Homayoon Kazerooni (born in Kazerun, Iran) is an Iranian-American roboticist and professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Kazerooni is the director of the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory and also the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Berkeley Bionics.
The Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory is also affectionately known as “KAZ LAB”.
Early in his career, Dr. Kazerooni was a recipient of the outstanding ASME Investigator Award, and has also won Discover Magazine’s Technological Innovation Award, and the McKnight-Land Grant Professorship. His research was recognized as the most innovative technology of the year in New York Times Magazine