Endowed Chairs
UCLA Samueli has a record of attracting distinguished professors in every engineering discipline, who teach students and pursue promising areas of research. Today, 31 affiliated faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering, and more than 60 are recipients of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
Endowed chairs empower the school to recruit and retain faculty members of distinction whose work exemplifies UCLA’s mission of education, research and public service. Endowed chairs permanently bear the name of the donor, and often are directed to a specific department or area of expertise.
| Endowed Chair Name | Chair Holder |
|---|---|
| Armond and Elena Hairapetian Chair in Engineering and Medicine | Dino Di Carlo |
| Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair in Advanced Aerospace Technologies | Gregory Carman |
| Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Endowed Chair in Engineering | Yang Yang |
| Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. Endowed Term Chair in Engineering | Chee Wei Wong |
| Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering | Subramanian S. Iyer |
| Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Excellence | Jenn-Ming Yang |
| Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Innovation | Ann Karagozian |
| Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering | Ali Mosleh |
| Fang Lu Endowed Chair in Engineering | |
| J.M. Maguire Term Chair in Engineering | |
| John P. and Claudia H. Schauerman Endowed Chair in Engineering | Timothy Fisher |
| Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Systems | Lixia Zhang |
| Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking | George Varghese |
| L. M. K. Boelter Chair in Engineering | |
| Leonard Kleinrock Term Chair in Computer Science | Wei Wang |
| Levi James Knight, Jr. Term Chair for Excellence | Philippe Sautet |
| Levi James Knight, Jr. Term Chair for Innovation | Majid Sarrafzadeh |
| Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair | Mani Srivastava |
| Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair in Electrical Engineering | Dejan Markovic |
| Neria and Manizheh Yomtoubian Endowed Chair in Cancer and Risk Sciences | Arash Naeim |
| Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science | Bruce S. Dunn |
| Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences | Rafail Ostrovsky |
| Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering | Mona Jarrahi |
| Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electromagnetics | Yahya Rahmat-Samii |
| Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering | Jia-Ming Liu |
| Presidential Endowed Chair in Structural Engineering | Henry Burton |
| Pritzker Chair in Sustainability | Gaurav Sant |
| Raytheon Company Chair in Electrical Engineering | Kang Wang |
| Raytheon Company Chair in Manufacturing Engineering | Xiaochun Li |
| Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering | |
| Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean | Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park |
| Sabol-Scott Term Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science | Amit Sahai |
| Tatsuo Itoh Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemical Engineering | Yi Tang |
| The Ronald and Valerie Sugar Endowed Chair in Engineering | Jason Speyer |
| Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair | Yu Huang |
| Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering | Paulo Tabuada |
| Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence | Jason Cong |
| Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation | Aydogan Ozcan |
| Volgenau Endowed Chair in Engineering | Chang-Jin Kim |
| William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering Education | Panagiotis Christofides |
| William Frederick Seyer Endowed Chair in Materials Electrochemistry | Jane Chang |
| Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering | M. C. Frank Chang |
Page revised 2/5/2023.