Congratulations to all our endowed chair holders,
and thank you to everyone who has made these chairs possible.
Endowed chairs are one of the highest recognitions that can be awarded to a faculty member by their university. They are essential to recruiting, retaining and honoring top minds in academia. Endowed chairs come with annual funding that faculty can use to support graduate students or otherwise initiate new lines of creative research. This flexible funding is often game-changing when it comes to launching new cross-disciplinary research collaborations and generating preliminary results needed to successfully obtain multi-year research funding.
New in 2024: We created 18 new endowed chairs here at the Jacobs School
Christine Alvarado
Paul R. Kube Endowed Chair of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, UC San Diego
Vineet Bafna
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Chancellor’s Endowed Chairs
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Farhat Beg
Shao-Chi and Lily Lin Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Engineering Science
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mihir Bellare
S. Gill Williamson Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pedro Cabrales
Alan M. Schneider Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Jiun-Shyan "JS" Chen
William Prager Endowed Chair Professor in Structural Mechanics
Department of Structural Engineering
Shaochen Chen
Zable Endowed Chair in NanoEngineering Technologies
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
Henrik Christensen
Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems at the University of California San Diego
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Contextual Robotics Institute
Karen Christman
Pierre Galletti Endowed Chair for Bioengineering Innovation
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Welfare, Jacobs School of Engineering
Carlos Coimbra
John Dove Isaacs Endowed Chair in Natural Philosophy
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Joel Conte
Eric and Johanna Reissner Chair
Department of Structural Engineering
Pam Cosman
Jack Keil Wolf Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jorge Cortes
Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in High Performance Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sujit Dey
Jacobs Family Chair in Management and Engineering Leadership I
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Wireless Communications
Faculty Director, Institute for the Global Entrepreneur
Adam Engler
Kenneth Bowles Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
Halicioğlu Chair in Computer Architecture
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shaya Fainman
Cymer Professor in Advanced Optical Technologies
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Fenning
Francine Berman Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
James Friend
Stanford S. & Beverly P. Penner Professor in Engineering or Applied Science
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Eric Fullerton
Center for Memory and Recording Research Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Memory and Recording Research
Olivia Graeve
Elias Masry Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rajesh Gupta
Qualcomm Professor in Embedded Microsystems
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Jeff Hasty
Paul A. Libby Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Department of Molecular Biology in the School of Biological Sciences
Robert Heath
Charles Lee Powell Chair in Wireless Communication
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tara Javidi
Jerzy (George) Lewak Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-Director, Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing and Security (MICS)
Andrew B. Kahng
Endowed Chair in High Performance Computing
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryan Kastner
William Nachbar Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Jan Kleissl
Henry G. Booker Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Director, UC San Diego DERConnect (Distributed Energy Resources Connect)
Farinaz Koushanfar
Siavouche Nemat-Nasser Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-Director, Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing and Security (MICS)
Vish Krishnan
Jacobs Family Chair in Management and Engineering Leadership II
Associate Director, Institute for the Global Entrepreneur
Professor of Innovation, Technology and Operations
UC San Diego Rady School of Management
Miroslav Krstic
Daniel L. Alspach Professor of Dynamic Systems and Controls
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UC San Diego
Ping Liu
William Coles Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
Director, Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC)
Yu-Hwa Lo
William S. C. Chang Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sonia Martinez
Benjamin W. Zweifach Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andrew McCulloch
Shu Chien Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Engineering and Medicine
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Director, Institute of Engineering and Medicine
Xinyu Zhang
Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Communication Access Techniques
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alon Orlitsky
Qualcomm Professor of Information Theory and its Applications
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Information Theory and Applications Center
Bernhard Palsson
Y.C. Fung Endowed Chair in Bioengineering
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Director, CHO Systems Biology Center
Pavel Pevzner
Ronald R. Taylor Professor in Information Technology and Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Albert P. Pisano
Walter J. Zable Chair in Engineering
Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Laurel Riek
David R. Miller Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine
Ravi Ramamoorthi
Ronald L. Graham Chair of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Director, Center for Visual Computing
Ramesh Rao
Qualcomm Professor in Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Qualcomm Institute (the UC San Diego Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology)
Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Wireless Communications Industry Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tajana S. Rosing
John J. and Susan M. Fratamico Endowed Chair
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Barna Saha
Harry E. Gruber Professor in Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Sutanu Sarkar
Blasker Professor in Environmental Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Stefan Savage
Irwin Mark and Joan Klein Jacobs Professor in Information and Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Paul Siegel
Center for Memory and Recording Research Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gabriel A. Silva
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Alex C. Snoeren
Peter Banks Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shankar Subramaniam
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor in Bioengineering and Systems Biology
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Steve Swanson
Halicioğlu Chair in Memory Systems
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Andrea Tao
Jeanne Ferrante Endowed Chair in Jacobs School of Engineering
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
Associate Dean for Students, Jacobs School of Engineering
Mehran Tehrani
Callaway Golf Endowed Chair
Department of Structural Engineering
George Tynan
Kazuo Iwama Chair in Material Science
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Geoffrey Voelker
CSE Professorship in Internet Privacy and/or Internet Data Security
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Joe Wang
SAIC Endowed Chair
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
Director, Center for Wearable Sensors
Forman Williams
Presidential Professor in Energy and Combustion Research
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Liangfang Zhang
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor's Endowed Chair Professor
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
Yuanyuan Zhou
Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Mobile Computing
Department of Computer Science and Engineering