Claire Tomlin

Claire Tomlin is the James and Katherine Lau Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, where she is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Her research focuses on hybrid systems, control theory, and the integration of machine learning with control-theoretic methods, with applications including air traffic control, unmanned aerial vehicles, and biological systems. She is best known for her work on safety verification of hybrid systems, reachable set computation, and collision avoidance protocol design, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 and the IEEE Transportation Technologies Award in 2017. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC.