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

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 Raluca Popa (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 Paulo Monteiro (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 Martin Wainwright (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 Joseph Hellerstein (EECS)
Paul R. Gray Alumni Presidential Chair in Engineering Excellence Björn Hartmann (EECS)
Paul R. Gray Distinguished Chair Jeffrey Bokor (EECS)
Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor’s Chair
Saikat Chaudhuri (Haas/ME)
Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professorship Costas Spanos (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 Claudia Ostertag (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 Benjamin Recht (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)
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