Engineering Advisory Board
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The Berkeley Engineering Advisory Board is composed of successful alumni, tech pioneers, industry leaders and creative visionaries. The board advances our academic and research excellence by:
- strengthening relationships with our partners in academia, industry and government;
- shaping new research agendas;
- envisioning new educational initiatives;
- developing fellowships, endowed chairs and other forms of student and faculty support; and
- creating sustainable funding models, among other efforts.
Engineering Advisory Board 2019-20
Diane B. Greene, Co-chair, M.S.’88 EECS
Former founding CEO, VMware
Paul E. Jacobs, Co-chair, B.S.’84, M.S.’86, Ph.D.’89 EECS
Founder, chairman & CEO, XCOM
Tsu-Jae King Liu
Dean and Carlson Professor of Engineering
Michael F. Ableson, M.S.’83 ME
Vice president, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
Dado Banatao
Managing partner
Tara Bunch, B.S.’85 ME
Head of Global Operations
Purnendu Chatterjee, M.S.’72, Ph.D.’74 IEOR
Founder and chairman
Wenchi Chen
President and CEO
T.Y. Chiu, Ph.D.’83 EECS
Vice chairman and non-executive director
Dipanjan Deb, B.S.’91 EECS
Co-founder and CEO
William S. Floyd, Jr., B.S.’56 IEOR
Vice president (retired)
Coleman Fung, B.S.’87 IEOR
Board chair, Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
Charles Giancarlo, M.S.’80 EECS
CEO, PureStorage
Michael Grimes, B.S.’87 EECS
Managing director
Ashraf Habibullah, M.S.’70 CEE
Founder, president & CEO
Deirdre Ryan Hanford, M.S.’85 EECS
Chief security officer
Barbara Humpton
President & CEO
Kristin Johnsen, B.S.'88 IEOR
Corporate VP
E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S.’59 EECS
Partner emeritus
James Lau, B.A.’81 CS & Applied Math
Co-founder
Ann Lee-Karlon, B.S.’89 BioE
SVP, Portfolio Management & Operations
Mark Liu, M.S.’81 Ph.D.’83 EECS
President & co-CEO
Jeffrey Massimilla
Vice President, Global Cybersecurity
Sanjay Mehrotra, B.S.’78, M.S.’80 EECS
President & CEO
Kim K. Polese, B.S.’84 Biophysics
Chairman
In Sik Rhee, B.S.’93 EECS
General partner
Sandra L. Rivera
EVP & Chief People Officer
Clyde Rodriguez, B.S.‘95 EECS
CTO, Cloud & Advanced Technology
Eric Schmidt, M.S.’79, Ph.D.’82 EECS
Former CEO, Google, Inc.
Harry Shum
Advisor, MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia)
Thomas Siebel
Founder, chairman and CEO
Darlene Solomon
CTO
Roger Strauch
Chairman and co-founder
Sehat Sutardja, M.S.’85, Ph.D.’88 EECS
Co-founder
Lip-Bu Tan
Chairman, Walden International
Kirsi K. Tikka, M.S.’84, Ph.D.’89 Naval Architecture
EVP, Global Marine (retired)
Robert Tjian, B.S.’71 Biochemistry
President
Steve Wozniak, B.S.’86 EECS
Co-founder
Weijie Yun, M.S.’89, Ph.D.’92 EECS
Founder & Managing Partner