David E. Culler

Inventor of the TinyOS operating system, Culler is a computer scientist who has served as Chair of Computer Science and Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He founded Arch Rock, a company that makes wireless networked sensors.

Culler received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1980, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and 1989 respectively. He joined the EECS faculty in 1989 and has served as the founding Director of Intel Research, UC Berkeley, as well as Associate Chair of the EECS department.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an ACM Fellow. Culler was selected among Scientific American's Top 50 Researchers and featured in Technology Review's 10 Technologies that Will Change the World. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award and the Presidential Faculty Fellowship.

His research addresses networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication. This work includes TinyOS, Berkeley Motes, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), Internet services, Active Messages, Split-C, and the Threaded Abstract Machine (TAM).

Culler has been a co-author of several publications, including "Wireless Embedded Systems and Networking — Labs Based on the AIIT Lecture," with J. Jeong, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2008-14, Feb. 2008.