Electrical Engineering
      and Computer Sciences

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UC Berkeley

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Distinguished Alumni

Academia    (Top 15 engineering graduate schools)

Industry

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

Electrical Engineering
West Coast

Berkeley

Anantharam, Venkat
Budinger, Thomas
Chang-Hasnain, Constance
Hu, Chenming
Lee, Edward
Morgan, Nelson (PIR)
Newton, Richard
Niknejad, Ali
Pister, Kristofer
Pollack, Lucien (Emeritus)
Sastry, Shankar
Shank, Charles
Tomlin, Claire
Van Duzer, Theodore (Emeritus)
Varaiya, Pravin
Walrand, Jean
Welch, William J.
Whinnery, John (Emeritus)
Wu, Ming

Stanford

Bambos, Nick
Boyd, Stephen P.
De Micheli, Giovanni
Dutton, Robert W.*2000
Goldsmith, Andrea
Howe, Roger
Kahn,Joseph
McKeown, Nick
Meng, Theresa
Murmann, Boris
Wong, S. Simon
Wooley, Bruce*2003

Cal Tech

Bridges, William
Doyle, John
Low, Steven
Murray, Richard M.
Perona, Pietro
Rutledge, David
Tai, Yu-Chong
Yariv, Amnon

USC

Breuer, Melvin
Feinberg, Jack
Hwang, Kai
Kim, Eun Sok
Pedram, Massoud

UCLA

Abidi, Asad
Jacobsen, Stephen E.
Judy, Jack
Markovic, Dejan
Srivastava, Mani
Wang, Paul K.C.

Midwest

University of Michigan

Lafortune, Stéphane
Maharbiz, Michel
Nguyen, Clark
Pradhan, Sandeep
Tilbury, Dawn

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Adesida, Ilesanmi
Cangellaris, Andreas
Chiu, Yun
DeTemple, Thomas
Gross, George
Hajak, Bruce
Hajj, Ibrahim
Kwiat, Paul
Ma, Yi
Pai, Anantha
Poon, Ada
Rosembaum, Elyse
Viswanath, Pramod

Purdue

Hu, Jianghai
Sands, Timothy

University of Texas, Austin

Arapostathis, Aristotle
Baldick, Ross
Chen, Ray
de Veciana, Gustavo
Garg, Vijay
Gharpurey, Ranjit
Lee, Jack
Orshansky, Michael

East Coast

MIT

Goyal, Vivek
Ippen, Erich
Lee, Hae-Seung
Sodini, Charles
White, Jacob
Zheng, Lizhong

Harvard

Wood, Robert

Carnegie Mellon University

Fedder, Gary
Rohrer, Ronald

Princeton

Malik, Sharad

University of Maryland

Abed, Eyad
Bhattacharyya,Shuvra S.
Gligor, Virgil
La, Richard
Newcomb, Robert
Tits, Andre
Zaki, Kawthar

Georgia Tech

Buck, John
Kornegay, Kevin
Madisetti, Vijay
May, Gary
Milor, Linda
Wardi, Yorai



*Outstanding Alumnus Award in Electrical Engineering Recipient
Computer Science
West Coast

University of Washington

Borriello, Gaetano
Eggers, Susan
Gribble, Steven
Ivory, Melody
Ladner, Richard
Ruzzo, Walte

UC Berkeley

Demmel, James**2004
Garcia, Daniel
Hearst, Marti
Katz, Randy**1994
McMains,Sara
Vazirani, Umesh
Wagner, David

Stanford University

Gill, John
Jurafsky, Dan
Kozyrakis, Christos
Motwani, Rajeev
Ng, Andrew
Rosenblum, Mendel

Cal Tech

Perona, Pietro
Umans, Christopher

USC

Leonard Adleman**1995

UCLA

Klinger, Allen
Majumdar, Rupak
Potkonjak, Miodrag
Tamir, Yuval

Mid West

University of Michigan

Chen, Pete
Mao, Morley
Dennis Sysvester

University of Wisconsin

Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea
Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi
Bach, Eric
Carey, Michael**2002
Chenney, Stephen
Hill, Mark
Klein, Sheldon
Wood, David

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Erickson, Jeff
Hwu, Wen-mei
Lumetta, Steven
Wah, Ben
Yu, Yizho

University of Texas, Austin

Dahlin, Mike
Dhillon, Inderjit
Warnow, Tandy
Zuckerman, David

East Coast

MIT

Asanovic, Krste
Balakrishnan, Hari
Chandrakasan, Anantha P.
Devadas, Srinivas
Goldwasser, Shafi
Lampson, Butler
Liskov, Barbara**1999
Madden, Sam
Micali, Silvio
Rubinfeld, Ronitt
Sipser, Michael
Sudan, Madhu**2003
Teller, Seth

Cornell

Birman, Ken
Schmoys, David

Harvard

Grosz, Barbara**1997
Mitzenmacher, Michael
Seltzer, Margo
Welsh, Matt

Yale

Angluin, Dana
Krishnamurthy, Arvind

Carnegie Mellon University

Cooper, Eric
Efros, Alexei
Fedder, Gary
Gibson, Garth
Goldstein, Seth
Gupta, Anupam
Harchol-Balter, Mor
Heckbert, Paul
Miller, Gary
Rohrer, Ronald (Emeritus)
Rudich, Steven
Seshan, Srini
Song, Dawn
Xing, Eric P.
Zhang, Hui

Princeton

Arora, Sanjeev**2003
Blei, David M.
Funkhouser, Tom

 







**Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science Recipient
 
Industry

David Auston, President, Kavli Foundation, *1997

Ahmad Bahai, CTO, National Semiconductor

Stephen Beck
, Founder, Beck-Tech Corportion, *2003

Larry Boucher
, Founder, President and CEO, Alacritech

Doug Carlisle, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures

Michael J. Carey
, IBM Almaden Research Center,**2002

Pehong Chen, President & CEO BroadVision, Inc.

