Intelligent learning systems; information retrieval and data mining; multiobjective and strategic product design; nonlinear optimization; probabilistic modeling; intelligent control and manufacturing; sensor validation, fusion and diagnostics; wireless sensor networks; multimedia and computer-aided design; design databases; design theory and methods; MEMS Synthesis and CAD; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; gender equity.

Product Development Program.

Lean Construction, Design Management, Performance and Productivity Improvement, and Quality Management.

Risk Assessment and Management, Reliability; Human and Organizational Factors; Quality Assurance & Quality Control; Design, Construction, Maintenance, Operations, Decommissioning, Ocean engineered systems (platforms, pipelines, ships).

Innovation and design management; New product development; Operations strategy; Environmental supply chain management.

Methodology and models for customer-facing activities for early stage startups.

Energy Policy and Climate Change; Electricity deregulation, market formation and competition; US and international airline competition; Oil and gasoline market pricing and competition; Efficiency and cost-cutting in firms.

Economics of information and communication.

Industrial Organization and Regulatory Economics; Energy Policy; Environmental Economics; Game Theoretic Optimization Models.

Copyright law, open source and free software, technology, and innovation policy.

Entrepreneurship

Innovation; Organizing, structuring, and managing internal and external research and development; Technology-based spin offs and corporate venture capital; Managing intellectual property; Comparative industry evolution in high-technology industries between the US, Japan, and Western Europe.

Social exchange, social psychology, social networks, and information exchange.

Integrated circuit processing; Electronic materials; VLSI reliability; High-bandgap semiconductors; Plasma ion beam processing.

Research focus is on economics-informed design of computer networks and distributed systems, including incentive mechanisms for peer-to-peer networks and next-generation internet architecture design.

Management of technology; Japanese organizations; Quality; Organizational learning, knowledge management; Organizational transformation.

Entrepreneurship and innovation.

Flexible manufacturing systems, signal processing and intelligent sensors for untended manufacturing, precision manufacturing processes, and environmentally conscious (green) manufacturing.

Venture capital and private equity transactions; Corporate venturing and innovation initiatives; Management practices in emerging enterprise; Technology management and licensing; Mergers and acquisition; Initial public offerings; Financing high-tech ventures.

Teaching and professional interests include the role of business and technology in economic development, renewable energy, agricultural development, marketing strategy, financial valuation, and entrepreneurship in developing regions.

Strategic Marketing in small business ventures; Wireless communications last mile for global success; Operational scale-up growth companies.

High-technology marketing; Information-intensive marketing; Consumer and managerial decision making; E-business; E-commerce; Marketing strategy; Knowledge management.

Document engineering and information policy.

Robotics. Automation Science and Engineering. Art. New Media. Networked Robots and Cameras. Algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing, Grasping, and Assembly. Collaborative Filtering and Decision Making. Automation for Public Safety and Security. Design of Parts and Devices for Automation.

Semiconductors (elemental and compound with emphasis on group III-nitrides), shallow and deep impurities, crystal growth, far-infared photoconductors and bolometers, and thin-film growth and characterization.

Focus: Collaboration, managing innovation, social networks, knowledge transfer, corporate transformation, and leadership.

New Venture Finance; Creativity and Entrepreneurship.

Jessica M. Hoover, J.D. has held management positions in biotechnology since 1994. Most recently, she was Vice President and Head of Corporate Business Development at Chiron Corporation, where she was also a member of both the Executive Committee and the Operating Committee.

Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems; Life-cycle assessment; Environmentally-conscious construction and infrastructure management.

Strategic Trends and Strategic Planning in the Construction Industry; Management Processes of Technical Organizations and their Projects; Project Control Systems; Risk Management-Based Requalification Procedures for Facilities; Change Management.

Technology company strategy, energy and sustainability technologies, high tech entrepreneurial enterprises, and technology marketing.

Analysis of integrated supply chain management models; Production scheduling; Modeling and analysis of production control and logistics; Systems, design and analysis of algorithms; Integration of production and distribution strategies.

