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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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J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Department
    • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Lise 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 (Steve) Kang

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

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

  • Title
    • Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair Professor
  • Department
    • Baskin School of Engineering
  • Campus Email
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Marc 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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Steve Whittaker

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Alexander Wolf

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

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 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

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