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Alice M. Agogino

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Product Design Concentration Founder and Head Advisor, MEng Program
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering (7/1/2008-12/31/20221)

Blum Hall 200E
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
agogino@berkeley.edu
(510) 666-3704

For more information see: Best Lab
Current Classes Taught

Click here to view Professor Agogino’s biography, and here to view her CV.


Research Description:

Intelligent learning systems; information retrieval and data mining; multiobjective and strategic product design; nonlinear optimization; probabilistic modeling; intelligent control and manufacturing; sensor validation, fusion and diagnostics; wireless sensor networks; multimedia and computer-aided design; design databases; design theory and methods; MEMS Synthesis and CAD; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; gender equity.

 

Key Publications:

Click here for a list of Professor Agogino’s publications.

M. Reza Alam

Vice Chair, Equity & Inclusion
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
American Bureau of Shipping Chair in Ocean Engineering

6111 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
reza.alam@berkeley.edu
(510) 643-2591

For more information see: TAF Lab
Current Classes Taught

Born in Yazd, a small historic city at the geographic center of Iran, Reza received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Applied Mechanics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He then joined the Mechanical Engineering program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He received his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2005, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, and then served as a Postdoctoral associate (2008-2009) and Lecturer (2009-2011) at MIT. In July 2011 Reza joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, CA, as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.


Research Description:

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

 

Key Publications:

Publications in 2015

Jalali, M. A.; Khoshnood, A., and Alam, M.-R., “Microswimmer-Induced Chaotic Mixing“, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2015), In Press, [PDF]

 

Zareei, A. and Alam M.-R., “Cloaking in Shallow Water Waves via Nonlinear Medium Transformation“, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2015), Volume 778, pp. 273-287

 

Timmerberg, S, Börner, T., Shakeri, M., Ghorbani, R. and Alam M.-R., “The “Wave Bridge” For Bypassing Oceanic Wave Momentum“, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy (2015), [PDF]

 

Couston, L. A., Mei, C. C., and  Alam, M.-R. “Landslide Tsunamis in Lakes“, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 772 / June 2015, pp 784- 804. [PDF]

 

Nia, H. T., Jain, A. D., Liu, Y., Alam, M.-R., Barnas, R., and Makris N.C.,  “The evolution of air resonance power efficiency in the violin and its ancestors“ Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences, A 471: 20140905. (2015). [PDF]

 

Börner, T., and  Alam, M.-R. “Real Time Hybrid Modeling for Ocean Wave Energy Converters“, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 43, pages 784–795, (2015).

 

Please visit the TAF Lab website for the previous years’ publications.

George Anwar

Lecturer

5106 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
ganwar@berkeley.edu

For more information see: Current Classes Taught

Research Description:

Model Predictive Control, Distributed and Robust Constrained Control, Automotive Control Systems, Energy Efficient Building Control Systems

Murat Arcak

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering

569 Cory Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1770
arcak@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-4804

For more information see: Arcak Lab
Current Classes Taught

Professor Murat Arcak received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (1996) and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997 and 2000). He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2003, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 2006, the Control and Systems Theory Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2007, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2014. He is a member of SIAM and a fellow of IEEE.


Research Description:

Dynamical systems and control theory with applications to synthetic biology, multi-agent systems, and transportation.

 

Key Publications:

To view a list of Professor Arcak’s publication, please click here.

David B. Bogy

Professor of the Graduate School
Director, Computer Mechanics Laboratory

6103 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
dbogy@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-2570

For more information see: Computer Mechanics Lab
Current Classes Taught

Research Description:

Mechanics in computer technology: tribology in hard-disk drives, laser measurement systems, numerical simulations. Static and dynamic problems in solid and fluid mechanics.

Francesco Borrelli

Vice Chair, Master of Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
FANUC Chair in Mechanical Systems

5133 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
fborrelli@berkeley.edu
(510) 643-3871

For more information see: MPC Lab
Current Classes Taught

Francesco Borrelli received the `Laurea’ degree in computer science engineering in 1998 from the University of Naples `Federico II’, Italy. In 2002 he received the PhD from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is the author of more than one hundred fifty publications in the field of predictive control. He is author of the book Predictive Control published by Cambridge University Press, the winner of the 2009 NSF CAREER Award and the winner of the 2012 IEEE Control System Technology Award. In 2016 he was elected IEEE fellow. In 2017 he was awarded the Industrial Achievement Award by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Council.

 

Since 2004 he has served as a consultant for major international corporations. He was the founder and CTO of BrightBox Technologies Inc, a company focused on cloud-computing optimization for autonomous systems, acquired by Flex, Inc. in 2016. He was the co-director of the Hyundai Center of Excellence in Integrated Vehicle Safety Systems and Control at UC Berkeley. He is the co-founder of WideSense, Inc. a UC Berkeley spinoff focused on Mobility Contextual Intelligence.

 

His research interests are in the area of model predictive control and its application to automated driving, robotics, food and energy systems.


