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.

Engineering Advisory Board 2019-20

Diane B. Greene, Co-chair, M.S.’88 EECS
Former founding CEO, VMware
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

Michael F. Ableson, M.S.’83 ME
Vice president, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
GM Global Technical Center

Dado Banatao
Managing partner
Tallwood Venture Capital

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
Vice chairman and non-executive director
SMIC

Lisa Davis, B.S.’85 ChemEng
Chair & CEO
Siemens AG

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

Ashraf Habibullah, M.S.’70 CEE
Founder, president & CEO
Computers & Structures, Inc.

Deirdre Ryan Hanford, M.S.’85 EECS
Chief security officer
Synopsys, Inc

E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S.’59 EECS
Partner emeritus
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

James Lau, B.A.’81 CS & Applied Math
Co-founder
Network Appliance, Inc.

Ann Lee-Karlon, B.S.’89 BioE
SVP, Portfolio Management & Operations
Genentech, Inc.

Mark Liu, M.S.’81 Ph.D.’83 EECS
President & co-CEO
TSMC

Jeffrey Massimilla
Vice President, Global Cybersecurity
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

In Sik Rhee, B.S.’93 EECS
General partner
Vertex Ventures

Eric Schmidt, M.S.’79, Ph.D.’82 EECS
Former CEO, Google, Inc.
Former board member, Alphabet

Harry Shum
EVP, AI and Research Group
Microsoft Corp.

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

Kirsi K. Tikka, M.S.’84, Ph.D.’89 Naval Architecture
EVP, Global Marine
ABS Europe Division

Robert Tjian, B.S.’71 Biochemistry
President
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Steve Wozniak, B.S.’86 EECS
Co-founder
Apple Computer