Renewable energy and development; R&D policy; climate change; decarbonization and dramatic reductions in resource consumption; energy-health and energy-food linkages; energy and gender; national and multinational energy policy; rural development; risk assessment. Particular geographic interests in Africa, Central America/Mexico, E and SE Asia.

Colin Kessinger has a decade-long track-record as a supply chain innovator and counselor to senior procurement, manufacturing, and marketing executives. Over his career his work has focused on the application of quantitative techniques to risk management, supply chain flexibility, capacity planning, and strategic contract design. 

Tony is a recognized expert in global sustainability, environmentally preferred purchasing, plastics and chemical environmental issues and public policy. He is known for using his wide ranging knowledge of the whole supply chain from raw material extraction, to manufacturing, to final use and disposal, to distill complex messages into understandable language.

Information retrieval system design and evaluation.

Interested in investing in health care technologies specifically focusing on financing and creating biopharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Planning and Scheduling the Production of Semiconductors and Biopharmaceuticals; Economics of Speed; Cycle Time Management; Economic Analysis of Import Supply Chains; Railroad Operations and Capacity Analysis.

Informational and incentive aspects of the design of efficient organizations; The effect of information technology on the organization of firms.

Engineering Project Management.

Research interest: Operations and Information Technology Management Group.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT), business models, economics, competitive strategy, and regulation. Emerging technologies and applications. Entrepreneurship and venture capital. ICT for developing countries. Public and private investment in ICT.

My work focuses on 'Market Engineering', using price and incentive mechanisms for coordination of decentralized complex systems. Market engineering employs economic theory and operations research tools in the same way as mechanical or electrical engineering employ physics and mathematics.

Jon Pittman is a Lecturer at the Haas School of Business and  VP of Market Development at Autodesk, Inc.  He has over 25 years of experience in corporate strategy in software companies that serve designers from various disciplines such as architecture, engineering, and media.

Don Proctor heads up Cisco's Software Group which includes Cisco's major software businesses: IOS, Network Management, Unified Communications, Government Solutions and WebEx. He is also a member of the Cisco Development Council, the Cisco Enterprise Business Council, and Cisco Diversity Council.

American Business history; History of pollution regulation and corporate environmental management; Industrial ecology and new developments in corporate environmental management.

Managing Innovation and Technology; China’s Innovation and Intellectual Property System Reform; Chinese Enterprise Globalization and Strategy; The China-US Relationship.

E-mail:
jihong at mba.berkeley

Information technology, organization, and economic development.

Start-up and private company issues: financings, intellectual property matters, the structuring of executive compensation (including stock arrangements), strategic ventures, acquisitions and management buy-outs.

Role of product and process development, and intellectual property in the competitive performance of the business enterprise; Competitive performance of firms in the global marketplace; Innovation and the organization of industry; Technology and intellectual property policy, telecommunications policy, antitrust policy, and energy policy at the national and international levels; Technological change and strategic management.

Lean construction, supply-chain management, e-commerce, engineering and management of project-based production systems, materials management, construction processes, logistics and layout, information technology.

Science and Technology Studies (STS), knowledge communities, user needs, and digital libraries.

Regulation of business; Energy economics; Electricity industry restructuring.

Energy scavenging and storage; Smart materials; Design and manufacturing for micro-integration of 'intelligent objects'; Design of wireless sensor systems. Application areas include: Energy efficiency and demand response; First responder applications; Medical products. Previous research on Internet-based manufacturing & open-architecture control.

Best Practices in Corporate Venture Capital and Horizontalization of the Digital Consumer Industry.

Supply Chain Management (Production and Inventory Management and Distribution Systems Management); Service Systems Management; Production-Quality Interface issues; Marketing-Production Interface issues.

Entrepreneurship in emerging economies; Micro finance; Mentorship; and Clean tech.

Marketing Implications of Consumer Search and Uncertainty;, Implications of the Internet on traditional industries; Electronic Selling Formats; Distribution Channels; and Integration of Behavioral and Economic Approaches to Consumer Choice.