Faculty/Lead Researcher

Michael Anderson

Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Resources and Economics
Faculty

Michael Anderson is Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006) and a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College (1999). He has published in a range of economics, scientific, medical, and statistical journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Science.

Murat Arcak

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Faculty
Biography Murat Arcak's research is in dynamical systems and control theory with applications to synthetic biology, multi-agent systems, and transportation. Prior to joining Berkeley in 2008, he was a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2003, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 2006, the Control and Systems Theory...

Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos

Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Smart Infrastructure Center

Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept, University of California at Berkeley, 2008

MSc., Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept, University of California at Berkeley, 2004

Ptychion, Civil Engineering Dept (5-year mandatory program), University of Patras, Greece, 2003

Ruzena Bajcsy

Professor Emerita
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Berkeley DeepDrive
Faculty

Ruzena Bajcsy (LF’08) received the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in 1957 and 1967, respectively, and the Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1972. She is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS). Prior to joining Berkeley, she headed the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at...

Alexandre Bayen

Professor
Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Faculty

Alexandre Bayen is the Associate Provost for Moffett Field Program Development at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also a Faculty Scientist in Mechanical Engineering, at the Lawrence Berkeley...

Tracy Becker

Vice Chair for Research & Technical Support Ed & Diane Wilson Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Smart Infrastructure Center

Ph.D. - Civil and Environmental Engineering (SEMM) - University of California, Berkeley, 2011

M.S. - Civil and Environmental Engineering (SEMM), University of California, Berkeley, 2007

B.S. - Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2006

Francesco Borrelli

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty

Francesco Borrelli received the `Laurea’ degree in computer science engineering in 1998 from the University of Naples `Federico II’, Italy. In 2002 he received the PhD from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is the author of more than one hundred publications in the field of predictive control. He is author of the book Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems published by Springer Verlag, the winner of the 2009 NSF CAREER...

Michael Cassidy

Chancellor's Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
National Institute for Congestion Relief
Alumni
Faculty

Dr. Michael Cassidy is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on traffic and transportation operations, traffic control, and public transit. In 24 years of academic activity at Purdue University and the University of California, Berkeley Dr. Cassidy has published roughly 70 papers in refereed journals and has...

Robert Cervero

Professor Emeritus
City and Regional Planning
Faculty

Robert Cervero works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning, focusing on the nexus between urban transportation and land-use systems. Professor Cervero has and continues to serve as an advisor and consultant on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide. His most recent book, Beyond Mobility, co-authored with Erick Guerra and Stefan Als, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. He is the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research and is a two-time recipient of the Article of the Year Award from...

Karen Chapple

Professor Emerita
City and Regional Planning
Alumni
Faculty

Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America, with a focus on economic development and housing. Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development (Routledge, 2015), which won the...