Faculty/Lead Researcher

Charisma Acey

Research Director of IURD, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning
Department of City and Regional Planning
Institute of Urban and Regional Development

Charisma Acey is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Her background includes work, research and travel to countries in West Africa, southern Africa and Central America. Her work focuses on local and regional environmental sustainability, with a focus on poverty reduction, urban governance, environmental justice, food justice and access to basic services. Her work relies on both quantitative and qualitative, community-based research approaches. Current and past research projects, teaching and service learning courses have focused on addressing barriers to...

Ken Alex

Project Climate Director
Lead Researcher
Berkeley Law

Ken Alex is the Director of Project Climate at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on the most promising climate solutions and moving them more quickly to policy and scale.

From 2011 to 2018, Ken was a Senior Policy Adviser to Governor Jerry Brown, Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, and Chair of the Strategic Growth Council, focusing on climate, energy, environment, and land use issues. Before joining the Governor’s Office, Ken was the Senior Assistant Attorney General heading the environment section of the California Attorney General’s Office,...

Michael Anderson

Professor
Department of Agricultural Resources and Economics
Faculty

Michael Anderson is a 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.

Joshua Apte

Associate Professor
Faculty
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Joshua Apte is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Apte’s research focus is air quality engineering and various techniques for air pollution exposure assessment. His research group uses field measurements, mathematical models, and analyses of large datasets to address policy-relevant air pollution challenges related to energy, infrastructure, climate change, and human health. Much of his research is motivated by a desire to identify technologies, policies, and strategies for improving the environmental sustainability of cities and the built...

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 and Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in CEE
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
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Faculty

Alexandre Bayen is the Associate Provost for Moffett Field Program Development at UC Berkeley, and the Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science(link is external), and Civil and Environmental Engineering(link is external). From 2014 - 2021, he served as the Director of the...

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...