New Faculty
2008
Pieter Abbeel, CS professor, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interest is in robotics.
Murat Arcak, EE professor, received his B.S. '96 from Bogazici University in Istanbul and a M.S. '97 and Ph.D. '00 from UC Santa Barbara. His research interest is in control theory.
Ravi Ramamoorthi (start EECS January 2009), CS professor, received his B.S. '97 in Engineering and Applied Science from Graphics, a M.S. '98 in Computer Science and Physics from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. '02 from Stanford University. His research interest is in vision.
Jaijeet Roychowdhury, EE professor, received his B.Tech degree '87 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and a Ph.D. '03 from UC Berkeley. His research areas are CAD, circuits, biosystems and scientific computing.
Sayeef Salahuddin, EE professor, received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. His research interest is in physical electronics.
Bruno Olshausen, EE professor, received his B.S. '86, a M.S. '87 from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. '94 from the California Institute of Technology. His research interest is in computational neuroscience.
Horst Simon received his Diploma in Mathematik '78 from the Technische Universität Berlin and a Ph.D. '82 in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. His research interest is in scientific computing.
Trevor Darrell, CS professor, received his B.S.E '88 from the University of Pennsylvania, and a M.S. and PhD. from MIT in '91 and 96. His research interests are in computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal human-computer interfaces.
2006 - 2007
Elad Alon, EE professor, received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001, 2002, and 2006, respectively. In January 2007, he joined EECS. His research interests are analog, digital, and mixed-signal integrated circuits; adaptive systems; high-speed wireline; wireless, and optical communications; and design methodologies for modern integrated systems.
Krste Asanović, CS professor, received his B.A. degree from Cambridge University in 1987, and his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1998. He joined the EECS faculty Fall, 2007. His main research interests are computer architecture and VLSI design.
Minos Garofalakis, CS professor, received his BSc '92 from the University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept. (UOPCEID), and a MSc '94 and Ph.D. '98 in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His current research interests lie in the areas of probabilistic data management; approximate query processing; data streaming; network management; data mining; and XML and text databases.
Ivan Kaminow, EE professor, received degrees from Union College (BSEE), UCLA (MSE) and Harvard (AM, Ph.D.). He was a Hughes Fellow at UCLA and a Bell Labs Fellow at Harvard. His research areas are Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and the Center for Optoelectronic Nanostructured SemiconductoR Technologies (CONSRT).
Elchanan Mossel, CS professor. He received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University. His research interests are applied probability; discrete fourier analysis; markov chains; markov random fields; social choice; game theory and evolution.
Clark Nguyen, EE professor. He received the B. S., M. S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, 1991, and 1994, respectively, all in EECS. In 1995, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2006, he joined the EECS faculty. His research interests focus upon micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) and include integrated micromechanical signal processors and sensors, merged MEMS/transistor technologies, RF communication architectures, and integrated circuit design and technology.
Lior Pachter, CS professor. He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech in 1994, and his Ph.D. '99 from MIT in applied mathematics. His research interests span the mathematical and biological sciences in the areas of algorithms; combinatorics; comparative genomics; algebraic statistics; molecular biology; and evolution.
Vern Paxson, CS professor. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley. His research areas are Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT) and Security (SEC).
Koushik Sen, CS professor. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are Programming Systems (PS); Software Engineering; Programming Languages and Formal Methods: Software Testing, Verification, Model Checking, Runtime Monitoring, Performance Evaluation, and Computational Logic; and Security (SEC).
Dawn Song, CS professor. Her research interests are computer security; privacy; and applied cryptography, including security and privacy issues in systems, software, networking, and databases; analysis of and defense against malicious code.
Yun S. Song, CS professor. He received the BS degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT, and a Ph.D. '01 degree in physics from Stanford University. His research interests are Biosystems (BIO); Theory (THY); computational biology and bioinformatics; and applied probability.
Eli Yablonovitch, EE professor. He received his Ph.D. '92 in Applied Physics from Harvard University. His research interests are optoelectronics; high speed optical communications; high efficiency light-emitting diodes and nano-cavity lasers; photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies; quantum computing; and quantum communication.
Bin Yu, EE professor. She received her B.S.in Mathematics, Peking University, 1984 , a M.S. '87 and Ph.D. '90 in Statistics, UC Berkeley. Her research interests are statistical methodologies and models involving large data sets from remote sensing, data networks (internet and sensor networks); neuroscience; finance; and bioinformatics.