Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister

Anju Toor

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
PostDoc 2022

Anju completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 under the guidance of Prof. Albert Pisano. She also collaborated closely with Prof. Thomas Russell and Brett Helms at LBNL.

With Ana Arias and Kristofer Pister as her advisors, Anju is working on printed, miniaturized Li-ion batteries.

Howard Zhang

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
M.A. 2021

Howard completed undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Now, he is pursuing a M.S degree in EECS, doing research in machine learning and robotics.

Emmanuel Sin

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2021

Nathan Lambert

Alunmi
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2022

Nathan Lambert is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley working at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. He is a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, advised by Professor Kristofer Pister of the Berkeley Autonomous Microsystems Lab and Roberto Calandra of Meta AI Research. During his Ph.D., Nathan interned at Facebook AI Research and DeepMind working on model-based reinforcement learning for control. For his many efforts to improve community norms and advise younger students, he was awarded the UC Berkeley EECS Demetri...

BSAC's Best: Spring 2022 Oral Presentation Winners Announced

April 11, 2022

BSAC would like to thank all of the researchers who presented their research during BSAC's Spring 2022 Research Review, April 6 & 7.

BSAC Industrial Members voted for their favorite oral presentations and the results are in. Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Spring 2022 Best of BSAC honors, Nathan Lambert and Xintian Liu!

Watch the Spring 2022 Oral Presentations

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Alexander Alvara

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2024 (Anticipated)

Alexander Alvara is a 4th year PhD student in mechanical engineering who earned his 3 BS degrees from UC Irvine '17 concurrently in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and materials science and engineering. Alexander is interested in unique and extreme conditions applications and performance of MEMS devices as well as nanoscale materials engineering that investigates the interplay of materials with electromagnetism and light.

Transient Closed-Loop Heating for Localized MEMS Bonding

Daniel Teal
Kristofer S.J. Pister
2022

We achieve practical closed-loop control of a microfabricated resistive heating trace inmillisecond-scale transient regimes for MEMS local solder bonding. This is one or two orders ofmagnitude faster than previous implementations and may be competitive with laser assistedbonding. We also present simple theoretical models for analyzing these heaters, then identify andanalyze a possible failure mode due to local thermal fluctuations in more complex heater traces.Together, these represent significant progress toward making...

Lydia Lee

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2023 (Anticipated)

Lydia received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2017. She is currently pursuing a PhD in integrated circuits under the supervision of Prof. Kris Pister and is expected to graduate in 2023.