1984, dual degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics, University of Pennsylvania; MSc and 1990, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University. Artist. 1995, joined the UC Berkeley faculty. Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), with secondary appointments in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science (EECS), Art Practice, the School of Information, and in the Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF Medical School. With students, studies robotics, automation, art and social media. Director, Automation Sciences Research Lab. Co-Director, Center for Automation and Learning for Medical Robotics. Faculty Director, CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative. Has written over 200 peer-reviewed technical papers on algorithms for robotics, automation and social information filtering; inventions have been awarded eight US patents. Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). Co-Founder: African Robotics Network (AFRON); Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM); Moxie Institute. Co-Founder and CTO, Hybrid Wisdom Labs. Founding Director, UC Berkeley's Art, Technology and Culture Lecture Series. Art installations related to research and exhibited at venues such as the Whitney Biennial, Berkeley Art Museum, SF Contemporary Jewish Museum, Pompidou Centre, Buenos Aires Biennial and the ICC in Tokyo. Co-author of three award-winning Sundance documentary films. Co-Director, Emmy-Nominated short documentary "Why We Love Robots." Work represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. Awards: National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship (1994); Presidential Faculty Fellowship by President Clinton (1995); Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award (2000); elected IEEE Fellow (2005).