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Dor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We present an innovative educational design for basic arithmetic that responds to students’ documented difficulties with adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. The design utilizes MOVES, a technological architecture that combines floor- and screen-projected interactive interfaces. Students enact arithmetic operations, e.g., “3 - (-2)” by walking along a projected...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Description: Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). Our first target market is the HazMat and CBRNE (Chemical, biological...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). This semester we will focus on smart sensor robots for early detection...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Project #1. theDesignExchange.org: (1) theDesignExchange: We are in the process of designing and developing the DesignExchange, an interactive web portal for the design and design strategy community. The DesignExchange aims to meet three needs: consolidate and organize the many design and design research methods used, develop a community of practitioners...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a crucial driver of much of the recent progress in vision and language modeling. In the SSL paradigm, a model is pre-trained through a pretext task that only involves unlabeled data—the pre-trained representation is then fine-tuned on downstream tasks of interest...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In Self-supervised learning (SSL), a model is pre-trained through a pretext task that only involves unlabeled data—the pre-trained representation is then fine-tuned on downstream tasks of interest where only a small number of labeled examples may be available. In this project, we will explore novel...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on large corpora of text have demonstrated incredible capabilities across with zero- or few-shot performance in new tasks that differ from their pre-training objectives. In this projects, we will study the zero- and few-shot performance of LLMs repurposed to issue predictions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Institutional constraints and concerns over patient privacy impedes sharing of clinical data among researchers. High-fidelity synthetic data that mimics the real data distribution without revealing real data for individual patients can help empower and democratize research applying machine learning models to clinical problems. In this project, we will use...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We are looking for motivated students who want to develop their experimental, theoretical, and computational analysis abilities. The goal of this research is to discover new theories that will be applied to ocean wave energy converter and off-shore structures. You will have the opportunity to design and conduct scientific...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Ships spend $45B/year extra fuel because of encountering ocean waves en route, which translates to 1% of the world’s total Green House Gas (GHG) emission. If waves that a ship will encounter can be predicted, then through a smart routing algorithm a significant (>20%) improvement in the performance...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We have a few experimental research projects in the area of fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, aerospace engineering, and ocean engineering. These are serious research projects that potentially can be done by undergraduate students. By serious it means that there is a potential for publication or presenting your results in national and...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Two positions available: 1) Design and fabrication, 2) Modeling and Controller Design Field Oriented Control (FOC) is an advanced commutation and current control technique that allows Brushless DC (BLDC) motors to run more efficiently, with a higher power factor, with smoother motion (less torque ripple), and with no compromise in...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LitBank an annotated dataset of fiction to support tasks in natural language processing and the computational humanities. While it currently exists for English, we'll be branching out to create similar resources for other language as well. The primary research will involve carrying out linguistic annotations (e.g., reading novels and marking...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Many computational studies on people in text focus on gender. We are interested in broadening the dimensions of identity labels analyzed in natural language processing and cultural analytics. In particular, we hope to carefully curate resources and datasets for investigating the representation of race in fiction, especially in literature used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
There are several research opportunities available for undergraduates for expanding BookNLP (https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp), a natural language processing pipeline for books and other long documents. We'll be focusing on developing BookNLP for Python, and expanding its capacity to the languages of Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and German. This work will...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrian A. Barsky - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project is investigating algorithmic vision correction for the user of a display based on his or her spectacles prescription in simple cases or based on measurements of the optical aberrations of his or her vision in more complex cases. Our approach is to compute an altered display that when...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesBrian A. Barsky - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project is concerned with assistive technology that enables users with fine motor control difficulties to navigate, select, point, and click without physically manipulating a mouse. The idea is to use a camera to capture the user’s hand movements. There are many individuals who do not have the ability to...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesGasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project models spoken language from raw audio using deep generative neural networks (GANs). We use audio, neural, and behavioral data in spoken language to better understand and interpret deep learning models...