; plasma processing; manufacturing systems

Email: mesbah@berkeley.edu

Burkhard Militzer

Affiliations: Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science

Interests: Simulation of liquids, Simulation of novel materials

Email: militzer@berkeley.edu

Joel Moore

Affiliations: Physics

Interests: Theoretical matter physics, Varied quantum phases

Email: jemoore@socrates.berkeley.edu

Benjamin Nachman

Affiliations: Physics Division, Berkeley Lab; Berkeley Institute for Data Science

Interests: Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics

Email: bpnachman@lbl.gov

Clark Nguyen

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Microeletromechanical systems technology, Wireless circuits

Email: ctnguyen@eecs.berkeley.edu

James O’Brien

Affiliations: Computer Science Interests: Computer Graphics and Animation

Email: job@eecs.berkeley.edu

Oliver M. O’Reilly

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: biomechanics of the spine, continuum mechanics, dynamical systems, Models for plant growth, rigid body dynamics, rotations

Email: oreilly@berkeley.edu

Bruno Olshausen

Affiliations: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Constructiong neural circuits, Probabilistic models

Email: baolshausen@berkeley.edu

Shmuel Oren

Affiliations: Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Interests: Coordination theory, Electric power economics, Market mechanisms, Operations, Planning, Pricing strategies

Email: oren@ieor.berkeley.edu

Fernando Perez

Affiliations: Statistics

Interests: data science, Educational Data Science, scientific computing

Email: fernando.perez@berkeley.edu

Per-Olof Persson

 

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: high-order methods for fluid and solid mechanics

Email: Persson@berkeley.edu

Thomas (Zach) Powell

Affiliations: Integrative Biology

Interests: Biological processes, Estuaries, Physical processes

Email: zackp@berkeley.edu

Eliot Quataert

Affiliations: Astronomy

Interests: Black holes, Galaxy formation, Gamma-ray bursts, Supernovae explosions

Email: eliot@astron.berkeley.edu

Eran Rabani

Affiliations: Chemistry

Interests: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Email: eran.rabani@berkeley.edu

Barbara Romanowicz

Affiliations: Earth and Planetary Science

Interests: Earthquake processes, Estimation of earthquake parameters, Scaling laws

Email: barbara@seismo.berkeley.edu

David Romps

Affiliations: EPS, LBL

Email: romps@berkeley.edu

Austin Roorda

Affiliations: School of Optometry, Vision Science

Interests: adaptive optics, High-resolution retinal imaging, limits of human vision, physiological optics

Email: aroorda@berkeley.edu

Jaijeet Roychowdhury

Affiliations: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Interests: and Robotics (CIR), Biosystems and Computational Biology (BIO), Control, Intelligent systems

Email: jr@eecs.berkeley.edu

Stuart Russell

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Dynamic Bayesian networks, Hierarchical reinforcement learning, Properties of intelligent agents

Email: russell@cs.berkeley.edu

Shankar Sastry

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Adaptive control, Biological motor control, Hybrid systems, Robotic telesurgery, Sensor networks

Email: sastry@coe.berkeley.edu

David Schaffer

Affiliations: Chemical Engineering

Interests: Biomedical engineering

Email: schaffer@berkeley.edu

Jasjeet Sekhon

Affiliations: Political Science and Statistics

Interests: Causal Inference, Statistical methods

Email: sekhon@berkeley.edu

Karthik Shekhar

Affiliations: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Cellular and systems biology, statistical inference, single-cell genomics

Email: kshekhar@berkeley.edu

Matthew P. Sherburne

Interests: Applying computational techniques to the discovery, design and development of materials for a sustainable world: solar energy, catalytic reaction and CO2 reduction, and water for example.

Email: mpsherb@berkeley.edu

Alistair Sinclair

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics

Interests: Computational analysis, Monte Carlo methods, Nonlinear dynamical systems, Stochastic processes

Email: sinclair@cs.berkeley.edu

Kenichi Soga

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: Infrastructure sensing, City-scale modeling and simulations of infrastructure systems, Performance-based design and maintenance of underground structures, Energy geotechnics, and Geotechnics from micro to macro.

Email: soga@berkeley.edu

Mark Stacey

Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, Estuarine, Ocean circulation, Physical-biological modeling

Email: mstacey@berkeley.edu

Philip Stark

Affiliations: Statistics

Interests: Complex physical systems, Uncertainty simulations

Email: stark@stat.berkeley.edu

David Steigmann

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: capillary phenomena, Continuum, finite elasticity, mechanics, mechanics of thin films, shell theory, stability, surface stress, variational methods

Email: steigman@me.berkeley.edu

Bernd Sturmfels

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Algebraic statistics, Combinatorics, Commutative algebra, Computational algebraic geometry, Computational biology

Email: bernd@math.berkeley.edu

Frederic Theunissen

Affiliations: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Interests: Auditory Physiology, Neural basis

Email: theunissen@berkeley.edu

Hayden Taylor

Affiliations: Mechanical Engineering

Interests: Modeling and simulation of micro-and nano-manufacturing processes and materials

Email: hkt@berkeley.edu

Birgitta Whaley

Affiliations: Chemistry

Interests: Computation, Nanoscience, Physical chemistry, Quantum information

Email: whaley@berkeley.edu

Ting Xu

Affiliations: Chemistry

Interests: Biomaterials, Polymers

Email: tingxu@berkeley.edu

Avideh Zakhor

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: 3D modeling, Image processing, Wireless multimedia communication

Email: avz@eecs.berkeley.edu

Maciej Zworski

Affiliations: Mathematics

Interests: Mathematical physics, Partial differential equations

Email: zworski@math.berkeley.edu

Former Faculty Affiliates

Maneesh Agrawala

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Graphics, Human-computer interaction

Ruzena Bajcsy+

Affiliations: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Interests: Artificial intelligence, Biosystems, Computational biology, Human-computer interaction, Intelligent systems, Robotics

Email: bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu

*Deceased+ Retired