Ken Goldberg

craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media and Professor, IEOR and EECS and School of Information

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1990
Computer Science

425 Sutardja Dai Hall
(510) 643-9565
E-mail: goldbergieor.berkeley.edu

Personal Webpage:
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg

"At the Automation Sciences Lab, my students and I are advancing research in robotics and automation with projects in medical robotics, networked telerobotics, automated manufacturing, and new media artforms."

Ken Goldbergis craigslist Distinguished Professor in New Media and Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, with secondary appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the School of Information. Goldberg received his PhD in Computer Science from CMU in 1990 and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Edinburgh University, and the Technion. In 2004, Goldberg co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and is Founding Chair of its Advisory Board. Goldberg was named National Science Foundation Young Investigator in 1994 and NSF/Whitehouse Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1995. He is the recipient of the Joseph Engelberger Award (2000), the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award (2001) and was elected IEEE Fellow in 2005.

Current research projects, classes, and research papers can be found at:

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg

Research
  • Medical Robotics
  • Algorithmic Automation
  • Geometric Algorithms
  • Internet Applications and Collaborative Filtering
Publications
Ph.D. Theses Supervised
  • Dr. Jeremy Schiff. Structured Tracking for Safety, Security, and
    Privacy: Algorithms for Fusing Noisy Estimates from Sensor, Robot, and
    Camera Networks. UC Berkeley EECS Dept, Aug 2009.
  • Dr. Ron Alterovitz. Planning and Optimization Algorithms for Image-Guided Medical Procedures. UC Berkeley IEOR Dept, Aug 2006.
  • Dr. K. Gopal Gopalakrishnan. Algorithms, Models, and Metrics for the Design of Fixtures using Part Concavities. UC Berkeley IEOR Dept, Aug 2005.
  • Dr. Dezhen Song. Systems and Algorithms for Collaborative Tele-Operation. UC Berkeley IEOR Dept, Aug 2004.
  • Dr. Mike Tao Zhang. Optimal Design of Self-Aligning Robot Gripper Jaws. UC
    Berkeley IEOR Dept, 2001.
  • Dr. Hadi Moradi. Force Based Assembly Planning and Grouping For Compiling
    Assembly Plans. USC Computer Science Dept, 1999.
  • Dr. Jeff Wiegley. Sorting Convex Polygonal Parts Without Sensors On A
    Conveyor. USC Computer Science Dept, 1998.
  • Dr. Richard Wagner. Strut Fixtures: Modular Synthesis and
    Efficient Algorithms. USC Computer Science Dept, 1997.
  • Dr. Dukhun Kang. Efficient Learning of RISC Sensor-Based Manipulation
    Plans. USC Computer Science Dept, 1995.
  • Dr. Kyeonah Yu. Loading Sensor-Based Fixtures with Compliant Motions. USC
    Computer Science Dept, 1995.
  • Dr. Anil Rao. Algorithmic Plans for Robotic Manipulation. 1992 USC
    Electrical Engineering Dept, 1992.