Claire Tomlin is the James and Katherine Lau Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She was an assistant, associate and full professor at Stanford from 1998–2007, and in 2005 she joined Berkeley. Tomlin works in hybrid systems and control, and integrates machine learning methods with control theoretic methods in the field of safe learning. She works in the design of tools and technologies for air traffic and unmanned air vehicle systems. She is a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, she was awarded the IEEE Transportation Technologies Award “for contributions to air transportation systems, focusing on collision avoidance protocol design and avionics safety verification.”
Relevant expertise:
- Safety-critical autonomous systems: developing hybrid systems control and Hamilton-Jacobi reachability analysis for theoretically verified control strategies in safety-critical autonomous systems
- Autonomous air traffic control: creating collision avoidance protocols and verification methods for uncrewed aerial vehicles and automated air traffic management systems