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Home > Research & faculty > Faculty > Endowed chairs and distinguished professorships

Endowed chairs and distinguished professorships

A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Costas Grigoropoulos (ME)

A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering

Van Carey (ME)

Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Lydia Sohn (ME)

American Bureau of Shipping Chair in Ocean Engineering

Reza Alam (ME)

Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professorship

Ana Claudia Arias (EECS)

Arthur C. and Phyllis G. Oppenheimer Chair in Advanced Materials Analysis

Mark Asta (MSE)

Arthur J. Chick Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Jitendra Malik (EECS)

Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice

Amy Pickering (CEE)

Blum Chancellor’s Chair in Development Engineering

Kara Nelson (CEE)

Byron and Elvira Nishkian Chair in Structural Engineering

Panayiotis Papadopoulos (ME)

C. Lester Hogan Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Shafi Goldwasser (EECS)

Cadence Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering

Kameshwar Poolla (ME)

Cadence Founders Chair

Sanjit Seshia (EECS)

Carl J. Penther Chair in Engineering

David Wagner (EECS)

CDSS Chancellor’s Chair

Bin Yu (STAT/EECS)

Chang-Lin Tien Chair

Chris Dames (ME)

Charles A. Desoer Chair in Engineering

Laura Waller (EECS)

Chenming Hu Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering

Jessica Boles (EECS)

Cheryl and John Neerhout Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Engineering

Masayoshi Tomizuka (ME)

Clare and Hsieh-Wen Shen Endowed Distinguished Professorship

Maria Laura Delle Monache (CEE)

Class of 1941 WWII Memorial Chair

Phillip Messersmith (BioE/MSE)

Coleman Fung Chair in Engineering Leadership

Anthony Joseph (EECS)

Coleman Fung Chair in Financial Modeling

Xin Guo (IEOR)

Conexant Systems Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Clark Nguyen (EECS)

Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professorship in Engineering

Kristin Persson (MSE)

Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professorship

Adam Arkin (BioE)

Don M. Cunningham Endowed Professorship

Grace Gu (ME)

Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering

Kenichi Soga (CEE)

Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering

Ali Niknejad (EECS)

Dr. Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professorship

Ian Holmes (BioE)

E.H. and M.E. Pardee Chair

Sanjay Kumar (BIOE)

Earl J. Isaac Chair in the Science and Analysis of Decision Making

Alper Atamtürk (IEOR)

Ed & Diane Wilson Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering

Tracy Becker (CEE)

Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (EECS)

Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Chair for Civil or Mineral Engineering

Arpad Horvath (CEE)

Ernest S. Kuh Chair in Engineering

Peter Hosemann (NE)

FANUC Chair in Mechanical Systems

Francesco Borrelli (ME)

Fred and Claire Sauer Chair in Environmental Engineering

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (CEE)

Fred and Claire Sauer Chancellor’s Chair in Environmental Engineering

Fotini Katopodes Chow (CEE)

NEC Distinguished Professorship

Candace Yano (IEOR/Haas)

Giancarlo Family Chair

Michael (Miki) Lustig (EECS)

Gilbert Henry Gates Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Kannan Ramchandran (EECS)

Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor’s Chair

Grace O’ Connell (ME)

H.T. and Jessie Chua Distinguished Professorship

Robert O. Ritchie (MSE)

Harvey E. Wagner Presidential Chair in Artificial Intelligence

Sergey Levine (EECS)

Henry and Joyce Miedema Chair

Mark Stacey (CEE)

Horace, Dorothy & Katherine Johnson Chair in Engineering

Sanjay Govindjee (CEE)

Howard Friesen Chair in Engineering

Alexei Efros (EECS)

Howard P. Brown Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Hannah Stuart (ME)

Hubbard Howe, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biochemical Engineering

David Schaffer (BioE/Chemistry)

James and Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering

Claire Tomlin (EECS)

James Marshall Wells Academic Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Liwei Lin (ME)

Jan Fandrianto Professorship in Engineering

Kevin Healy (BioE/MSE)

Jeffrey Huber and Angel Vossough Chancellor’s Chair in Computational Biomedicine

Jennifer Listgarten (EECS)

Jim Gray Chair in Engineering

Pieter Abbeel (EECS)

John R. Whinnery Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Kristofer Pister (EECS)

