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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
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Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Lise C Getoor

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor, Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering
  • Department
    • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Campus Email
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David Haussler

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Biomolecular Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Sung Mo Kang

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Phokion Kolaitis

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Darrell D E Long

  • Title
    • Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair Professor
  • Department
    • Baskin School of Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Marc S Mangel

  • Title
    • Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Applied Mathematics
  • Campus Email
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Holger Schmidt

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor, Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics
  • Department
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Stephen J Whittaker

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Alexander Lee Wolf

  • Title
    • Dean
  • Department
    • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Engineering Endowed Chairs

UCSC Presidential Chair

Magy Seif El-Nasr, Professor, Computational Media

Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics

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

Jack Baskin Chair in Biomolecular Engineering

Rebecca DuBois, Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering

Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering

Lise Getoor, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering II

Shiva Abbaszadeh, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jack Baskin Chair in Engineering

Katherine C Isbister, Professor, Computational Media

Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics

Holger Schmidt, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software

James Davis, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems

Heiner Litz, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering