Alex Aiken, EECS, expert in programming semantics, compilers, and
verification;
Alex Aiken received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1988. He was a Research Staff
member at the IBM Almaden Research Center before joining Berkeley in 1993.
Areas of research include type systems, static program analysis and abstract
interpretation, constraint reso-lution algorithms, parallel programming,
language design, domain specific languages, user programming, and visualization.
Eric Brewer, EECS, expert in middleware systems and scalable applications;
Eric Brewer received the S.M. and Ph.D. in CS from MIT in 1992 and 1994.
He joined Berkeley in 1994 as an assistant professor. His research interests
are parallel, distributed, and scalable systems. Under DARPA sponsorship,
Brewer developed scalable search technology for NOWs and application adaptation
technology for BARWAN. He is the PI of the DARPA-funded Ninja Project, developing
a scalable middleware architecture.
John Canny, EECS, expert in physical and 3D interfaces, and human-centered
systems;
John Canny received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1987. He joined the Berkeley faculty
at that time, and is now a Professor. His research interests are computational
geometry and alge-bra, robot path planning, computer graphics and image
processing, robotics and tele-presence. He has been creating a focused research
activity in human-centered computing.
David Culler, EECS, expert in scalable systems and architecture;
David Culler received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1989. He joined the Berkeley
faculty at time, where he is now a Professor and Vice Chair for Computing
and Networking. His expertise is in computer architecture, with an emphasis
on parallel systems. He led the DARPA-funded NOW Project, and serves as
PI of the Millennium Project.
Joe Hellerstein, EECS, expert in information management and data mining;
Joseph Hellerstein received his Ph.D. in CS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1995. He has been an Assistant Professor in the CS Division since then.
His area of re-search is databases, in particular, extensible systems and
support for statistical processing and visualization of the contents of
the database.
Anthony Joseph, EECS, expert in distributed and mobile systems;
Anthony Joseph received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1998. He joined Berkeley in
1998, where he is an Assistant Professor. His graduate work focused on application
support for intermittent connectivity in a mobile computing environment.
He is currently working integrating mobile telephony and IP networks. His
research interest is computer systems.
Randy Katz, EECS, expert in wireless communications and mobile computing;
Randy Katz received the M.S. and Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1978 and 1980. He
joined the Berkeley EECS in 1983, where he is Department Chair and UMC Distinguished
Profes-sor. Under DARPA sponsorship, Katz implemented the SPUR memory system,
RAID, and the BARWAN wireless overlay network. His research interest is
mobile networking.
John Kubiatowicz, EECS, expert in scalable systems and architectures;
John Kubiatowicz received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1997, joining Berkeley as
an Assistant Professor in 1998. At MIT, he implemented the Alewife Communications
and Memory Management Unit. His current research interests is architecture
and distributed storage.
James Landay, EECS, expert in user interfaces and usability evaluation;
James Landay is an Assistant Professor of CS at Berkeley. He received his
M.S. and Ph.D. from CMU in 1993 and 1996 respectively. His areas of interest
are HCI, informal communications, mobile computing, user interface design
tools, visual programming lan-guages, demonstrational programming, and pen-based
user interfaces.
Richard Newton, EECS, expert in CAD, new UIs in design systems;
Richard Newton is a Professor in EECS at Berkeley. His research interests
are the com-puter-aided design of electronic systems, the application of
the Web for design, advanced UIs and immersion interfaces for design, Java
for the specification of hardware and em-bedded software, and new design
techniques for deep sub-micron technologies.
David Patterson, EECS, expert in computer architecture;
David Patterson received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1977, when he joined Berkeley.
He holds the Pardee Chair. Under DARPA sponsorship, he developed RISC, SOAR,
SPUR, RAID, NOW, Tertiary Disk, and IRAM. His research interest is computer
architecture.
Kris Pister, EECS, expert in MEMS sensors, actuators, communicators;
Kristofer Pister received his his M.S. and Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1989 and
1992. In 1992 he became an Assistant Professor of EE at UCLA. In 1996 he
joined the faculty Berkeley faculty as an Associate Professor. He invented
the polysilicon hinge, now used by many MEMS groups around the world. His
current research interests are processing MEMS and "smart dust,"
sensing and communication platforms the size of a grain of sand.
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, EECS, expert in embedded system design
and CAD;
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli received his Dr. Ing. degree from the Politechnico
di Milano in 1971. He joined the EECS Department in 1976, where he is now
a Professor. His research interests are in computer-aided design, formal
methods, and hybrid systems.
Robert Wilensky, EECS, expert in digital libraries and artificial
intelligence;
Robert Wilensky received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1978, when he joined the
Berkeley Faculty, where he is now Professor. He has served as Chair of the
CS Division. His re-search interests are artificial intelligence, planning,
knowledge representation, natural language processing, and digital information
systems. He is currently PI of Berkeley's Digital Library Project, supported
by NASA, NSF, and DARPA.
Randy H. Katz, 17 July 1999, randy@cs.Berkeley.edu