The Bone Biomechanics Lab — originally called the Berkeley Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory — was established by Professor Tony Keaveny in 1993. Together with Professor Grace O’Connell, Professor Keaveny now co-directs the Berkeley BioMechanics Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The Bone Lab, Professor Keaveny’s group within the Berkeley …
Berkeley Fire Research Lab
The Berkeley Fire Research Lab is broadly interested in fire science problems, utilizing experiments and combustion and fluid dynamics theory to solve problems. Our work is centered around the fundamental physics that governs fire phenomena, applying knowledge from fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion to solve problems related to fire safety, climate and public health. …
Bio-Thermal Laboratory
Research focus: Heat and mass transfer in biomedical engineering and biotechnology; in particular, low temperature biology, bio-electronics and biomedical devices; in particular, micro and nano bionic technologies and electroporation, medical imaging; in particular, electrical impedance tomography and light imaging, biomedical numerical analysis; in particular, genetic and evolutionary algorithms and fractal techniques.
Combustion Fire Processes Laboratory
The laboratory researches topics such as ignition and flame spread of combustible material in space exploration environments and micro-gravity as well as ways in which wildland fires are started by hot metal particles and embers.
Computer Mechanics Lab
The CML was founded in January 1989 after several years of close collaborative research between the department’s faculty members and the computer industry. It consists of several major laboratories in such fields as Servo Control, Tribology, Dynamics and Instrumentation. CML is one of the leading research laboratories in ME dealing with the mechanics of sensitive …
Zhang Lab
We are a highly interdisciplinary research group in nanoscience and engineering, with expertise in optical and electrical measurements, material synthesis, and theoretical modeling. Our research has primarily focused on the interaction of light with nanostructures, leading to exotic electromagnetic properties not found naturally. These phenomena have plentiful applications in photonics, imaging, energy, and others.
Mechanical Systems Control Lab
The MSC Lab focuses on designing and developing control strategies for mechanical systems. The laboratory has engaged in pioneering research in precision motion control, robot control, vehicle control and mechatronics. The laboratory typically has 15 to 20 graduate students and 5 to 10 visitors such as visiting student researchers, visiting scholars and visiting industrial fellows.
Design for Nanomanufacturing
Our research spans the invention, modeling and simulation of micro- and nano-scale manufacturing processes. We are particularly focused on processes that can be used to fabricate extremely rich and complex, multi-scale geometries, such as are found in semiconductor integrated circuits and biological tissues. Recent work includes the introduction of the tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing process, …
Hybrid Robotics
Our research lies at the intersection of applied Nonlinear Control and Hybrid Dynamic Robotics. Our goal is to design controllers for achieving dynamic, fast, energy-efficient, and robust maneuvers on hybrid and underactuated systems such as legged and aerial robots. This will require addressing the challenges of high degree-of-freedom, high degree-of-underactuation, nonlinear and hybrid systems with …
Sohn Research Laboratory
Our lab broadly focuses on two major themes: cancer and stem-cell biology. For cancer, we are developing and employing quantitative, label-free techniques to isolate, screen, and identify cells for biomedical-research and for clinical diagnostic and monitoring applications. For stem-cell biology, we are developing lab-on-a-chip systems that would enable us to study stem cells in their specialized …
Shadden Lab
Our research focuses on the advancement of theoretical and computational methods to quantify complex fluid flow. Much of our research is geared towards modeling and analyzing hemodynamic conditions in the cardiovascular system. This multidisciplinary research combines advances in medical imaging, mathematical modeling, and computational mechanics. Our motivations for this research are 3-fold: (1) to uncover …
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Research focus: Classical Fluid Mechanic; Aircraft Wake Vortices; Biofluid Mechanics; Vortex Dynamics; Rotating Flows; Experimental Techniques; Bluff Body Aerodynamics; Turbulent Flows.
Medical Polymer Group
The MPG represents an interdisciplinary team of graduate and undergraduate students who work closely with faculty, surgeons, and industry scientists in order to develop biomaterials for structural function in orthopedic applications. We bring together academic, industrial and clinical perspectives to improve designs and materials used in total joint reconstruction and related devices. Our research broadly …
Berkeley Center for Control & Identification
The BCCI focuses on control theory, including but not limited to: System Identification, Robust Control, and Optimization Theory/Application.