Ming J. Chien
, Chairman, First International Computer, Inc., *2001

H-T Chua
, founder Peer Research (now Quick Logic)

John Couch
, Vice-President, Education, Apple Computer, **1999

William Craven, Vice President & General Manager (retired), Hewlett-Packard Company

James Dao
, Founder, president, and CEO, Genyous Biomed, *1997

L. Peter Deutsch
, Founder, Aladdin Enterprises, **1993

Stephen Domenik, Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds

Douglas Engelbart
, Founder, Bootstrap Institute, **1991

Bob Epstein, Co-founder, Sybase, GetActive Software, Zight, and Britton-Lee

James Fiebiger
, Director, QLogic Corporation

Herve Gallaire
, President and CTO, Xerox Innovation Group, **1991

Charles Giancarlo, Senior Vice-president and Chief Development Officer, Cisco Systems

James Gray
, Microsoft Research, **1992

Paul E. Gulick, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Clarity Visual Systems, Inc.

Paula Hawthorn, Consultant, **1996

Deirdre Ryan Hanford, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Applications & Services, Synopsys, Inc.

Barry. G. Haskell
, AT&T Labs-Research, *1998

William G. Howard, Independent Consulting Engineer*1999

Jean-Paul Jacob
, IBM Almaden Research Center, **1992

Paul Jacobs
, CEO, QUALCOMM

William Joy, Co-founder, Sun Microsystems, **1992

Hisashi Kaneko, Chairman of the Board, NEC (retired)

Butler Lampson, Architect, Microsoft, Adjunct Professor, MIT, co-inventor, Xerox PARC's Alto computer

Theodore Kamins, Principal Scientist, HP

Pradman Kaul, Chairman and CEO, Hughes Network Systems

Amit Lal, Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

David D. Lee, Founder and CEO, Silicon Image, Inc.

Kuang-lu Lee, Foxconn, Taiwan

Bruce Lindsay
, IBM Almaden Research Center, **2001

Toshiaki Masuhara, Senior Chief Engineer, Hitachi Corporation

Amit Mehrotra, Co-founder and CTO of Berkeley Design Automation

Sanjay Mehrotra
, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President, SanDisk

Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google, **2006

Mihir Parikh
, Chairman and CEO, Asyst Technologies, *2000

Robert Pepper, Founder Level One Communications (acquired by Intel), *1996

Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Research, Yahoo, **2006

Eric Schmidt, CEO, GOOGLE, **1997

Ronald V. Schmidt, Co-founder of SynOptics Communications, Vice-president and CTO, Bay Networks

Barbara Simons, Past president, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), **2000

Charles Simonyi, Chief architect, Microsoft

Roger Sippl, Founder and Chairman, Above All Software, **1995

Dale Skeen, CEO, Vitria, **2001

Sehat Sutardja, Chairman, President and CEO, Marvell Technology Group

Pantas Sutardja, CTO, Marvell Technology Group

Charles (Chuck) Thacker, Co-inventor of the Ethernet, major developer of the laser printer, hardware designer of the Microsoft Tablet PC

Ken Thompson, Bell Labs (retired), **1992

Ralph Ungermann, Co-founder, Zilog, Ungermann-Bass and First Virtual Corp.

Steven Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Computer Company, **1998

 
*Outstanding Alumnus Award in Electrical Engineering

2003

Stephen Beck
Bruce A. Wooley
 
2001 Ming J. Chien
Steve Sung-Mo Kang
 
2000 Robert W. Dutton
Mihir Parikh
 
1999 William G. Howard Jr.
Noel C. MacDonald
 
1998 Barry G. Haskell
Mohammed Ghausi
 
1997 David Auston
James Dao
 
1996 Stephen Director
Robert Pepper
 
     
     
     
     
     
**Distinguished Alumni Awards in Computer Science
2006 Peter Norvig
Wen-Tsuen Chen
Silvio Micali
Shafi Goldwasser
Prabhakar Raghavan
1997 Barbara Grosz
Eric Schmidt
2004 James Demmel 1996 Charles Thacker
Paula Hawthorn
2003 Madhu Sudan
Sanjeev Arora
1995 Leonard Adleman
Roger Sippl
2002 Michael Carey
Sally Floyd
1994 James Eaton
Randy Katz
2001 Bruce Lindsay
Dale Skeen
1993 Peter Deutsch
Narendra Karmarkar
2000 Barbara Simons Fall
1992
Jean-Paul Jacob
Butler Lampson
Niklaus Wirth
1999 John Couch
Barbara Liskov
Spring
1992
James Gray
William Joy
Ken Thompson
1998 Steven Wozniak 1991 Douglas Engelbart
Hervé Gallaire
     
 
Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards Honorees - College of Engineering

2005
2005
2004
2004
2003
2002
2000
1998

John Deng, EECS '97
Tom Zhang, EECS '04
E. Floyd Kvamme, EE '59
In Sik Rhee, EECS '93
Yong-Kyung "Ken" Lee, EECS '75
Valerie E. Taylor, EECS '91
Jacques I. Pankove, EE '44 '48
David A. Hodges, EE '61 '66

1994
1991
1990
1988
1984
1982
1980
1979

Arthur Fong, EE '43
Howard, G. Wilson, EE '48 '50
Charles V. Shank, EECS '65 '66 '69
Edward L. Ginzton, EE '36 '37
Charles F. Dalziel, EE '27 '34
Malcolm R. Currie, EE '52 '54
John R. Whinnery, EE '37 '48
Joseph M. Pettit, EE '38