Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg is a professor at UC Berkeley. He holds the craiglist
Distinguished Chair in New Media, and is Professor of Industrial
Engineering and Operations Research, with secondary appointments in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the School of
Information.
Ken received his PhD in Computer Science from CMU in 1990 and studied
at the University of Pennsylvania, Edinburgh University, and the
Technion. From 1991-95 he taught at the University of Southern
California, and in Fall 2000 was visiting faculty at MIT Media Lab.
Ken is co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media and served as
its Director from 2007-2010.
Ken is Director of the Berkeley Laboratory for Automation Science and
Engineering where he and his students pursue research in four areas:
1) Geometric Algorithms for Robotics and Automation, 2) Networked
TeleRobots, 3) Medical Robotics, and 4) Collaborative Filtering and
Information Retrieval.
Under 1), Ken's lab develops and evaluates algorithms for
grasping, feeding, sorting, and fixturing industrial parts, with an
emphasis on mathematically rigorous solutions that require a minimum
of sensing and actuation to reduce costs and increase reliability.
Results include the first Bayesian approach to identifying parts with
grasping, the first part orienting algorithm complete for all
polygonal parts, complete algorithms for fixture loading and grasping
parts at concavities, and the definition of deform-closure for
grasping deformable parts, which resulted in Best Paper Awards and
several U.S. patents. Under 2), Ken's lab developed the first robot
publicly operable via the Internet (online continuously from
1994-2004) and leads experimental and theoretical work on
collaborative control of remote robots and cameras. Under 3), the lab
develops algorithms for robust motion planning for steerable needles,
in collaboration with John Hopkins University, dosimetry and models
for brachytherapy with UCSF, and in collaboration with Abbeel and
others, algorithms and motion planning for robot assisted surgery.
Under 4) Ken's lab develops algorithms and datasets for recommendation
systems such as Eigentaste, Jester, and Donation Dashboard, and
Opinion Space, a collaborative innovation system used by the
U.S. Department of State.
Ken and his students have published over 150 peer-reviewed research
papers, edited six books, and were granted seven U.S. patents. In
2004, Ken co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and
Engineering and served as Founding Chair of its Advisory Board.
Ken
was named National Science Foundation Young Investigator in 1994 and
selected as White House Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1995 by Bill
Clinton. Ken was elected to two terms as Vice-President of Technical
Activities for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is the
recipient of the Joseph Engelberger Award (2000), the IEEE Major
Educational Innovation Award (2001) and was elected IEEE Fellow in
2005.
Ken lives in Mill Valley with his daughters and wife,
filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain.
More information on Ken's research and teaching: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu
More information on Ken's artwork: http://www.ken.goldberg.net
goldberg@berkeley.edu