Engineering Advisory Board
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.
Contact
College of Engineering
Dean’s Office
320 McLaughlin Hall # 1700
Berkeley, CA 94720-1700
Engineering Advisory Board
Charles Giancarlo, Chair, M.S.’80 EECS
CEO, PureStorage
Tsu-Jae King Liu
Dean and Carlson Professor of Engineering
College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Mike Abbott
Executive vice president, Software
General Motors
Tara Bunch, B.S.’85 ME
Head of Global Operations
Airbnb
Purnendu Chatterjee, M.S.’72, Ph.D.’74 IEOR
Founder and chairman, The Chatterjee Group
Wenchi Chen
President and CEO
VIA Technologies, Inc.
T.Y. Chiu, Ph.D.’83 EECS
President, NSIG (National Silicon Industry Group)
CEO, Zing Semiconductor Corp.
Dipanjan Deb, B.S.’91 EECS
Co-founder and CEO
Francisco Partners
William S. Floyd, Jr., B.S.’56 IEOR
Vice president (retired)
Sierra Chemical Company
Coleman Fung, B.S.’87 IEOR
Board chair, Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
CEO and co-founder, Blue Goji
Diane B. Greene, M.S.’88 EECS
Former founding CEO, VMware; former CEO, Google Cloud; Board member, SAP and Stripe
Ashraf Habibullah, M.S.’70 CEE
Founder, president & CEO
Computers & Structures, Inc.
Deirdre Hanford, M.S.’85 EECS
CEO and Trustee
Natcast
Barbara Humpton
President & CEO
Siemens, USA
Paul E. Jacobs, B.S.’84, M.S.’86, Ph.D.’89 EECS
Founder, XCOM Labs; CEO, Globalstar
Kristin Johnsen, B.S.’88 IEOR
Board member, Tech Data and Access Information; Former CVP, Microsoft
James Lau, B.A.’81 CS & Applied Math
Co-founder
Network Appliance, Inc.
Ann Lee-Karlon, B.S.’89 BioE
CEO & president
EpiBiologics
Mark Liu, M.S.’81 Ph.D.’83 EECS
Chairman
J&M Copper Beech Ventures
Howard McKenzie, B.S.’88 ME
Chief engineer and executive vice president of Engineering, Test & Technology
The Boeing Company
Kim K. Polese, B.S.’84 Biophysics
Chairman
CrowdSmart
Rajiv Ramaswami, M.S.’88, Ph.D.’90 EECS
President & CEO
Nutanix, Inc.
In Sik Rhee, B.S.’93 EECS
General partner
Vertex Ventures
Sandra L. Rivera
CEO (former)
Altera, an Intel Company
Clyde Rodriguez, B.S.’95 EECS
Founder and principal, Ascent Logic
Harry Shum
Advisor, MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia)
Thomas Siebel
Founder, chairman and CEO
C3 AI
Roger Strauch
Chairman and co-founder
Roda Group
Lip-Bu Tan
Chairman, Walden International
Founding Managing Partner, Celesta Capital, and Walden Catalyst Ventures
Chief Executive Officer, Intel Corporation
Weijie Yun, M.S.’89, Ph.D.’92 EECS
Founder & managing partner
Tyche Partners