Ken Goldberg is an artist, inventor and UC Berkeley Professor. He is Chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department, with secondary appointments in EECS, art practice, the School of Information and radiation oncology at the UCSF School of Medicine. Goldberg is Director of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative and the UC Berkeley AUTOLAB where he and his students pursue research in geometric algorithms and machine learning for robotics and automation in surgery, manufacturing and other applications. He developed the first provably complete algorithms for part feeding and part fixturing and the first robot on the internet. Despite agonizingly slow progress, Goldberg persists in trying to make robots less clumsy. He has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and eight U.S. patents. He co-founded and served as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. His artwork has appeared in 70 exhibits including the Whitney Biennial, and films he has co-written have been selected for Sundance and nominated for an Emmy Award. Goldberg was awarded the NSF PECASE (Presidential Faculty Fellowship) from President Bill Clinton in 1995, elected IEEE Fellow in 2005 and selected by the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society for the George Saridis Leadership Award in 2016. He lives in the Bay Area and is madly in love with his wife, filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain, and their two daughters.