Alice M. Agogino – BEST Lab UC Berkeley

Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley. She is affiliated faculty with the Energy Resources Group, Women and Gender Studies, Development Engineering, and Studies in Science, Engineering and Mathematics Education (SESAME), UC Berkeley. Agogino was the Former Education Director and Founding Chair of Development Engineering Graduate Group, Blum Center for Developing Economies.

Agogino directs the BEST Lab : Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technologies | Berkeley Expert Systems Technology | Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities. She has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and has served on a number of committees of the National Academies. She conducts research in robotics, sensor fusion, artificial intelligence, machine learning and product design. Agogino has won numerous teaching, research, outreach and mentoring awards, recently the Forbes 50 Over 50 (2023), Athena Award for Academic Leadership (2020), the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (2018) and ASME Design Theory and Methodology Award (2017). She has supervised 65 PhD dissertations and 197 MS theses/reports.

Alice M. Agogino is also co-founder and CEO of Squishy Robotics, Inc., a start-up that provides life-saving, cost-saving information in real time through its rapidly deployable sensor robots. Applications include disaster response, methane and wildfire monitoring, Industrial Internet of things (IIoT), and space exploration. Squishy Robotics won the 2022 East Bay Innovation Award in the Engineering & Design category, receiving a Certificate of Recognition from both the California State Assembly and from the California State Senate. Squishy Robotics was among the recipients of the inaugural “Good Robot” Industry Awards presented by the non-profit industry association, Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR). The SVR Industry Awards celebrate the robotics, automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will help the world solve global challenges. Squishy Robotics was also a finalist in the 2021 Extreme Tech challenge, which highlighted companies with innovations that address the greatest crises facing humanity and our planet.

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Update: 2023