Kristofer Pister

Professor

Research Areas

• Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR), Micro-robotics
• Energy (ENE)
• Integrated Circuits (INC), Low-power circuits
• Micromechanical systems

Research Centers

• Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC)
• Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)
• Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)
• Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS)
• Microfabrication Lab (Microlab)
• Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory
• Wireless Embedded Systems (WEBS)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2009)

• EE 290Q-2. Wireless Sensor Networks, TuTh 3:30-5:00P, 51 Evans

Biography

He received a B.A. in Applied Physics from UC San Diego, 1986, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 1989 and 1992, respectively. Prior to joining the faculty of EECS in 1996, he taught in the Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA.

Selected Publications

• B. W. Cook, A. D. Berny, A. Molnar, S. Lanzisera, and K. Pister, "An ultra-low-power 2.4GHz RF transceiver for wireless sensor networks in 130nm CMOS with 400mV supply and an integrated passive RX front-end," in 2006 IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC '06). Digest of Technical Papers, L. C. Fujino, Ed., Vol. 49, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 370-371.
• B. S. Leibowitz, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "A 256-element CMOS imaging receiver for free-space optical communication," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 1948-1956, Sep. 2005.
• M. D. Scott, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "An ultralow-energy ADC for Smart Dust," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1123-1129, July 2003.
• M. Last, B. S. Leibowitz, B. Cagdaser, A. Jog, L. Zhou, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "Toward a wireless optical communication link between two small unmanned aerial vehicles," in Proc. 2003 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003), Vol. 3, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2003, pp. 930-933.
• S. Hollar, A. Flynn, S. Bellew, and K. Pister, "Solar powered 10 mg silicon robot," in Proc. IEEE 16th Annual Intl. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2003, pp. 706-711.
• B. A. Warneke, M. D. Scott, B. S. Leibowitz, L. Zhou, C. L. Bellew, J. A. Chediak, J. M. Kahn, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "An autonomous 16 mm3 solar-powered node for distributed wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 2002 1st Intl. Conf. on Sensors, Vol. 2, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 1510-1515.
• J. V. Clark, D. Bindel, W. Kao, E. Zhu, A. Kuo, N. Zhou, J. Nie, J. Demmel, Z. Bai, S. Govindjee, K. Pister, M. Gu, and A. Agogino, "Addressing the needs of complex MEMS design," in Proc. 15th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 204-209.
• B. S. Leibowitz, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "CMOS "smart pixel" for free-space optical communication," in Proc. SPIE: Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications II, M. M. Blouke, J. Canosa, and N. Sampat, Eds., Vol. 4306, Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 2001, pp. 308-318.
• L. Doherty, B. A. Warneke, B. Boser, and K. Pister, "Energy and performance considerations for smart dust," Intl. J. Parallel and Distributed Systems & Networks, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 121-133, March 2001.
• B. Warneke, M. Last, B. Liebowitz, and K. Pister, "Smart Dust: Communicating with a cubic-millimeter computer," Computer, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 44-51, Jan. 2001.
• P. B. Chu, J. T. Chen, R. Yeh, G. Lin, J. C. P. Huang, B. A. Warneke, and K. Pister, "Controlled pulse-etching with xenon difluoride," in TRANSDUCERS '97 Digest of Technical Papers, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 1997, pp. 665-668.
• K. Pister, M. W. Judy, S. R. Burgett, and R. S. Fearing, "Microfabricated hinges," Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), vol. A33, no. 3, pp. 249-256, June 1992.