Ken Goldberg, Professor
IEOR and EECS and School of Information, UC Berkeley (and UCSF)
425 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1758
(510) 643-9565 (phone), (510) 642-1403 (fax)
goldberg@berkeley.edu, 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. Visiting Researcher.
1990: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. School of Computer Science.
Dissertation: Stochastic Plans for Robotic Manipulation. MS, PhD.
Appointments
2011-present, Professor of Radiation Oncology, UC San Francisco Medical School.
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.
1991-95: University of Southern California, LA, CA. Assistant Professor, Computer Science.
5 Publications Related to Proposal
1. DevCAFE 1.0: A Participatory Platform for Assessing Development Initiatives in the
Field. Brandie Nonnecke, Sanjay Krishnan, Jay Patel, Mo Zhou, Laura Byaruhanga,
Dorothy Masinde, Maria Elena Meneses, Alejandro Martin del Campo, Camille
Crittenden, Ken Goldberg. Proceedings of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology
Conference (GHTC), Seattle, WA. Oct, 2015. Winner, Best Paper Award.
2. Planning Curvature and Torsion Constrained Ribbons in 3D with Application to
Intracavitary Brachytherapy. Sachin Patil, Jia Pan, Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg. IEEE
Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). , Volume 12, Issue 4, pp.
1332-1345. October 2015.
3. Two Large Open-Access Datasets for Fitts' Law of Human Motion and a Succinct
Derivation of the Square-Root Variant. Ken Goldberg, Siamak Faridani, and Ron
Alterovitz. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. V 45(1). pp. 62-73.
February 2015.
4. [IA58] Material Evaluation of PC-ISO for Customized, 3D Printed, Gynecologic 192Ir
HDR Brachytherapy Applicators. Katherine Mellis, Timmy Siauw, Atchar Sudhyadhom,
Rajni Sethi, I-Chow Hsu, Jean Pouliot, Animesh Garg, Ken Goldberg, J. Adam
Cunha. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (JACMP). Volume 16, Number 1.
January 2015.
5. An Efficient Proximity Probing Algorithm for Metrology. Fatemeh Panahi, Aviv Adler,
A. Frank van der Stappen, and Ken Goldberg. IEEE Int'l Conference on Automation
Science and Engineering, Madison, WI, August 2013. Finalist for Best Student Paper
Award.
5 Other Publications
1. Unsupervised Surgical Task Segmentation with Milestone Learning. Sanjay Krishnan,
Animesh Garg, Sachin Patil, Colin Lea, Gregory Hager, Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg.
International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR). Genoa, IT, Sept, 2015.
2. Models of Human-Centered Automation in a Debridement Task. K. Nichols, A. Murali,
S. Sen, K. Goldberg and A. M. Okamura. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems. Hamburg, Germany, Sept, 2015.
3. A Paced Shared-Control Teleoperated Architecture for Supervised Automation of
Multilateral Surgical Tasks. K. Shamaei, Y. Che, A. Murali, S. Sen, S. Patil, K. Goldberg
and A. M. Okamura. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems. Hamburg, Germany, Sept, 2015.
4. A Survey of Research on Cloud Robotics and Automation. Ben Kehoe, Sachin Patil,
Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and
Engineering (T-ASE). Special Issue on Cloud Robotics and Automation. Volume 12,
Issue 2. April 2015.
5. Learning by Observation for Surgical Subtasks: Multilateral Cutting of 3D Viscoelastic
and 2D Orthotropic Tissue Phantoms Adithyavairavan Murali, Siddarth Sen, Ben Kehoe,
Animesh Garg, Seth McFarland, Sachin Patil, W. Douglas Boyd, Susan Lim, Pieter
Abbeel, Ken Goldberg. Finalist, Best Medical Robotics Paper Award. IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation. Seattle, WA. June 2015.
Synergistic Activities
1. 2011-present, Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder (2004): IEEE Transactions on Automation
Science and Engineering (T-ASE).
2. 2002- present, Editorial Advisory Board. Springer-Verlag: Advanced Robotics Book Series.
3. 2015-present, Faculty Director, CITRIS People and Robots Initiative.
Collaborators Within Past 48 Months
Pieter Abbeel, James O’Brien, Trevor Darrell, Alper Atamturk, Shankar Sastry, UCB; M. Cenk
Cavusoglu, Wyatt Newman, Michael Branicky, CASE Western; Allison Okamura, Stanford
University; Greg Chirikjian, Noah Cowan, Johns Hopkins; University; Dan Halperin, Tel Aviv
University; I-Chow Hsu, Jean Pouliot; UCSF; Frank van der Stappen, Utrecht University;
Postdocs within last 5 years (9 since 1991)
Brandie Nonnecke, Florian Pokorny, Lauren Miller, Sachin Patil, Brandie Nonnecke, Dmitry
Berenson, Jur van den Berg, Ron Alterovitz, Dezhen Song, Karl Bohringer, K. Gopal
Gopalakrishnan, Jijie Xu, Mike Tao Zhang.
PhD Students (Primary Advisor) within last 5 years (14 since 1991)
Ron Alterovitz, Jeremy Schiff, Ephrat Bitton, Timmy Siauw, Siamak Faridani, Ben Kehoe,
Sanjay Krishnan, Jeff Mahler, Michael Laskey, Zoe McCarthy, Allen Huang.
PhD Advisor: Matt Mason, CMU