UC Berkeley

Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

The basic ideas underlying soft computing in current incarnation have links to many earlier influences, among them Prof. Zadeh’s 1965 paper on fuzzy sets; the 1973 paper on the analysis of complex systems and decision processes; and the 1979 report (1981 paper) on possibility theory and soft data analysis.
BISC Program is the world-leading center for basic and applied research in soft computing.

Professor Schruben is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on simulation. His interests lie in optimization and design of experiments for complex systems, as well as optimization of hi-tech production and operations.

Phil Kaminsky is a professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University in 1997. Prior to that, he worked in production engineering and control at Merck and Co. His current research focuses on the analysis and development of robust and efficient techniques for the design and operation of logistics systems and supply chains.

Rob Leachman is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Leachman is the author of more than 50 technical publications and has supervised more than 30 PhD dissertations concerning production and operations management. He also is President and CEO of Leachman and Associates LLC, a firm providing consulting and software for operations management and logistics analysis to corporations and governments.

I work mainly on the design, analysis and control of stochastic systems such as communication andmanufacturing systems. However, a good part of my effort is directed towards developing methodologies tosimplify these tasks.

Jan holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has been the the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice.

Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley

David M. Auslander is Professor of the Graduate School, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley.

Professor
UC Berkeley EECS

Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Dr. Joseph received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in EECS in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1998, all from MIT. He has been on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley since 1998, holding the Chancellor’s Associate Professor Chair since 2007. Starting in June, he will be the director of the Intel Research Berkeley Laboratory.

Joseph M. Hellerstein is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Hellerstein’s work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing.

I am a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, specializing in large-scale data management infrastructure and applications. My research interests are primarily in the Database (DB) and Operating Systems and Networking Technology (OSNT) areas. I am a director of the Algorithms, Machines and People Lab (AMPLab) – an industry-supported collaboration of students, postdocs, and faculty who specialize in data management, cloud computing, statistical machine learning and other important topics necessary for making sense of vast amounts of heterogeneous and unruly data.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Professor, Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Thomas Kalil is currently serving as the Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council.

Vivek Subramanian received his BS in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University in 1994. He received his MS and PhD in electrical engineering, in 1996 and 1998 respectively, from Stanford University.

Lewis Lancaster, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts, was the first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas. He then began to research the problems of converting Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which resulted in major CD ROM databases.

Professor Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley with extensive experience in computer security and cryptography. Dr. Wagner is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a CRA Digital Government Fellow. Dr. Wagner was a co-designer of one of the Advanced Encryption Standard finalists, and he remains active in the areas of computer security, cryptography, and e-voting.

Kannan Ramchandran received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1993. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. His research group is the BASiCS group. Between 1993 and 1999 he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Lab (CSL) at UIUC and a full-time Beckman Institute faculty member in the Image Formation and Processing Group.