Members

Prof. Kristofer S. J. Pister

Kristofer Pister is a professor in the UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department. He is faculty director of the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory, co-director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, and co-director of the Ubiquitous Swarm Lab. He received a BS in applied physics from UC San Diego in 1986 and MS and PhD degrees in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1989 and 1992, then taught in the UCLA electrical engineering department until joining the Berkeley faculty in 1996. His accomplishments include the development of Smart Dust—sub-millimeter wireless sensor network nodes—and he has since worked toward fully autonomous microsystems.

[ksjp@berkeley.edu] [512 Cory Hall] [EECS faculty listing] [personal website]

Lydia Lee

Develops sensor systems and computational hardware for autonomous microrobots.

[personal website]

Nathan Lambert

Nathan is a PhD candidate working at the intersection of robotics, control, and reinforcement learning to enable autonomous micro-agents. He is interested broadly in embodied AI, robot learning, swarm-scale multi-agent systems, and much more.

[nol@berkeley.edu] [personal website]

Alex Moreno

Integrates electrical systems for autonomous microrobots.

Dillon Acker-James

I’m applying my device physics background from the Mishra Lab at UC Santa Barbara to MEMS in the BAMLAB. I hope to move into industry after graduating with my PhD.

[dackerjames@berkeley.edu] [LinkedIn]

Daniel Teal

Builds robots; works toward better and automated micro and nanomanufacturing.

[dteal@berkeley.edu] [personal website]

Alexander Alvara

Interested in nanoscale science and microsystems for space exploration, deep-sea exploration, and communication, as well as search and rescue. Received three bachelor’s degrees in materials science, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

[engineer_alavara@berkeley.edu] [personal website]

Titan Yuan

Characterizes and develops for SCμM.

Jackson Paddock

Characterizes and develops for SCμM.

Austin Patel

Currently reducing energy consumption of solar powered SCμM chips to transmit and receive wireless packets for use in small IoT and sensing applications. Interested in small scale robotics and control systems.

[austinpatel@berkeley.edu]