David Culler

David Culler

Professor David Culler has been on the faculty at UC Berkeley since 1989. He is the chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, the chair of the computer science division, and the Howard Friesen Chair. He was the principal investigator of the DARPA Network Embedded Systems Technology project that created the open platform for wireless sensor networks based on TinyOS, and was the founding director of Intel Research, Berkeley. He has done seminal work on networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high-performance communication, including TinyOS, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), and Active Messages.

Work Experience

  • Professor, UC Berkeley, 1989-present
  • Faculty Director, i4Energy Center
  • Founding Director, Intel Research, Berkeley
  • Co-founder and CTO, Arch Rock Corporation

Education

  • PhD, MIT, 1989
  • MS, MIT, 1985
  • BA, UC Berkeley, 1980

Awards, Honors, and Significant Achievements

  • NSF Presidential Young Investigators Award, 1990
  • NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship, 1992
  • Served on technical advisory boards of companies including Inktomi, ExpertCity, and DoCoMo USA
  • Fellow, IEEE
  • Fellow, ACM
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Recipient, ACM's Sigmod Outstanding Achievement Award
  • Featured in Scientific American's "Top 50 Researchers"
  • Featured in Technology Review's "10 Technologies that Will Change the World"