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Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chair

Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chairs have received the highest academic award that UCSC can bestow on a faculty member, creating a lasting legacy for the Baskin School of Engineering.

Distinguished Professors

Phillip W Berman

Title
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department
- Biomolecular Engineering
Campus Email
- pwb@ucsc.edu

J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Title
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department
- Computer Science and Engineering
Campus Email
- jjaceves@ucsc.edu

Lise Getoor

Title
- Distinguished Professor, Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering
Department
- Computer Science and Engineering
Campus Email
- getoor@ucsc.edu

David Haussler

Title
- Distinguished Professor
Department
- Biomolecular Engineering
Campus Email
- haussler@ucsc.edu

Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang

Title
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Campus Email
- skang@ucsc.edu

Phokion Kolaitis

Title
- Distinguished Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department
- Computer Science and Engineering
Campus Email
- kolaitis@ucsc.edu

Darrell Long

Title
- Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair Professor
Department
- Baskin School of Engineering
Campus Email
- darrell@ucsc.edu

Marc Mangel

Title
- Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Department
- Applied Mathematics
Campus Email
- msmangel@ucsc.edu

Holger Schmidt

Title
- Distinguished Professor, Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics
Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Campus Email
- hschmidt@ucsc.edu

Steve Whittaker

Title
- Professor Emeritus
Department
- Computational Media
Campus Email
- swhittak@ucsc.edu

Alexander Wolf

Title
- Dean
Department
- Computer Science and Engineering
Campus Email
- alw@ucsc.edu

Engineering Endowed Chairs

Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics

Olena Morozova Vaske, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Olena Morozova Vaske

Jack Baskin Chair in Biomolecular Engineering

Rebecca DuBois, Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering

Rebecca DuBois

Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering

Lise Getoor, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Lise Getoor

Jack Baskin Chair in Engineering

Katherine C Isbister, Professor, Computational Media

Katherine C Isbister

Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics

Holger Schmidt, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Holger Schmidt

Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software

Carlos Maltzahn, Adjunct Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, and Director of the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS)

Carlos Maltzahn