BSAC Director UC Berkeley

Current Project(s)

Kristofer S.J. Pister (M02) received the B.A. degree n applied physics from the University of California,San Diego, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 and 1992. From 1992 to 1997, he was an Assistant Professor of electrical engineering with the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. He coined the term Smart Dust and pioneered the development of ubiquitous networks of communicating sensors, a concept that has since become a virtual 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 mesh networking for sensors. In addition to wireless sensor networking, his research interests include MEMS-based micro-robotics and low power circuit design.