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS “This apprenticeship has been the highlight of my time at Berkeley. It has given me a chance to help patients in difficult medical situations, and as a pre-health undergraduate, this is important to me.” “It is a great opportunity to get clinical experience and work with like...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyCarl Boettiger - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Become familiar with the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools used in the group and learn how to apply these methods to answer questions in ecological research and conservation decision making. Emphasis on the use of deep reinforcement learning and best practices in data science software development...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental Issues Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCarl Boettiger - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Develop, test, and visualize methods for forecasting ecological variables such as carbon flux, beetle abundance, or indicators of aquatic ecosystem health...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental Issues Digital Humanities and Data ScienceWilliam Boos - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The North American monsoon is a band of intense rainfall that stretches more than 1,000 km along Mexico's west coast and into the southwestern US, delivering crucial water supply to the semi-arid regions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. This monsoon is a continental-scale atmospheric circulation that driven...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesWilliam Boos - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs
This project will use satellite data and a new network of hundreds of on-the-ground instrument stations to generate a risk dataset for farmers in equatorial Africa. Our research group studies the fluid dynamics of Earth's tropical atmosphere, focusing on the atmospheric waves and vortices that produce extreme rainfall...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesFrancesco Borrelli - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In this project, we aim to improve the energy performance of connected automated vehicles in real-world scenarios. The energy savings can be obtained by harnessing technologies such as (i) remote computations, (ii) forecasts, (iii) historical data, (iv) automation, and (v) coordination with other vehicles and infrastructure. We have the...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesFrancesco Borrelli - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves work on the perception, prediction, and control stacks of the 1/10th scale Berkeley Autonomous Race Car (BARC) platform. The goal is to perform multi-agent racing on an indoor track with onboard sensing and computation. Students can expect to learn about advanced modeling, planning, and control techniques...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
RNA-seq has been widely used in biological and medical research because of its capability to quantify transcriptome changes. Researchers usually use their impressions and experience to choose whether to analyze transcriptome changes in gene expression or alternative splicing levels. A more systematic way to determine whether to focus on...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Genome sequencing identifies a vast number of genetic variants. Predicting these variants’ molecular and clinical effects is one of the preeminent challenges in genetics. Accurate prediction of the impact of genetic variants improves our understanding of how genetic information yields molecular and cellular functions and is an essential step toward...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Proteins often fold into compact structural units, called domains. Protein domains are basic units of protein function and evolution. Delineating domain boundaries is a prerequisite for further analyses of protein structures. However, this process is largely a manual process and the accuracy of these computer programs is still not satisfactory...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The field of genome interpretation is essential for our understanding of human biology and the advancement of personalized medicine. However, the rapid accumulation of genomic data far exceeds our capacity for reliable interpretation. Consequently, the majority of variation discovered by next generation sequencing technologies is of unknown significance. These variants...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will evaluate the relationship between the responsiveness of politicians to individual requests for assistance and their future political performance. Specifically, we will merge previously collected experimental data on the response, or lack thereof, of politicians in India to requests for help accessing government services, with subsequent data on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the character of global clothing production and (re)use. At this stage of the project we will be collecting descriptive qualitative and quantitative data on (1) the political economy of clothing production and distribution, with an emphasis on fast fashion; (2) patterns of secondhand clothing trade, (3...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to understand the dynamics of the textiles industry in India, with special attention to the political economy of production. In this stage of the research, we will be focused on collecting background materials about the industry, including statistics on both small-and large-scale production, documentation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
It is an exciting time in cardiovascular research: the combination of 3D imaging, deep learning, numerical modeling and high-performance computing opens doors to novel diagnostic capabilities. Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of the heart. We produce imaging data using fluorescence and 4D ultrasound imaging...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
