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 2020-21
Diane B. Greene, Co-chair, M.S.’88 EECS
Former founding CEO, VMware; former CEO, Google Cloud; Board member, SAP and Stripe
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
College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Dado Banatao
Managing partner
Tallwood Venture Capital
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
Charles Giancarlo, M.S.’80 EECS
CEO, PureStorage
Michael Grimes, B.S.’87 EECS
Managing director
Global Technology Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
Ashraf Habibullah, M.S.’70 CEE
Founder, president & CEO
Computers & Structures, Inc.
Deirdre Ryan Hanford, M.S.’85 EECS
Chief security officer
Synopsys, Inc
Barbara Humpton
President & CEO
Siemens, USA
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
Chief Operating Officer
Altos Labs
Mark Liu, M.S.’81 Ph.D.’83 EECS
Chairman, TSMC
Jeffrey Massimilla
Vice President, OnStar Safety & Connectivity
General Motors
Sanjay Mehrotra, B.S.’78, M.S.’80 EECS
President & CEO
Micron Technology, Inc.
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
Executive Vice President
General Manager, Datacenter and AI Group
Intel Corp.
Clyde Rodriguez, B.S.‘95 EECS
Head of security, Facebook
Founder, Eleva Mobility
Eric Schmidt, M.S.’79, Ph.D.’82 EECS
Co-founder, Schmidt Futures; Executive chairman (former), Alphabet, Inc.; Executive chairman (former), Google, Inc.
Harry Shum
Advisor, MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia)
Thomas Siebel
Founder, chairman and CEO
C3 IoT
Darlene Solomon
CTO
Agilent Technologies
Roger Strauch
Chairman and co-founder
Roda Group
Sehat Sutardja, M.S.’85, Ph.D.’88 EECS
Co-founder
Marvell Semiconductor
Lip-Bu Tan
Chairman, Walden International
Founding Managing Partner, WRVI Capital
President and CEO, Cadence Design Systems
Kirsi K. Tikka, M.S.’84, Ph.D.’89 Naval Architecture
Independent non-executive director, Ardmore Shipping and Pacific Basin
Robert Tjian, B.S.’71 Biochemistry
Professor, UC Berkeley molecular & cell biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Steve Wozniak, B.S.’86 EECS
Co-founder
Apple Computer
Weijie Yun, M.S.’89, Ph.D.’92 EECS
Founder & Managing Partner
Tyche Partners