Co-Director

Jun-Chau Chien

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Jun-Chau Chien is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC). His research focuses on analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits, bioelectronics, and RF/mmWave high-speed ICs. He is also interested in biosensor designs, molecular engineering, and techniques to couple semiconductor technologies with advanced biotechnologies for new platform development.

Prior to joining BSAC, Professor Chien was an Assistant Professor at National...

David A. Horsley

Professor
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1998

David A. Horsley is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis, Vice Chair for Graduate Studies at the University of California, Davis, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.


Professor Horsley’s research interests include micro-fabricated sensors and actuators with applications in optical MEMS, communication, displays, and physical and biological sensors.


Prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis, Professor Horsley held research...

Ali Javey

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Ali Javey is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He is also a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he serves as the program leader of Electronic Materials (E-Mat). He is an associate editor of ACS Nano and the Bay Area PV Consortium (BAPVC).

Professor Javey’s research interests encompass the fields of chemistry, materials science and electrical engineering. His work focuses...

Dorian Liepmann

Professor
Bioengineering
Mechanical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Dorian Liepmann is a professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Professor Liepmann's research interests include BioMEMS, Microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics associated with valvular heart disease, and other cardiac and arterial flows. Prior to joining the faculty at the UC Berkeley, Professor Liepmann had ten years of industrial research experience at the Jet Propulsion Lab and the...

Liwei Lin

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1993

Liwei Lin is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the James Marshall Wells Academic Chair, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Professor Lin's research interests include design, modeling, and fabrication of micro/nano structures, sensors, actuators, and mechanical issues in micro/nano systems which includes heat transfer, solid/fluid mechanics, and dynamics.

Professor Lin is the recipient of the 1998 NSF CAREER Award for research in MEMS Packaging and the 1999 ASME Journal of Heat...

Roya Maboudian

Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Roya Maboudian is Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center at UC Berkeley. She has served as editor to the ACS Journal Sensors and to the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), as associate editor to IEEE/SPIE Journal on Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS (JM3), and as advisory board member to ACS Journal Applied Materials and Interfaces (AMI). She has also served on the technical program committees of several IEEE Solid-State...

Michel M. Maharbiz

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 2003

Michel M. Maharbiz is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Professor Maharbiz's research focuses on the extreme miniaturization of technology focused on building synthetic interfaces to cells and organisms. He is one of the inventors of "neural dust", an ultrasonic interface for vanishingly small implants in the body. His group is also known for developing the world’s first remotely radio-controlled...

Richard S. Muller

Professor Emeritus, Co-Founding Director BSAC
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Richard S. Muller is a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founding Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 where his research focus was on the physics of integrated circuit devices.


Together with Dr. T.I. Kamins of Hewlett-Packard Company, Professor Muller published Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits in 1977. In the late 1970s he began research in the area now known as MEMS...

Clark T.-C. Nguyen

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1994

Clark T.-C. Nguyen is the Faculty Executive Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center and the Conexant Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include integrated vibrating micromechanical signal processors and sensors, merged circuit/micromechanical technologies, timing, and frequency control, RF communication architectures, and integrated circuit design and technology. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2006, Professor Nguyen was a professor of...

Kristofer S.J. Pister

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1992

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...