Our Faculty

Elad Alon

Elad Alon joined the University of California at Berkeley in Jan. 2007, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences as well as a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He has held founding, consulting, or visiting positions at Locix, Lion Semiconductor, Cadence, Xilinx, Sun Labs, Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett Packard, and IBM Research, where he worked on digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits for computing, high-speed communications, and test and measurement.

Education

2006, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
2002, M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
2001, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Venkat Anantharam

Elad Alon joined the University of California at Berkeley in Jan. 2007, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences as well as a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He has held founding, consulting, or visiting positions at Locix, Lion Semiconductor, Cadence, Xilinx, Sun Labs, Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett Packard, and IBM Research, where he worked on digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits for computing, high-speed communications, and test and measurement.

Education

1986, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1984, C.Phil, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
1983, M.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
1982, M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1980, B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Elad Alon joined the University of California at Berkeley in Jan. 2007, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences as well as a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He has held founding, consulting, or visiting positions at Locix, Lion Semiconductor, Cadence, Xilinx, Sun Labs, Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett Packard, and IBM Research, where he worked on digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits for computing, high-speed communications, and test and measurement.

Education

2006, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
2002, M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
2001, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Ana Claudia Arias

Prof. Arias received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2001. Prior to that, she received her master and bachelor degrees in Physics from the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil in 1997 and 1995 respectively. She joined the University of California, Berkeley in January of 2011.Prof. Arias was the Manager of the Printed Electronic Devices Area and a Member of Research Staff at PARC, a Xerox Company. She went to PARC, in 2003, from Plastic Logic in Cambridge, UK where she led the semiconductor group.

Education

2001, Ph.D., Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
1997, M.S., Physics, Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil
1995, B.S., Physics, Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil

David Attwood

David Attwood received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from New York University in 1972. He has been a Professor in Residence at UC Berkeley since 1989. He was co-founder of the Applied Science and Technology Ph.D. program. He has been faculty advisor for the undergraduate Engineering Physics program for 25 years. His research interests center on the use of short wavelength electromagnetic radiation, x-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation in the 0.1-30 nm range. Topics of particular interest include coherance at x-ray wavelengths, element specific nanoscale imaging, and EUV lithography.

Education

1972, Ph.D., Applied Physics, New York University

Babak Ayazifar

Babak Ayazifar joined the EECS faculty at UC Berkeley in 2005, where he is now a Teaching Professor. He earned his BS in EE from Caltech, and his SM and PhD in EECS from MIT. His dissertation, Graph Spectra and Modal Dynamics of Oscillatory Networks, uses spectral graph theory to explore how a network's topology influences its dynamics. At MIT, Babak received the Harold L. Hazen Award for outstanding teaching (1995). He advanced to the rank of Instructor-G, which conferred teaching assignments ordinarily reserved for faculty (1996). He won the Goodwin Medal—MIT's most prestigious award for a graduate student who "has performed above and beyond the norm, and whose teaching efforts can truly be characterized as `conspicuously effective'" (1999).

Education

2003, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1989, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Caltech

Christian BorgsProfessor

Christian Borgs is Professor in the Berkeley AI Research Group (BAIR) in the EECS department at Berkeley. He worked at Microsoft Research for over 22 years, where he started in 1997 as co-founder and co-director of the Theory Group. In 2008, he co-founded Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a lab that brings together traditional CS and statistics research with economics as well as qualitative social science research. Borgs was Deputy Managing Director of this lab from 2008 until he left Microsoft for Berkeley in 2020. Borgs holds a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from the University of Munich and a Habilitation in mathematical physics from the Free University in Berlin.

Education

1987, PhD, Mathematical Physics, Max-Planck-Institute and Universitat Munchen

Jennifer Chayes

Jennifer Chayes is Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and Dean of the School of Information. She is Professor of EECS, Mathematics, Statistics, and the School of Information. Before joining Berkeley, she was at Microsoft for over 20 years, where she was Technical Fellow, and founder and managing director of three interdisciplinary labs: Microsoft Research New England, New York City, and Montreal. Chayes has received numerous awards for both leadership and scientific contributions, including the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Leadership Award, the John von Neumann Award of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and an honorary doctorate from Leiden University.

Education

1983, PhD, Mathematical Physics, Princeton University
1979, BA, Biology and Physics, Wesleyan University

Sarah Chasins

Sarah E. Chasins joined the EECS faculty in 2020. Her research focuses on programming languages and program synthesis, with an emphasis on work that brings together programming systems, HCI, and data science.Programming Systems (PS) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), PL + HCI for social science and data science. The design of modern programming languages. Principles and techniques of scanning, parsing, semantic analysis, and code generation. Implementation of compilers, interpreters, and assemblers. Overview of run-time organization and error handling.

Education

2019, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
2012, B.A., Computer Science, Psychology, Swarthmore College

Anca Dragan

Anca runs the InterACT lab, focusing on enabling robots to work with, around, and in support of people. Her goal is for robots to autonomously generate their behavior in a way that moves beyond functionality and formally accounts for interaction with humans. This combines optimal control, machine learning, and cognitive science, with applications in collaborative manipulation and autonomous driving. Anca got her PhD in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on planning intent-expressive robot motion.

Education

2015, PhD, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
2009, B.S., Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen