Ken Goldberg

Ken Goldberg is a computer scientist and artist born in 1961 in Ibadan, Nigeria, and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He holds the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley, with appointments in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Art Practice, and the School of Information. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UCSF. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in February 2026.