Research Centers and Labs

• Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)

  New media can transform how we perceive, learn, communicate, and experience the world. What is "new" is accelerating rapidly with emerging technologies, yet remains deeply rooted in powerful aesthetic, cultural, and political forces. Our mission is to understand what is new about each new media from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives that emphasize humanities and the public interest.

• Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)

  Program is the world-leading center for basic and applied research in soft computing (fuzzy logic, neural network, evolutionary computing): fuzzy reasoning, set and logic; Recognition Technology; uncertainty analysis; decision support systems; risk analysis and management; computing with words; computational theory of perception (CTP), precisiated natural language (PNL)

• Berkeley Institue for Performance Studies (BIPS)

  The Berkeley Institute for Performance Studies (BIPS) is a joint Institute with LBNL and UC Berkeley with research activities in performance analysis, modeling, and tuning.

• Berkeley Institute of Design (BID)

  A new design discipline that spans computer science, architecture, industrial and mechanical engineering.

• Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center (BQIC)

  Quantum information processing investigates fascinating issues at the foundations of computer science and quantum mechanics. Quantum computers provide exponential speedups for computational tasks such as integer factorization, and properties of quantum bits can be used to achieve secure communication.

• Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC)

  Devoted to research on sensors and miniature moving mechanical elements or MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) that take advantage of integrated-circuit technology.

• Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)

  This center's research focuses on highly-integrated CMOS implementations with the lowest possible energy consumption and advanced communication algorithms. Components are fabricated using state-of-the-art processes and evaluated in a realistic test environment

• Biomimetic Millisystems Lab

  The objective of the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab is to harness features of animal locomotion to enable high performance mobile millirobots.

• Center for Cell Control (CCC)

  The Center for Cell Control is an NIH Nanomedicine Development center focusing on the use of systems control, with therapeutic intent, to determine the parameters for guiding the cell to a directed phenotype/genotype which will then be followed by in depth study, using nanoscale modalities, of the path by which this desired state is achieved.

• Center for Functional Imaging

  The purpose of this research is to apply new technologies to the study of atherosclerosis, heart disease, aging, neurological and psychiatric diseases, and cancer.

• Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS)

  The research focus is on developing model-based and tool-supported design methodologies for real-time fault tolerant software on heterogeneous distributed platforms.

• Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)

  The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society was established to sponsor collaborative information technology research that will ultimately provide solutions to grand-challenge social and commercial problems affecting the quality of life of all Californians. The set of applications include energy efficiency, transportation, environmental monitoring, seismic safety, education, cultural research and health care.

• Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)

  The center brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, control theory, operations research, neuroscience, adaptive systems, information retrieval, data mining, computational statistics, and game theory.

• Center for Interdisciplinary Biological Inspiration in Education and Research (CIBER)

  Research in integrative biomechanics and biological inspiration funded by NSF.

• Center for Optoelectronic Nanostructured SemiconductoR Technologies (CONSRT)

  To advance nanostructured optoelectronic materials and devices to enable breakthrough functionalities in sensing, imaging, processing and communication microsystems with greatly reduced power, size, and weight.

• Center for X-Ray Optics (CXRO)

  The Center for X-Ray Optics works to advance the science and technology of short-wave optical systems with applications using extreme ultraviolet light (EUV), soft x-ray radiation and nanostructure fabrication.

• Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS)

  An interdisciplinary center for research and education/outreach in nanomechanical systems established by the National Science Foundation. Multifaceted research focuses on molecular and nanoscale mechanics at the interface of hard and soft matter.

• Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED)

  The Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED, "SeaSide") is a joint effort between researchers at UCSD and the International Computer Science Institute. CCIED addresses the critical challenges posed by large-scale Internet-based pathogens, such as worms and viruses. CCIED efforts focus on analyzing the behavior and limitations of Internet pathogns, developing early-warning and forensic capabilities, and automated, real-time defenses.

• Collaborative Telerobotics

  The ALPHA Lab at UC Berkeley -- Projects

• Connectivity Lab

  A research lab bridging theoretical concepts and design issues in communications.

