Alexandre Bayen is director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, associate provost for the Berkeley Space Center, and Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a faculty scientist in mechanical engineering, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). From 2014–21, he served as the director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS).
Bayen received an engineering degree in applied mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique in France in 1998 and a master’s degree and doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was a visiting researcher at the NASA Ames Research Center from 2000–03. Between January and December 2004, he worked as the research director of the Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aerodynamiques (Ministere de la Defense in Vernon, France), where he holds the rank of major. He has been on the faculty at UC Berkeley since 2005.
Bayen has authored two books and over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He received the William F. Ballhaus Prize from Stanford University in 2004 and a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009. He was named one of the NASA Top 10 Innovators on Water Sustainability in 2010. His projects Mobile Century and Mobile Millennium received the Best of ITS Award for Best Innovative Practice at the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems in 2008 and a Tranny Award from the California Transportation Foundation in 2009. Mobile Millennium has been featured more than 200 times in the media, including broadcast television and radio stations (ABC, BBC, CBS, CNET, KGO, NBC, NPR) and in the popular press (L.A. Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post).
Bayen is the recipient of a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House. He is also the recipient of an Okawa Research Grant Award, the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
For Bayen’s full curriculum vitae, please visit the UC Berkeley Mobile Sensing Lab website.
