Lewis Branscomb
Professor Emeritus School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego
Elected in 1974 for leadership in advancing national and international science and technology.
*also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.
Andrew Viterbi
Co-founder of Linkabit and Qualcomm. Dr. Viterbi taught electrical engineering at UC San Diego.
Elected in 1978 for contributions to communication and coding.
Victor Rumsey
Professor Emeritus Electrical & Computer Engineering
Elected in 1980 for research in practical applications of electromagnetic theory, especially in design of radio antennas insensitive to frequency and polarization.
Irwin Jacobs
Co-founder of Linkabit and Qualcomm. Dr. Jacobs served as a founding UC San Diego faculty member where he helped build programs in electrical and computer engineering.
Elected in 1982 for contributions to communication theory and practice, and leadership in high-technology product development.
Robert Conn
Professor Emeritus Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Elected in 1987 for major pioneering contributions in the fields of fusion engineering, fusion plasma analysis, and fusion reactor design.
James Lemke
Adjunct Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
Elected in 1988 for lifelong leadership in magnetic recording theory and practice, including both engineering design and materials science.
Forman Williams
Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Elected in 1988 for contributions to the advancement of combustion and flame theory.
Larry Smarr
Professor Computer Science & Engineering
Elected in 1995 for leadership in high-performance computing and communications.
Shu Chien
Professor *Bioengineering
Elected in 1997 for research in blood rheology, microcirculation, cell mechanics, atherogenesis, and tissue engineering.
*Elected to Institute of Medicine, 1994
*Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 2005
John Watson
Professor Bioengineering
Elected in 1998 for enabling human mechanical artificial heart research and developing the related NIH program, including industrial implementation.
Sungho Jin
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Elected in 1999 for research on new magnetic materials and high-temperature superconductors.
Frieder Seible
Professor Emeritus Structural Engineering
Elected in 1999 for contributions to research, development, and applications in seismic analysis, and the design, construction, and retrofitting of bridges.
Frank Talke
Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Elected in 1999 for work in tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage systems, ink jet technology, and interferometric instrumentation, and for bridging industrial and academic research.
Albert P. Pisano
Professor and Dean; Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Elected in 2001 for contributions to the design, fabrication, commercialization, and educational aspects of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
William Kuperman
Adjunct Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Elected in 2004 for international leadership in the development and application of computational methods for ocean acoustics.
Geert Schmid-Schönbein
Professor Bioengineering
Elected in 2005 for improvements to our understanding of how white blood cells are activated and the effects on medicine and pharmacology.
Pradeep Khosla
Chancellor, UC San Diego
Elected in 2006 for contributions to design and sensor-based control in robotic systems for the assembly of high-precision electronics and for leadership in engineering education.
Roberto Padovani
Faculty Affiliate Electrical & Computer Engineering
Elected in 2006 for innovations in wireless communication, particularly the evolution of CDMA for wireless broadband data.
Bernhard O. Palsson
Professor Bioengineering
Elected in 2006 for scholarship, technological advances, and entrepreneurial activities in metabolic engineering.
Peter M. Asbeck
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected in 2007 for contributions to heterojunction bipolar transistor and integrated circuit technology.
David Whelan
Professor of Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected in 2007 for his development and application of Air-Air Radar Imaging.
Paul Siegel
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research
Elected in 2008 for the invention and development of advanced coding techniques for digital recording systems.
Don Norman
Professor Emeritus, Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
Elected in 2011 for development of design principles based on human cognition that enhance the interaction between people and technology.
Terrence Sejnowski
Professor of Neurobiology, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego; Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Elected in 2011 for contributions to artificial and real neural network algorithms and applying signal processing models to neuroscience.
John Arthur Orcutt
Professor of Geophysics and Distinguished Researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Elected in 2011 for international leadership in development of new ocean-observing infrastructure and environmental and geophysics research.
Michael Baskes
Adjunct Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Elected in 2012 for contributions to the embedded atom method for predicting the structure and properties of metals and alloys.
Peter C. Farrell
Member of the Council of Advisors of the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering
Elected in 2012 for research and development of devices for treatment of sleep-disordered breathing.
Stefan Savage
Professor Computer Science and Engineering
Elected in 2023 for contributions to the security, privacy and reliability of network systems, transforming approaches to problems in these areas.
Nambirajan Seshadri
Professor of Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected in 2012 for contributions to wireless communications theory and development of mass market wireless technology.
Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Wireless Communications Industry Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected in 2016 for contributions to radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS) and phased array technologies.
Eric Fullerton
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and NanoEngineering
Elected in 2018 for invention and development of multilayer, high-density magnetic recording media.
Fred Kocks
Faculty Affiliate Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Elected in 1999 for advancements in the theory of strength, kinetics of plasticity of metals, and texture analysis.
Kimberly A. Prather
Distinguished Professor and Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry
Elected in 2019 for technologies that transformed understanding of aerosols and their impacts on air quality, climate, and human health.
Paul Jacobs
Adjunct Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Elected in 2016 for leadership in the design, development, and worldwide commercialization of wireless products and services.