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 2022-23

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
Executive Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSMC)

Howard McKenzie, B.S.’88 ME
Chief Engineer and Executive Vice President of Engineering, Test & Technology
The Boeing Company

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
Founder, Eleva Mobility

Harry Shum
Advisor, MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia)

Thomas Siebel
Founder, chairman and CEO
C3 AI

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

Kirsi K. Tikka, M.S.’84, Ph.D.’89 Naval Architecture
Independent non-executive director, Ardmore Shipping and Pacific Basin

Weijie Yun, M.S.’89, Ph.D.’92 EECS
Founder & Managing Partner
Tyche Partners