Research Description:

Model Predictive Control, Model-Based AI, Distributed and Robust Constrained Control, Automotive Control Systems, Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficient Building Control Systems, Solar Power Plants, Mobility Contextual Intelligence, Robotics and Food Systems.

 

Van P. Carey

A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering

6123 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
vpcarey@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-7177

For more information see: Energy and Multiphase Transport Laboratory
Current Classes Taught

Professor Carey is widely recognized for his research on near-interface micro- and nanoscale thermophysics and transport in liquid-vapor systems, and computational modeling and simulation of energy conversion and transport processes.  His research has frequently included modeling at multiple scales, ranging from the molecular level (molecular dynamics simulation of thermophysics) to the device and system level (multidevice system models).  His research is also exploring the use of machine learning strategies to enhance performance of energy conversion and transport in applications, and create energy technologies that can autonomously adapt to maximize their performance and reduce their environmental impact.  

 

Since joining the Berkeley faculty in 1982, Professor Carey’s research has spanned a variety of applications areas, including high performance solar thermal power systems, building and vehicle air conditioning, smelting and casting of aluminum, phase change thermal energy storage, heat pipes for aerospace applications, high heat flux cooling of electronics, data center thermal management, and energy efficiency of digital information systems.  His research has contributed to developing advanced heat rejection technologies for electronics cooling, building AC systems, and power plants, and he has developed performance models for Tesla turbine expanders for green energy conversion technologies and thermionic power generation technologies for space applications.

 

Carey’s current research emphasizes development of strategies to use machine learning tools to better understand and model flame spread processes in electronic systems and the physics of boiling heat transfer at surfaces covered with hydrophilic nanostructured coatings.  This includes exploring innovative ways to combine advanced instrumentation data and machine learning image analysis to understand the physics of boiling processes.   He is also using machine learning tools to enhance performance modeling of energy conversion devices, and developing machine-learning-based adaptive energy conversion systems that can autonomously adjust their operation to simultaneously maximize energy efficiency and meet operating requirements for the application of interest. 

 

Carey is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he has also served as the Chair of the Heat Transfer Division of ASME.  Carey received the James Harry Potter Gold Medal in 2004 for his eminent achievement in thermodynamics, and the Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science category (2007) from the ASME.  Carey is also a three-time recipient of the Hewlett Packard Research Innovation Award for his research on electronics thermal management and energy efficiency (2008, 2009, and 2010), and he received the 2014 Thermophysics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.


Key Publications:

To view a list of Professor Carey’s publications, please visit the Energy and Multiphase Transport Laboratory website.

James Casey

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

6125 Etcheverry Hall, Mailstop 1740
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
jimcasey@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-2863

For more information see: Current Classes Taught

Research Description:

Continuum mechanics, plasticity, approximate nonlinear theories of elasticity, dynamics of nearly rigid bodies.

 

Key Publications:

To view a list of Professor Casey’s publications, please click here.

Saikat Chaudhuri

Faculty Director, Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program
Faculty Director, Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub
Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor's Chair
Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Management of Organizations, Haas School of Business

6167 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
saikat.chaudhuri@berkeley.edu

For more information see: LinkedIn
Haas School of Business
M.E.T.

Saikat Chaudhuri is the inaugural Faculty Director of the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) Program, a flagship dual-degree program in engineering and business at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also the inaugural Faculty Director of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub, a startup incubator that aims to make entrepreneurship accessible and easier for everyone across the campus. He holds the Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor’s Chair at the university, with a joint faculty appointment in the Entrepreneurship & Innovation as well as Management of Organizations groups at the Haas School of Business, along with the department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering.

 

Chaudhuri’s research specializes in corporate growth and innovation strategies, particularly high-tech mergers and acquisitions, high-value outsourcing and partnerships, and technological innovation in dynamic environments. His publications span both scholarly and managerial outlets, and his work has been recognized from the field’s leading professional associations including the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society.

 

An award-winning educator, Chaudhuri has not only designed and taught popular undergraduate and MBA courses on corporate strategy, management of technology, and innovation. He has also led and delivered customized executive education programs to a myriad of top firms around the world. He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards and accolades at all levels across his academic career.

 

Chaudhuri’s work has been cited by leading media, and he is often interviewed or quoted by the global press on contemporary business affairs. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate forums, industry events, and academic conferences across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Based on his research and experience, he advises leading global corporations and governments worldwide, including providing expert legal testimony.

 

Chaudhuri came to Berkeley in 2021 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he served on the faculty of The Wharton School for over 16 years, holding leadership positions including Executive Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Interim Director of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology. His prior professional experience includes corporate development at Mannesmann AG, in addition to stints with Citibank, McKinsey and Company, and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

 

Chaudhuri earned his Bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Multinational Management from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, Master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University, and Doctoral degree in Technology and Operations Management from Harvard University.


