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Claire Tomlin is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also holds the James Katherine Lau Chair. Her research interests lie in the areas of hybrid systems, distributed decentralized optimization, and control theory, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles and air traffic control. Professor Tomlin has directed the Hybrid Systems Laboratory and has held joint positions in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1998 to 2007. She has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2006 and the IEEE Transportation Technologies Award in 2017 for her contributions to air transportation systems, particularly in collision avoidance protocol design and avionics safety verification. Tomlin has a diverse educational background, receiving her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 1998 and her M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London in 1993.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.