Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 4720-1740
oreilly@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-0877
For more information see: Dynamics Lab
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Oliver M. O’Reilly is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at the University of California at Berkeley.
He received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). Subsequently, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. At Cornell, he studied under Phil Holmes and Frank Moon. After spending two years as a postdoc at the Institut für Mechanik at ETH-Zürich under Jürg Dual, he joined the faculty in Mechanical Engineering at Cal in 1992. During the 2019-2020 Academic Year, he was the Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate.
His interests span the fields of continuum mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. He has a broad range of specializations including directed (or Cosserat) theories of deformable bodies, constrained rigid body dynamics, contact mechanics, linear and nonlinear vibrations and linear and nonlinear dynamics of deformable bodies. He has applied these interests to a range of applications including soft robots, MEMS resonators, brake squeal, the dynamics of toys, motorcycle navigation, axially moving media, artificial and natural satellites, spinal kinematics and vehicle collision dynamics.
O’Reilly has coauthored over 100 archival journal articles, written three textbooks, coauthored a monograph, and is a co-inventor on two patents. He has also received multiple teaching awards including U.C. Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999, the Pi-Tau-Sigma Professor of the Year Award in 2003 and the Tau-Beta-Pi Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award in 2013.
Professor O’Reilly currently serves as a contributing editor for the journal Nonlinear Dynamics and is on the editorial boards of the following journals: Nonlinearity, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, and Nonlinear Dynamics and Mobile Robots.
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Research Description:
Dynamics, Vibrations, Continuum Mechanics
Key Publications:
To view a list of Professor O’Reilly’s publications, please visit the Dynamics Lab website.