Endowed chairs and distinguished professorships
American Bureau of Shipping Chair in Ocean Engineering | Reza Alam (ME) |
A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering | Costas Grigoropoulos (ME) |
Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice | Amy Pickering (CEE) |
Blum Chancellor’s Chair in Development Engineering | Kara Nelson (CEE) |
Robert E. and Beverly A. Brooks Professorship | Gopala Anumanchipalli (EECS) |
Howard P. Brown Chair in Mechanical Engineering | Chris Dames (ME) |
Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering | Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (EECS) |
Cadence Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering | Kameshwar Poolla (ME) |
Cadence Founders Chair | Sanjit Seshia (EECS) |
Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Chair for Civil or Mineral Engineering | Nicholas Sitar (CEE/MSE) |
Roy W. Carlson Chair in the College of Engineering | Tsu-Jae King Liu (EECS) |
Roy W. Carlson Distinguished Professorship | Iris Tommelein (CEE) |
S.K. & Angela Chan Distinguished Chair in Energy | Peidong Yang (Chemistry/MSE) |
Morris Chang Distinguished Chair in the Management of Technology Innovation | Candace Yano (Business/IEOR) |
Ping and Amy Chao Family Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Alp Sipahigil (EECS) |
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Energy Technologies | Ramesh Ramamoorthy (MSE) |
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems | Daniel Fletcher (BioE) |
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Michael Jordan (EECS) |
Arthur J. Chick Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Jitendra Malik (EECS) |
H.T. and Jessie Chua Distinguished Professorship | Robert O. Ritchie (MSE) |
Class of 1941 WWII Memorial Chair | Phillip Messersmith (BioE/MSE) |
Ray W. & Shirley Clough Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering | Matthew DeJong (CEE) |
Conexant Systems Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Clark Nguyen (EECS) |
Montford G. Cook Chair in the College of Engineering | Steven Conolly (BioE) |
Don M. Cunningham Endowed Professorship | Hannah Stuart (ME) |
Dr. Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professorship | James Demmel (EECS) |
Charles A. Desoer Chair in Engineering | Laura Waller (EECS) |
The Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence | Jonathan Bray (CEE) |
Jan Fandrianto Professorship in Engineering | Kevin Healy (BioE/MSE) |
FANUC Chair in Mechanical Systems | Francesco Borrelli (ME) |
The James Fife Chair | Roberto Horowitz (ME) |
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering | Ken Goldberg (IEOR) |
William S. Floyd and Jean McCallum Floyd Chair in Engineering | Per Peterson (NE) |
Howard Friesen Chair | Alexei Efros (EECS) |
Coleman Fung Chair in Financial Modeling | Xin Guo (IEOR) |
Coleman Fung Chair in Engineering Leadership | Anthony Joseph (EECS) |
Gilbert Henry Gates Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Kannan Ramchandran (EECS) |
Jim Gray Chair in Engineering | Pieter Abbeel (EECS) |
Paul R. Gray Alumni Presidential Chair in Engineering Excellence | Björn Hartmann (EECS) |
Paul R. Gray Distinguished Chair | Oliver O’Reilly (EECS) |
Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor’s Chair | Saikat Chaudhuri (Haas/ME) |
Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professorship | Ana Claudia Arias (EECS) |
Timothy and Karen Guertin Chair in Bioengineering | Moriel Vandsburger (BioE) |
The Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering | Tarek I. Zohdi (ME) |
C. Lester Hogan Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Shafi Goldwasser (EECS) |
Robert Horonjeff Chair in Civil Engineering | Michael Cassidy (CEE) |
Hubbard Howe, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biochemical Engineering | David Schaffer (BioE/Chemistry) |
Chenming Hu Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering | Boubacar Kante (EECS) |
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering | Michael Frenklach (ME) |
Earl J. Isaac Chair in the Science and Analysis of Decision Making | Alper Atamtürk (IEOR) |
Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professorship in Engineering | John Canny (EECS) |
The Carl W. Johnson Chair in Civil Engineering | Robert Harley (CEE) |
Horace, Dorothy & Katherine Johnson Chair in Engineering | Sanjay Govindjee (CEE) |
Gary and Sherron Kalbach Chair in Business Administration | Candace Yano (IEOR/Haas) |
Ernest S. Kuh Chair in Engineering | Peter Hosemann (NE) |
Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor Processing | Ali Javey (EECS) |
James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Chair in Sustainability | Dan Kammen (ERG/GSPP/NE) |
James and Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering | Claire Tomlin (EECS) |
Liao-Cho Innovation Chair | Alex Bayen (CEE) |
T. Y. and Margaret Lin Chair in Engineering | Joan Walker (CEE) |
Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professorship | Aaron Streets (BioE) |
MacArthur Foundation Chair | Allen Goldstein (CEE) |
MacArthur Foundation Chair | Amy Herr (BioE) |
John William MacKay Jr. Electrical Engineering Professorship | Venkatachalam Anantharam (EECS) |
P. Malozemoff Chair in Mineral Engineering | David Sedlak (CEE) |
Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Chair in Mechanical Engineering | Lydia Sohn (ME) |
Robert James McGann Chair | Joan Walker (CEE) |
Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering | Kenichi Soga (CEE) |
Henry and Joyce Miedema Chair | Mark Stacey (CEE) |
National Semiconductor Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Borivoje Nikolic (EECS) |
Cheryl and John Neerhout Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Engineering | Masayoshi Tomizuka (ME) |
A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering | Van Carey (ME) |
Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professorship | Adam Arkin (BioE) |
Byron and Elvira Nishkian Chair in Structural Engineering | Panayiotis Papadopoulos (ME) |
Nortel Networks Distinguished Professorship in EECS | Ming-Chiang Wu (EECS) |
Kikuo Ogawa and Kaoru Ogawa Chair | Alistair Sinclair (EECS) |
Arthur C. and Phyllis G. Oppenheimer Chair in Advanced Materials Analysis | Mark Asta (MSE) |
Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering | Ali Niknejad (EECS) |
Lawrence E. Peirano Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering | Arpad Horvath (CEE) |
Carl J. Penther Chair in Engineering | David Wagner (EECS) |
Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Katherine Yelick (EECS) |
Philomathia Chair in Alternative Energy | Jay Keasling (BioE/ChemE) |
Qualcomm Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Avideh Zakhor (EECS) |
The Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Safe Water and Sanitation | Ashok Gadgil (CEE) |
Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research | Gerbrand Ceder (MSE) |
Shankar Sastry Chair for Leadership and Innovation | Mark Asta (MSE) |
S. Shankar Sastry Professorship in Emerging Technologies | Rikky Muller (EECS) |
Fred and Claire Sauer Chancellor’s Chair in Environmental Engineering | Fotini Katopodes Chow (CEE) |
Fred and Claire Sauer Chair in Environmental Engineering | Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (CEE) |
Clare and Hsieh-Wen Shen Endowed Distinguished Professorship | Scott Moura (CEE) |
The Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science | S. Shankar Sastry (EECS/ME/BioE) |
Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Chair | Robert J. Birgeneau (MSE) |
Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering | Stuart J. Russell (EECS) |
Russell Severance Springer Professorship of Mechanical Engineering | Visiting faculty appointments |
Roger A. Strauch Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Umesh Vazirani (EECS) |
Taisei Chair in Civil Engineering | Khalid Mosalam (CEE) |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Distinguished Professorship | Sayeef Salahuddin (EECS) |
Lawrence Talbot Chair in Engineering | Lisa Pruitt (ME) |
Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professorship in Engineering | Kristin Persson (MSE) |
Tien-Modak Chancellor’s Chair in Engineering | Philip Marcus (ME) |
Ted Van Duzer Endowed Professorship | Mary Scott (MSE) |
Harvey E. Wagner Presidential Chair in Artificial Intelligence | Sergey Levine (EECS) |
James Marshall Wells Academic Chair in Mechanical Engineering | Liwei Lin (ME) |
John R. Whinnery Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Kristofer Pister (EECS) |
Ed & Diane Wilson Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering | Tracy Becker (CEE) |
Ronald W. Wolff Chancellor’s Chair in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research | Rhonda Righter (IEOR) |
Wood-Calvert Chair in Engineering | Baoxia Mi (CEE) |
Xenel Distinguished Professorship | Max Fratoni (NE) |
Tony Xu & Patti Bao Chancellor’s Chair in Computer Science | Ion Stoica (EECS) |
Robert M. Saunders Chair | Murat Arcak (EE) |