Ken Goldberg is a renowned scholar and artist, currently serving as the Craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a highly accomplished researcher, with a strong focus on robotics, art, and social media. Goldberg's academic career is marked by his dual degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as his MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.
As a professor, Goldberg is affiliated with multiple departments at UC Berkeley, including Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Art Practice, the School of Information, and the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed technical papers on algorithms for robotics, automation, and social information filtering, and has been awarded eight US Patents for his inventions.
Goldberg is also a prolific editor and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He is a co-founder of several organizations, including the African Robotics Network, the Berkeley Center for New Media, Hybrid Wisdom Labs, the Moxie Institute, and the Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series at UC Berkeley.
As an artist, Goldberg's work has been exhibited at numerous prestigious venues, including the Whitney Biennial, the Berkeley Art Museum, the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Buenos Aires Biennial, and the ICC in Tokyo. He has also co-written three award-winning Sundance documentary films, "The Tribe", "Yelp", and "Connected: An Autoblogography of Love, Death, and Technology".
Goldberg has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the Presidential Faculty Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award, and election as an IEEE Fellow. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain, and their daughters.
Interestingly, Goldberg's Erdos-Bacon number is 6, connecting him to mathematician Paul Erdos and actor Kevin Bacon through a series of collaborations and relationships.
