Ken Goldberg, Professor
IEOR and EECS and School of Information
425 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1758
(510) 643-9565 (phone), (510) 642-1403 (fax)
, http://goldberg.berkeley.edu
Professional Preparation
1984: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. BSE in EE and Economics.
1986: Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, Israel. Center for Manufacturing Systems and Robotics, Visiting Researcher.
1990: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. School of Computer Science. Dissertation: Stochastic Plans for Robotic Manipulation. MS, PhD.
Appointments
2009-present. craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media, UC Berkeley.
2002-present : University of California, Berkeley, CA. Professor. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in College of Engineering with joint appointment in the School of Information.
1995-July 2002 : University of California, Berkeley, CA. Associate Professor. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) (joint appointment as of 7/2000)
1991-95: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Assistant Professor, Computer Science. Associate Director, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems.
Awards
2011,Prince of Wales Visiting Professor.University of Wales, UK.
2011,IEEE Award.for "Distinguished Service and Innovation as Vice-President of Technical Activities and Co-Founder of the Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering." IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
2011,Fellow.Arts Research Center. UC Berkeley
2008, Plenary Speaker. AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems.
2007, Plenary Speaker. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
2005, Elected IEEE Fellow.
2004, Best Manipulation Paper, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
2004-5, Distinguished Lecturer. IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
2001, Major Educational Innovation Award, IEEE.
2000, Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award, Robot Industries Association.
1995, Presidential Faculty Fellowship, White House and National Science Foundation.
1994, Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
5 Publications Related to Proposal
1. Opinion Space: A Scalable Tool for Browsing Online Comments. Siamak Faridani, Ephrat Bitton, Kimiko Ryokai, Ken Goldberg. ACM International Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI). Atlanta, GA. April 2010.
2. Eigentaste 5.0: Constant-Time Adaptability in a Recommender System Using Item Clustering, Tavi Nathanson, Ephrat Bitton, and Ken Goldberg. Working Paper Track. ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Minneapolis, MN, Oct 2007.
3. Eigentaste: A Constant-Time Collaborative Filtering Algorithm, Ken Goldberg, Theresa Roeder, Dhruv Gupta, and Chris Perkins, Information Retrieval, 4(2), 133-151. July 2001.
4. Nonparametric Belief Propagation for Distributed Tracking of Robot Networks with Noisy Inter-Distance Measurements. Jeremy Schiff, Erik Sudderth, Ken Goldberg. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). St Louis, Oct 2009.
5. The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, Ken Goldberg, Editor. MIT Press, June, 2000.
5 Other Publications
1. A Networked Telerobotic Observatory for Collaborative Remote Observation of Avian Activity and Range Change. Siamak Faridani, Bryce Lee, Selma Glasscock, John Rappole, Dezhen Song, Ken Goldberg. IFAC Conference on Networked Robots (NetRob). Denver, CO. Oct 2009.
2. Hydra: A Framework and Algorithms for Mixed-Initiative UAV-Assisted Search and Rescue. Ephrat Bitton and Ken Goldberg. IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Washington, DC. August 2008.
3. Networked Teleoperation. Dezhen Song, Ken Goldberg, Nak Young Chong. In: Springer Handbook of Robotics. Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib, Eds. Springer-Verlag, April 2008.
4. Respectful Cameras: Detecting Visual Markers in Real-Time to Address Privacy Concerns, Jeremy Schiff, Marci Meingast, Deirdre Mulligan, Shankar Sastry, and Ken Goldberg. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, CA, Oct 2007.
5. Approximate Algorithms for a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Camera. Dezhen Song and Ken Goldberg. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 1061-1070. Oct 2007.
Synergistic Activities
1. 2011-present, Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder (2004): IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).
2. 2011-present, Faculty Director, UC Berkeley CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative
3. Editorial Advisory Board. Springer-Verlag: Advanced Robotics Book Series.
Collaborators Within Past 48 Months
Pieter Abbeel (UCB), Michael Branicky, CASE Western, John Canny, UCB, Greg Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins; University, Ron Fearing, UCB; Dan Halperin, Tel Aviv University; I-Chow Hsu, UCSF; James O’Brien, UC Berkeley; Mark Overmars, Utrecht University; Allison Okamura, Johns Hopkins; Jean Pouliot; UCSF; Dezhen Song, TAMU, Jur van den Berg (UNC) , Shankar Sastry (UCB), Frank van der Stappen, Utrecht University;
Phd and Postgraduate Students
Ron Alterovitz, UNC; Dezhen Song (Texas A&M), Karl Bohringer, U of Washington; K. Gopal Gopalakrishnan, Intel; Michael Idinopolous, Mckinsey Corp; Dukhyun Kang, Samsung (Korea); Vladlen Koltun, Stanford; Hadi Moradi Samsung (Korea); Anatol Pashkevich, U of Belarus; Anil Rao, Qualcomm; Dezhen Song, Texas A&M; Rick Wagner, TRW Corp; Jeff Wiegley, Cal State Northridge; Kyeonah Yu, Korea Technical Univ.; Jijie Xu, U. Rochester, Mike Tao Zhang, Intel.
PhD Advisor: Matt Mason, CMU