• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Departments
    • Bioengineering
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
    • Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
    • Materials Science and Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Nuclear Engineering
    • Aerospace program
    • Engineering Science program
  • News
    • Berkeley Engineer magazine
    • Social media
    • News videos
    • News digest (email)
    • Press kit
  • Events
    • Events calendar
    • Commencement
    • Homecoming
    • Cal Day
    • Space reservations
    • View from the Top
    • Kuh Lecture Series
    • Minner Lecture
  • College directory
  • For staff & faculty
Berkeley Engineering

Educating leaders. Creating knowledge. Serving society.

  • About
    • Facts & figures
    • Rankings
    • Mission & values
    • Equity & inclusion
    • Voices of Berkeley Engineering
    • Leadership team
    • Milestones
    • Buildings & facilities
    • Maps
  • Admissions
    • Undergraduate admissions
    • Graduate admissions
    • New students
    • Visit
    • Maps
    • Admissions events
    • K-12 outreach
  • Academics
    • Undergraduate programs
    • Majors & minors
    • Undergraduate Guide
    • Graduate programs
    • Graduate Guide
    • Innovation & entrepreneurship
    • Kresge Engineering Library
    • International programs
    • Executive education
  • Students
    • New students
    • Advising & counseling
    • ESS programs
    • CAEE academic support
    • Student life
    • Wellness & inclusion
    • Undergraduate Guide
    • > Degree requirements
    • > Policies & procedures
    • Forms & petitions
    • Resources
  • Research & faculty
    • Centers & institutes
    • Undergrad research
    • Faculty
    • Sustainability and resiliency
  • Connect
    • Alumni
    • Industry
    • Give
    • Stay in touch
  • Facts & figures
  • Rankings
  • Mission & values
  • Equity & inclusion
    • Students
    • Graduate students
    • Faculty
    • K-12 outreach
  • Voices of Berkeley Engineering
  • Leadership team
    • Meet Dean Liu
    • Engineering Advisory Board
  • Milestones
  • Buildings & facilities
    • Space reservations
    • 2020 Facilities Master Plan
    • Building emergency information
  • Maps
Home > About > Leadership team > Engineering Advisory Board

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

(510) 642-5771
bef@berkeley.edu

Engineering Advisory Board

Charles Giancarlo

Charles Giancarlo, Chair, M.S.’80 EECS

CEO, PureStorage

Tsu-Jae King Liu

Tsu-Jae King Liu

Dean and Carlson Professor of Engineering
College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Mike Abbott

Mike Abbott

Executive vice president, Software
General Motors

Tara Bunch

Tara Bunch, B.S.’85 ME

Head of Global Operations
Airbnb

Purnendu Chatterjee

Purnendu Chatterjee, M.S.’72, Ph.D.’74 IEOR

Founder and chairman, The Chatterjee Group

Wenchi Chen

Wenchi Chen

President and CEO
VIA Technologies, Inc.

T.Y. Chiu

T.Y. Chiu, Ph.D.’83 EECS

President, NSIG (National Silicon Industry Group)
CEO, Zing Semiconductor Corp.

Dipanjan Deb

Dipanjan Deb, B.S.’91 EECS

Co-founder and CEO
Francisco Partners

William S. Floyd, Jr.

William S. Floyd, Jr., B.S.’56 IEOR

Vice president (retired)
Sierra Chemical Company

Coleman Fung

Coleman Fung, B.S.’87 IEOR

Board chair, Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
CEO and co-founder, Blue Goji

Diane B. Greene

Diane B. Greene, M.S.’88 EECS

Former founding CEO, VMware; former CEO, Google Cloud; Board member, SAP and Stripe

Ashraf Habibullah

Ashraf Habibullah, M.S.’70 CEE

Founder, president & CEO
Computers & Structures, Inc.

Deirdre Hanford

Deirdre Hanford, M.S.’85 EECS

CEO and Trustee
Natcast

Barbara Humpton

Barbara Humpton

President & CEO
Siemens, USA

Paul E. Jacobs

Paul E. Jacobs, B.S.’84, M.S.’86, Ph.D.’89 EECS

Founder, XCOM Labs; CEO, Globalstar

Kristin Johnsen

Kristin Johnsen, B.S.’88 IEOR

Board member, Tech Data and Access Information; Former CVP, Microsoft

James Lau

James Lau, B.A.’81 CS & Applied Math

Co-founder
Network Appliance, Inc.

Ann Lee-Karlon

Ann Lee-Karlon, B.S.’89 BioE

CEO & president
EpiBiologics

Mark Liu

Mark Liu, M.S.’81 Ph.D.’83 EECS

Chairman
J&M Copper Beech Ventures

Howard McKenzie

Howard McKenzie, B.S.’88 ME

Chief engineer and executive vice president of Engineering, Test & Technology
The Boeing Company

Kim K. Polese

Kim K. Polese, B.S.’84 Biophysics

Chairman
CrowdSmart

Rajiv Ramaswami

Rajiv Ramaswami, M.S.’88, Ph.D.’90 EECS

President & CEO
Nutanix, Inc.

In Sik Rhee

In Sik Rhee, B.S.’93 EECS

General partner
Vertex Ventures

Sandra Rivera

Sandra L. Rivera

CEO (former)
Altera, an Intel Company

Clyde Rodriguez

Clyde Rodriguez, B.S.’95 EECS

Founder and principal, Ascent Logic

Harry Shum

Harry Shum

Advisor, MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia)

Thomas Siebel

Thomas Siebel

Founder, chairman and CEO
C3 AI

Roger Strauch

Roger Strauch

Chairman and co-founder
Roda Group

Lib-Bu Tan

Lip-Bu Tan

Chairman, Walden International
Founding Managing Partner, Celesta Capital, and Walden Catalyst Ventures
Chief Executive Officer, Intel Corporation

Weijie Yun

Weijie Yun, M.S.’89, Ph.D.’92 EECS

Founder & managing partner
Tyche Partners

  • Contact
  • Give
  • Privacy
  • UC Berkeley
  • Accessibility
  • Nondiscrimination
  • instagram
  • X logo
  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • bluesky
© 2025 UC Regents