Computational Solid Mechanical Laboratory
CSML was founded in 1992 and curates research in the area of computational solid mechanics. It employs several graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and other research visitors. CSML is co-located with the research groups of Professors Fai Ma and Stephen Morris.
Dynamics Lab
Our research focuses on the dynamics of mechanical systems and frequently draws upon rigid body dynamics, continuum mechanics, robotics, and biology. Current interests include discrete elastic rods, the dynamics of flexible risers, models for soft robot locomotion, and fluid-structure interaction. We use a combined analytical, computational, and experimental approach with the goal of elucidating the …
High Performance Robotics Lab
At the HiPeR Lab, we focus on low-level research on fundamental robotics capabilities, especially for Unmanned Aerial Systems. Areas of particular focus are safety, localization, and design. We aim to enhance the systems’ capabilities by advanced algorithms, mechanical design, and control strategies.
Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Our research group is focused on the fluid dynamics of vortices, waves, turbulence, and hydrodynamic stability. We use traditional analysis, CFD, and more recently Deep Learning and Bayesian Optimization. Our studies are motivated by geophysics, astrophysics, physics and engineering. Our research on fluids is carried out with large scale computations using spectral methods, Raynolds Averaged …
Lin Lab
The Lin Lab focuses on applying the principles of mechanical engineering to a wide range of applications in growing fields, including MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems), NEMS (Nanoelectromechanical systems), Nanotechnology, Synthesis of Nanomaterials, BioMEMS, Microfluidics, Plasmonics, and Energy.
Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Laboratory
Our research activities are focused on the design and control of a class of robotic systems worn or operated by humans to augment human mechanical strength, while the wearer’s intellect remains the central control system for manipulating the robot. Human power extenders can be used to maneuver heavy loads with great dexterity, speed, and precision, …
Gu Research Group
The Gu Research Group works at the intersection of mechanics, additive manufacturing, materials, and computer science. We aim to make additive manufacturing more accessible, economical, and ubiquitous. Using a bioinspired algorithmic-driven design approach, we harness tools such as advanced computational analysis, machine learning, and topology optimization to expand and revolutionize the field of smart additive manufacturing …
Laser Thermal Laboratory
Current research interests are focused on laser materials interactions, nanomanufacturing and the fundamental study of microscale and nanoscale transport phenomena.
Nano/Energy Lab
Our focus is (1) to develop a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of heat and energy transport and conversion in nanostructures, and (2) to apply this understanding to technologies ranging from thermoelectric energy conversion to thermal management.
Combustion Laboratory
The Combustion Laboratory was established in summer of 1995. Over the years, our research efforts have focused on computational investigations of various phenomena observed in combustion chemistry and physics.
Energy and Multiphase Transport Laboratory
The EMT Laboratory has been operating at Berkeley for decades pursuing research in important topics related to waste heat harvesting, phase change for energy capture and cooling technologies, renewable energy technologies and much more. We host both masters and PhD students as well as visiting scholars and post-doc academics. We foster a collaborative lab environment …
Model Predictive Control Lab
Our research lab focuses on the theoretical and real-time implementation aspects of constrained predictive model-based control. We deal with linear, nonlinear and hybrid systems in both small scale and complex large scale applications. Our contributions include the discovery of fundamental theoretical results, the development of novel control algorithms and their experimental validation carried out with the help of coworkers from industries and universities. We …
Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Research focus: Theoretical Fluid Dynamics; Nonlinear Wave Mechanics; Ocean and Coastal Waves Phenomena; Ocean Renewable Energy (Wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy); Nonlinear Dynamical Systems; Fluid Flow Control.
BEST Lab
The BEST (Berkeley [Energy and Sustainability Technologies/ Expert Systems Technologies/ Emergent Space Tensegrities]) Lab conducts research at the intersection of cutting-edge frontiers in design research, computational design, sustainability, gender equity, human-machine cognition, supervisory control, soft robotics, sensor fusion, design research and intelligent learning systems.
Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory
Mofrad Lab combines the state-of-the-art molecular and multiscale biomechanics, computational biology and bioinformatics, and statistical machine learning approaches toward understanding and diagnosis of human diseases.
Combustion Modeling Laboratory
Our work focuses on advanced simulations of combustion processes that include fluid dynamic, chemical kinetic, and heat transfer components. We utilize commercial software packages as well as custom in-house computational solvers for modeling advanced combustion problems. We closely collaborate with experimental researchers so that experimental data can guide our simulations and our simulations can guide …