Research Description:

  • Corporate growth and innovation strategies
  • Technological innovation in dynamic environments
  • Digital disruption and transformation
  • High-technology mergers and acquisitions
  • High-value strategic partnerships and outsourcing

 

Awards:

  • Finalist, H. K. M. Anvil Award for Outstanding Teaching, Graduate Division, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2009
  • William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, Undergraduate Division, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, MBA for Executives San Francisco Program, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Best Reviewer Award, Technology & Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management, 2014
  • Recognized as one of “Wharton’s 40 Under 40” Top Alumni Worldwide, 2014
  • Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2013
  • Finalist, Douglas Nigh Award, International Management Division, Academy of Management, 2013
  • Finalist, Fundação Dom Cabral Best Paper in Strategy/IB Theory, International Management Division, Academy of Management, 2013
  • Finalist, SKOLKOVO Best Paper Award, International Management Division, Academy of Management, 2013
  • Nomination, Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize, 2013
  • Nomination, Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize for Practice Implications, 2013
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduate Division, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2011, 2009, 2007
  • Recognized as Thought Leader by Cisco Systems, 2011-2007
  • David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching, Undergraduate Division, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
  • Nomination, Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize (Two papers), 2006
  • Finalist, Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award, Business Policy & Strategy Division, Academy of Management, 2005

 

Key Publications:

https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/SMR-0015

https://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/2020/deploying-artificial-intelligence-strategic-potential/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saikat-chaudhuri_thinkact-oct-2020-how-to-future-proof-activity-6734828212645449728-OWNK/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BG%2Bys5Ex0RaaoCc3jmvmxGw%3D%3D

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924224418308586

https://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Blockchain_Strategic-Path_White-Paper.pdf

https://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Digital-Disruption-White-Paper.pdf

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IDETC-CIE/proceedings-abstract/IDETC-CIE2014/46346/V003T04A011/257179

https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/ambpp.2013.234

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25614658?seq=1

https://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=5191&i=Table%20of%20Contents.htm  (See Book Chapter)

https://hbr.org/1999/09/capturing-the-real-value-in-high-tech-acquisitions

 

Jyh-Yuan Chen

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

6163 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
j_y_chen@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-3286

For more information see: Combustion Lab
Current Classes Taught

Professor J.-Y. Chen has near thirty years of experience on research of combustion processes after Ph.D. degree and two years of practical engineering with Boeing aircraft company. His research topics include air pollution, supersonic combustion, reduced reaction mechanisms, soot formation, flame extinction and re-ignition, applications of catalysts to combustion processes. Professor Chen earned his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1985 with his thesis research on modeling of turbulent reacting flows. Since then, he has worked at Sandia National Laboratories Combustion Research Facility at Livermore as a senior scientist staff member for six years. During this period, he continued and expanded his numerical modeling work in many areas of turbulent reacting flows. This research included development of realistic chemical kinetics for Probability Density Function (PDF) methods, reduced reaction mechanisms, turbulent mixing models, and models for interactions between turbulence and chemical kinetics. These model developments have been applied to studies of combustion in supersonic flows, soot formation in turbulent flows, flame extinction and re-ignition, and NOx formation in turbulent flames. Many of these topics are related to gas turbine combustion. Professor Chen joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department of University of California, Berkeley, in the Fall of 1991. His current research focuses on combustion-generated pollutants in laminar and turbulent flames, catalyst combustion, multi-component droplet combustion, homogeneous charge ignition and GDI engines, and large eddy simulations of turbulent flows, reduced chemistry for transportation fuels, and microwave assisted combustion. Professor Chen has coauthored one textbook of combustion and some one hundred and twenty-four journal reviewed papers of various topics in combustion and fluid mechanics. 

 

To view Professor Chen’s CV, please visit the Combustion Modeling Lab website.


Research Description:

Computational modeling of reactive systems, turbulent flows, combustion chemical kinetics.

Chris Dames

Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Howard Penn Brown Chair in Mechanical Engineering

6143 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
cdames@berkeley.edu
(510) 643-7013

For more information see: Nano/Energy Lab
Current Classes Taught

Chris Dames received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. His B.S. and M.S. are from UC Berkeley (1998, 2001). He was a faculty member at UC Riverside from 2006-2011 before joining UC Berkeley in 2011, and he has also worked as a research engineer for Solo Energy Corp. (1998-1999). His research interests emphasize fundamental studies of heat transfer and energy conversion at the nanoscale, using both theoretical and experimental methods. Some topics of current interest include graphene, nanocrystalline materials, mean free path distributions, thermoelectrics, biological systems, and highly anisotropic and nonlinear transport including thermal rectification. His research has been recognized with a DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009) and NSF CAREER award (2011).


Research Description:

Heat transfer and energy conversion at the micro and nano scale. Theoretical and experimental methods. Nanostructured thermoelectric materials. Thermal rectification. Graphene. Nonlinear, anisotropic, and asymmetric heat transfer.

 

Key Publications:

For a list of Professor Dames’ publications, please visit the Nano/Energy Lab website.