Roberto Horowitz

Roberto Horowitz is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the James Fife Endowed Chair in the College of Engineering. He received a B.S. degree with highest honors in 1978 and a Ph.D. degree in 1983 in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Horowitz teaches and conducts research in adaptive, learning, nonlinear, and optimal control with applications to Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS), computer disk file systems, robotics, mechatronics, and Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems (IVHS). He is a former Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a former co-director of the Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) research center at U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Horowitz is a member of IEEE and ASME.

Roberto Horowitz is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, with research interests in control, transportation, robotics, and mechatronics. His work focuses on adaptive control for robotic manipulators, automated highway systems, and traffic management using models like the cell transmission model. He has contributed to the development of control strategies for mechanical systems, micromachined gyroscopes, and multi-agent cooperative control. His research also addresses stability analysis, learning control, and optimization techniques for freeway ramp metering and traffic state estimation. Horowitz's publications highlight his expertise in designing robust control systems for complex dynamic environments.