• Donald O. Pederson Center for Electronics Systems Design (DOP)

  The DOP Center for Electronic Systems Design is a collaborative workspace for research conducted by the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS), the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS), the Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC), and the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST).

• Feature-Level Compensation and Control (FLCC)

  The objective is to introduce innovative process steps, new sensors, and effective control strategies that will make IC manufacturing factories more efficient

• Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC)

  Established to perform long-range, collaborative research that address the challenges of chip design and test that we expect to be facing in the 8-12 year timeframe.

• Integrated Modeling Process and Computation for Technology (IMPACT)

  Our objective is to introduce innovative process steps, new sensors, and effective control strategies that will make IC manufacturing factories more efficient. IC production has experienced a dramatic improvement in productivity in the last 30 years, and the results have transformed society. This trend will end unless a systematic approach is used to enable the reliable reproducibility of the very small devices used in future IC products.

• Microfabrication Lab (Microlab)

  This is an interdisciplinary research facility supported by the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences.

• Parallel Computing Laboratory (ParLab)

  To take a fresh approach to the longstanding parallel computing problem, the ParLab's research agenda will be driven by compelling applications developed by domain experts. We will focus on exciting new applications that need much more computing horsepower to run well, rather than on legacy programs that already run well on today's computers. Our applications are in the areas of personal health, image retrieval, music, speech understanding, and web browsers.

• Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)

  The objective is to develop the foundations for the widespread adoption of advanced technologies that will help improve the operation of California's surface transportation systems.

• Quantum Architecture Research

  Explores architectural structures and technologies to enable large-scale quantum computing. Our work here at Berkeley is done in collaboration with UC Davis, MIT, and University of Washington.

• Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems Laboratory (RAD Lab)

  Internet research laboratory. Essential to this approach is the adoption of automated analysis techniques from Statistical Machine Learning (SML), control theory, and machine learning, to radically improve detection speed and quality in distributed systems, and using previous lessons from Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC) to provide fast recovery/reaction mechanisms that can be used when problems are detected.

• Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory

  The Robotics and Intelligent Machines research in EECS encompasses the work of a half dozen faculty members, and spans diverse topics from the microscopic to autonomous systems to human-robot interaction.

• Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST)

  Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) TRUST is devoted to the development of a new science and technology that will radically transform the ability of organizations (software vendors, operators, local and federal agencies) to design, build, and operate trustworthy information systems for our critical infrastructure.

• Tele-Immersion

  Tele-Immersion is an emerging technology that enables cooperative interaction between people and groups separated geographically while placing them in the same virtual environment. In this virtual space, people can emote and talk as if the other party is present locally.

• The Berkeley Automation Sciences Lab

  Center for research in automation and robotics. Our primary focus is efficient geometric algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing and Grasping. Research in automated manufacuting is needed now to make the high precision, rapidly evolving products of the future.

• U.C. Berkeley Cryoelectronics

  Research activities of this group includes: Single-flux-quantum circuits for logic systems operating at rates up to 50 Gbits/s and above; hybrids of Josephson devices and CMOS at 4K for random access memories; composite CMOS-Josephson structures; Innovations in processing of niobium superconductor integrated circuits to increase control of parameters; and internally shunted Josephson devices with nonhysteretic I-V characteristics. For more information please visit our website.

• Video and Image Processing Lab (VIP Lab)

  Video and image processing lab is focused on theories, algorithms, and applications of signal, image, and video processing; recent activities include protocols and methods for wireless multimedia communication and networking, 3D processing and modeling, and applications to semiconductor manufacturing.

• Virtual Development Center (VDC)

  Virtual Development Center. A framework in which non-technical women from many communities join with female university students and faculty and female computer scientists and engineers in industry in the design and creation of useful new technologies.

• Wireless Embedded Systems (WEBS)

  Wireless embedded systems.

• Wireless Foundations

  Wireless Foundations is a new research communications center at U.C. Berkeley EECS dedicated to providing the theoretical and algorithmic foundations for tomorrow's wireless systems.

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