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Home > Research & faculty > Faculty > Endowed chairs and distinguished professorships

Endowed chairs and distinguished professorships

American Bureau of Shipping Chair in Ocean EngineeringReza Alam (ME)
A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical EngineeringCostas Grigoropoulos (ME)
Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and PracticeAmy Pickering (CEE)
Blum Chancellor’s Chair in Development EngineeringKara Nelson (CEE)
Robert E. and Beverly A. Brooks ProfessorshipGopala Anumanchipalli (EECS)
Howard P. Brown Chair in Mechanical EngineeringChris Dames (ME)
Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical EngineeringAlberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (EECS)
Cadence Distinguished Professorship in the College of EngineeringKameshwar Poolla (ME)
Cadence Founders Chair
Sanjit Seshia (EECS)
Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Chair for Civil or Mineral EngineeringNicholas Sitar (CEE/MSE)
Roy W. Carlson Chair in the College of EngineeringTsu-Jae King Liu (EECS)
Roy W. Carlson Distinguished ProfessorshipIris Tommelein (CEE)
S.K. & Angela Chan Distinguished Chair in EnergyPeidong Yang (Chemistry/MSE)
Morris Chang Distinguished Chair in the Management of Technology InnovationCandace Yano (Business/IEOR)
Ping and Amy Chao Family Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesAlp Sipahigil (EECS)
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Energy TechnologiesRamesh Ramamoorthy (MSE)
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological SystemsDaniel Fletcher (BioE)
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesMichael Jordan (EECS)
Arthur J. Chick Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesJitendra Malik (EECS)
H.T. and Jessie Chua Distinguished ProfessorshipRobert O. Ritchie (MSE)
Class of 1941 WWII Memorial ChairPhillip Messersmith (BioE/MSE)
Ray W. & Shirley Clough Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering
Matthew DeJong (CEE)
Conexant Systems Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesClark Nguyen (EECS)
Montford G. Cook Chair in the College of EngineeringSteven Conolly (BioE)
Don M. Cunningham Endowed ProfessorshipHannah Stuart (ME)
Dr. Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished ProfessorshipJames Demmel (EECS)
Charles A. Desoer Chair in EngineeringLaura Waller (EECS)
The Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering ExcellenceJonathan Bray (CEE)
Jan Fandrianto Professorship in EngineeringKevin Healy (BioE/MSE)
FANUC Chair in Mechanical SystemsFrancesco Borrelli (ME)
The James Fife ChairRoberto Horowitz (ME)
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in EngineeringKen Goldberg (IEOR)
William S. Floyd and Jean McCallum Floyd Chair in EngineeringPer Peterson (NE)
Howard Friesen ChairAlexei Efros (EECS)
Coleman Fung Chair in Financial ModelingXin Guo (IEOR)
Coleman Fung Chair in Engineering LeadershipAnthony Joseph (EECS)
Gilbert Henry Gates Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Kannan Ramchandran (EECS)
Jim Gray Chair in EngineeringPieter Abbeel (EECS)
Paul R. Gray Alumni Presidential Chair in Engineering ExcellenceBjörn Hartmann (EECS)
Paul R. Gray Distinguished ChairOliver O’Reilly (EECS)
Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor’s Chair
Saikat Chaudhuri (Haas/ME)
Andrew S. Grove Distinguished ProfessorshipAna Claudia Arias (EECS)
Timothy and Karen Guertin Chair in Bioengineering
Moriel Vandsburger (BioE)
The Will C. Hall Family Chair in EngineeringTarek I. Zohdi (ME)
C. Lester Hogan Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesShafi Goldwasser (EECS)
Robert Horonjeff Chair in Civil EngineeringMichael Cassidy (CEE)
Hubbard Howe, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biochemical EngineeringDavid Schaffer (BioE/Chemistry)
Chenming Hu Endowed Professorship in Electrical EngineeringBoubacar Kante (EECS)
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical EngineeringMichael Frenklach (ME)
Earl J. Isaac Chair in the Science and Analysis of Decision MakingAlper Atamtürk (IEOR)
Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professorship in EngineeringJohn Canny (EECS)
The Carl W. Johnson Chair in Civil EngineeringRobert Harley (CEE)
Horace, Dorothy & Katherine Johnson Chair in EngineeringSanjay Govindjee (CEE)
