Kristofer S.J. Pister

Job title: 
Professor
Affiliation: 
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1992
Bio/CV: 

Kristofer S.J. Pister is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Professor Pister's research interests include Autonomous microsystems: silicon micro-robots and wireless sensor networks. MEMS, low power circuits, energy scavenging.

Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Professor Pister was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1992 to 1997. He created the term "Smart Dust" and pioneered the development of ubiquitous networks of communication sensors, a concept that has since become a vital sector of technology R&D. During 2003 and 2004 he was on industrial leave as CEO and then CTO of Dust Networks, a company that he co-founded to commercialize low-power wireless sensor networks.

Professor Pister received his B.A. degree in Applied Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1982 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1992, respectively.

Research interests: 

Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR), Micro-robotics
Integrated Circuits (INC), Low-power circuits

Berkeley Autonomous Microsystems Lab

Contact

(510) 643-9268
512 Cory Hall