John William MacKay Jr. Electrical Engineering
Professorship

Venkatachalam Anantharam (EECS)

Kikuo Ogawa and Kaoru Ogawa Chair

Alistair Sinclair (EECS)

Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor Processing

Ali Javey (EECS)

Lawrence E. Peirano Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Arpad Horvath (CEE)

Lawrence Talbot Chair in Engineering

Lisa Pruitt (ME)

Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professorship

Aaron Streets (BioE)

Liao-Cho Innovation Chair

Alex Bayen (CEE)

Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering

Stuart J. Russell (EECS)

Montford G. Cook Chair in the College of Engineering

Steven Conolly (BioE)

Morris Chang Distinguished Chair in the Management of Technology Innovation

Lee Fleming (Business/IEOR)

National Semiconductor Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Borivoje Nikolic (EECS)

Nortel Networks Distinguished Professorship in EECS

Ming-Chiang Wu (EECS)

P. Malozemoff Chair in Mineral Engineering

David Sedlak (CEE)

Paul R. Gray Alumni Presidential Chair in Engineering Excellence

Björn Hartmann (EECS)

Paul R. Gray Distinguished Chair

Oliver O’Reilly (ME)

Pehong Chen Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Anca Dragan (EECS)

Philomathia Chair in Alternative Energy

Jay Keasling (CBE/ BioE)

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)

Qualcomm Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Anant Sahai (EECS)

Ray W. & Shirley Clough Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering

Matthew DeJong (CEE)

Robert E. and Beverly A. Brooks Professorship

Gopala Anumanchipalli (EECS)

Robert Horonjeff Chair in Civil Engineering

Michael Cassidy (CEE)

Robert James McGann Chair

Joan Walker (CEE)

Robert M. Saunders Chair

Murat Arcak (EE)

Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Katherine Yelick (EECS)

Roger A. Strauch Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Umesh Vazirani (EECS)

Ronald W. Wolff Chancellor’s Chair in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Rhonda Righter (IEOR)

Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Koushil Sreenath (ME)

Roy W. Carlson Chair in the College of Engineering

Mark Asta (MSE)

Roy W. Carlson Distinguished Professorship

Iris Tommelein (CEE)

Russell Severance Springer Professorship of Mechanical Engineering

Visiting faculty appointments

S. Shankar Sastry Professorship in Emerging Technologies

Angjoo Kanazawa (EECS)

S.K. & Angela Chan Distinguished Chair in Energy

Peidong Yang (Chemistry/MSE)

Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research

Gerbrand Ceder (MSE)

Shankar Sastry Chair for Leadership and Innovation

Clark Nguyen (EECS)

T. Y. and Margaret Lin Chair in Engineering

Joan Walker (CEE)

Taisei Chair in Civil Engineering

Khalid Mosalam (CEE)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Distinguished Professorship

Sayeef Salahuddin (EECS)

Ted Van Duzer Endowed Professorship

Ahmad Omar (MSE)

The Carl W. Johnson Chair in Civil Engineering

Robert Harley (CEE)

The Class of 1951 Chair

Sophia Shao (EECS)

The Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence

Jonathan Bray (CEE)

The James Fife Chair

Roberto Horowitz (ME)

The Robert and Catherine Cliff Professorship in IEOR

Ying Cui (IEOR)

The Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science

S. Shankar Sastry (EECS/ME/BioE)

The Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering

Tarek I. Zohdi (ME)

Tien-Modak Chancellor’s Chair in Engineering

Shawn Shadden (ME)

Timothy and Karen Guertin Chair in Bioengineering

Liana Lareau (BioE)

Tony Xu & Patti Bao Chancellor’s Chair in Computer Science

Ion Stoica (EECS)

Tsu-Jae King Liu Chair for Student Success

Oscar Dubón (MSE)

United Microelectronics Corp. Distinguished Professorship

Junqiao Wu (MSE)

William S. Floyd and Jean McCallum Floyd Chair in Engineering

Per Peterson (NE)

William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering

Ken Goldberg (IEOR)

Wood-Calvert Chair in Engineering

Baoxia Mi (CEE)

Xenel Distinguished Professorship

Max Fratoni (NE)

Zhang Family Endowed Professorship in EECS

Emma Pierson (EECS)

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