It is an exciting time in cardiovascular research: the combination of 3D imaging technology, deep learning, numerical modeling and high-performance computing opens doors to novel diagnostic capabilities. Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of the heart. We produce imaging data using fluorescence imaging and 4D...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
It is an exciting time in cardiovascular research: the combination of 3D imaging technology, deep learning, numerical modeling and high-performance computing opens doors to novel diagnostic capabilities. Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of the heart. We produce imaging data using fluorescence imaging, catheter-based...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to hack an Illumina HiSeqX to create an open-source sequencing platform for spatial analysis of single cells (RNA-seq, DNA-seq, etc on tissue). The HiSeqX contains advanced fluidics and optics made for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). A community of hackers is working to repurpose these...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
You will assist a PhD student mentor in developing a technology to isolate cells based on DNA markers of HIV. This technique builds off of Clark et al.’s 2023 publication “HIV silencing and cell survival signatures in infected T cell reservoirs.” This project will involve microfluidics, flow cytometry, and...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We recently developed a molecular method that categorizes the cellular connections and transcriptional profiles of glial cells in the mouse brain. The data from this technique can be represented as a highly connected network. The goal of this project is to discover ligand-receptor interactions that promote inflammation in the...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We recently developed a molecular method that categorizes the cellular connections and transcriptional profiles of glial cells in the mouse brain. The data from this technique can be represented as a highly connected network. The goal of this project is to discover ligand-receptor interactions that promote inflammation in the...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The electrical conductance of 2D materials strongly depends on the presence of atomic defects and so understanding how defects scatter electrons is crucial for engineering the properties of 2D devices. Up to now, most studies of the influence of defects on device behavior have focused solely on transport measurements where...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Moiré materials are a class of materials prepared by twisting two atomic materials on top of each other. These classes of materials have become a preferred platform for studying correlated phases due to their tunability of correlation through the moiré period. For example, non-conventional superconductivity, correlated insulating states, quantum...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Air sensitive transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is a class of material hosting interesting quantum phenomena, such as quantum spin liquid, Mott insulator, quantum spin hall insulator etc. To reach different quantum phases of materials, one important tuning parameter is the carrier concentrations inside the material which can be controlled by...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesErnesto Dal Bó - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The conventional wisdom on the source of economic growth emphasizes inclusive institutions: constraints on state elites, which allow open access to political and economic power. Yet, in many contexts where economic growth has emerged, we see the partnership of powerful, coercive (often nondemocratic) states and private enterprise: from Industrial Revolution...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesErnesto Dal Bó - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Who gets patronage jobs in the public sector? Do patronage employees reciprocate by mobilizing votes for their patrons? We study these questions in the context of the archetypical patronage organization in US history: New York City’s Tammany Hall. We are digitizing and linking newly collected archival records on the organization’s...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesEmma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
OSKI Tech is a program that introduces new technology to a range of students. It is designed to work as a portable technology instruction lab, with a focus on expanding participation in technology for students in media studies, new media, arts and social sciences. The core of OSKI Tech is...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMassimiliano Fratoni - Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Pebble bed reactors (PBRs) use small spherical fuel elements that are piled in a cylindric core to achieve critical mass and energy production. The pebbles are circulated in and out of the core until the inner fuel is exhausted and at that point they are replaced with new pebbles. Such...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceLiz Galvez - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
American desert cities designed and built at the turn of the century, in collaboration with the advent of air-conditioning technologies, have been able to house millions of Americans by relying primarily on fossil-fuels to supply relief from extreme hot weather. The Phoenix Metro Area, or The Valley of...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLiz Galvez - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
To address the phenomenon of extreme weather conditions in relationship with the increase in energy instability, I have tested a series of experimental ideas for managing interior environments through pavilions, installations, exhibitions and essays. These tests put forth architectures that engage environmental management through design tactics and with reduced reliance...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Project 1: Hard and Soft Entrepreneurship Skills for youth in Uganda, Two RCTs *** We study the medium and long term impacts (4y and 9y) of two exciting youth entrepreneurship programs. and innovative youth skill-development and entrepreneurship interventions (Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development, SEED, and the Educate! Experience) were implemented...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies