Francesco Borrelli received the `Laurea’ degree in computer science engineering in 1998 from the University of Naples `Federico II’, Italy. In 2002 he received the PhD from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is… Read More »
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Department Partners
Erica Diffenderfer
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department Staff Advisor
Erica is originally from Savannah, Georgia. She attended Georgia Southern University, where she earned her BS in Mathematics and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. Before joining Berkeley, Erica taught secondary mathematics and also worked at the University of Florida in admissions and student affairs. Outside of work, she takes advantage of the nice… Read More »
William Orta
Mechanical Engineering Director of Student Services
William earned a BA in English from Florida International University in 2008. He later returned to school to pursue an MBA, which he earned from Nova Southeastern University in 2014. In 2016, William joined the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine as a Program Coordinator/Manager for various PhD programs and a newly approved Master’s.… Read More »
Michael Cassidy
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Faculty Lead
Dr. Michael Cassidy is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his MS and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on traffic and transportation operations, traffic… Read More »
Murat Arcak
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department Faculty Lead
Murat Arcak is a professor at UC Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department. He received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (1996) and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997 and 2000). His research is in dynamical systems and control… Read More »
Max Fratoni
Nuclear Engineering Department Faculty Lead
Massimiliano Fratoni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). He received a Laurea in Nuclear Engineering from Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), and a MSc and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Nuclear Engineering Department at UCB, he held… Read More »
Ilan Adler
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department Faculty Lead
Ilan Adler is a Chancellor’s professor in the department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at the University of California in Berkeley, which he joined in 1970, and served as a chair in 2003 (acting) and 2005-2008. Professor Adler holds a BA in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University in Israel (1966), an MS… Read More »
Dorian Liepmann
Bioengineering Department Faculty Lead
Research interests: BioMEMS, Drug Delivery Systems, Biofluid Dynamics, Mixing, Free Surface Flows/Spray, Advanced Heat Transfer Contact Bioengineering
Ariana Castro
Materials Science and Engineering Department Staff Advisor
I am the Graduate Advisor for the MSE department. I have been on campus for 13 years and graduated from UC Berkeley. I enjoy working and learning from my graduate students. Contact MSE
Michael Sun
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department Staff Advisor
Hello there! I’ve been with the EECS department as their Masters Programs Advisor since October 2015, and have been on campus overall here at UC Berkeley for a little over 7 years. I speak English and conversational Mandarin Chinese, being a second-generation Asian American. So far I’ve traveled all over Asia, having been to China,… Read More »