Gary and Sherron Kalbach Chair in Business AdministrationCandace Yano (IEOR/Haas)
Ernest S. Kuh Chair in EngineeringPeter Hosemann (NE)
Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor ProcessingAli Javey (EECS)
James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Chair in SustainabilityDan Kammen (ERG/GSPP/NE)
James and Katherine Lau Chair in EngineeringClaire Tomlin (EECS)
Liao-Cho Innovation ChairAlex Bayen (CEE)
T. Y. and Margaret Lin Chair in EngineeringJoan Walker (CEE)
Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished ProfessorshipAaron Streets (BioE)
MacArthur Foundation ChairAllen Goldstein (CEE)
MacArthur Foundation Chair
Amy Herr (BioE)
John William MacKay Jr. Electrical Engineering
Professorship
Venkatachalam Anantharam (EECS)
P. Malozemoff Chair in Mineral EngineeringDavid Sedlak (CEE)
Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Chair in Mechanical EngineeringLydia Sohn (ME)
Robert James McGann Chair
Joan Walker (CEE)
Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral EngineeringKenichi Soga (CEE)
Henry and Joyce Miedema ChairMark Stacey (CEE)
National Semiconductor Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesBorivoje Nikolic (EECS)
Cheryl and John Neerhout Jr. Distinguished Professorship in EngineeringMasayoshi Tomizuka (ME)
A. Richard Newton Chair in EngineeringVan Carey (ME)
Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial ProfessorshipAdam Arkin (BioE)
Byron and Elvira Nishkian Chair in Structural EngineeringPanayiotis Papadopoulos (ME)
Nortel Networks Distinguished Professorship in EECSMing-Chiang Wu (EECS)
Kikuo Ogawa and Kaoru Ogawa ChairAlistair Sinclair (EECS)
Arthur C. and Phyllis G. Oppenheimer Chair in Advanced Materials AnalysisMark Asta (MSE)
Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship in Electrical EngineeringAli Niknejad (EECS)
Lawrence E. Peirano Chair in Civil and Environmental EngineeringArpad Horvath (CEE)
Carl J. Penther Chair in Engineering
David Wagner (EECS)
Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesKatherine Yelick (EECS)
Philomathia Chair in Alternative EnergyJay Keasling (BioE/ChemE)
Qualcomm Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesAnant Sahai (EECS)
The Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Safe Water and SanitationAshok Gadgil (CEE)
Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ResearchGerbrand Ceder (MSE)
Shankar Sastry Chair for Leadership and Innovation
Mark Asta (MSE)
S. Shankar Sastry Professorship in Emerging TechnologiesRikky Muller (EECS)
Fred and Claire Sauer Chancellor’s Chair in Environmental EngineeringFotini Katopodes Chow (CEE)
Fred and Claire Sauer Chair in Environmental EngineeringLisa Alvarez-Cohen (CEE)
Clare and Hsieh-Wen Shen Endowed Distinguished ProfessorshipScott Moura (CEE)
The Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer ScienceS. Shankar Sastry (EECS/ME/BioE)
Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished ChairRobert J. Birgeneau (MSE)
Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in EngineeringStuart J. Russell (EECS)
Russell Severance Springer Professorship of Mechanical EngineeringVisiting faculty appointments
Roger A. Strauch Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesUmesh Vazirani (EECS)
Taisei Chair in Civil EngineeringKhalid Mosalam (CEE)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Distinguished ProfessorshipSayeef Salahuddin (EECS)
Lawrence Talbot Chair in EngineeringLisa Pruitt (ME)
Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professorship in EngineeringKristin Persson (MSE)
Tien-Modak Chancellor’s Chair in EngineeringPhilip Marcus (ME)
Ted Van Duzer Endowed Professorship
Mary Scott (MSE)
Harvey E. Wagner Presidential Chair in Artificial IntelligenceSergey Levine (EECS)
James Marshall Wells Academic Chair in Mechanical EngineeringLiwei Lin (ME)
John R. Whinnery Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesKristofer Pister (EECS)
Ed & Diane Wilson Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering
Tracy Becker (CEE)
Ronald W. Wolff Chancellor’s Chair in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Rhonda Righter (IEOR)
Wood-Calvert Chair in EngineeringBaoxia Mi (CEE)
Xenel Distinguished ProfessorshipMax Fratoni (NE)
Tony Xu & Patti Bao Chancellor’s Chair in Computer Science
Ion Stoica (EECS)
Robert M. Saunders Chair Murat Arcak (EE)
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