Leadership

Vice Chancellor for Research and Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Katherine A. Yelick serves as UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor for Research. Her administrative portfolio includes management of more than 50 campus research units, 12 research museums and remote field stations, and all research administration offices. She previously served as Executive Associate Dean in the Division of Computing, Data Science and Society. She also is a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in high performance computing, programming systems, parallel algorithms and computational genomics. 

Vice Chancellor for Research

Simon J. Atkinson is the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Davis.  Atkinso has more than 20 years of leadership and is internationally recognized for his studies in the prevention and treatment of acute kidney injuries that can be triggered by heart failure, cardiac surgery, toxins and contrast agents used in diagnostic tests. In 2005, he co-founded INphoton, a life sciences company. Atkinson has a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree in cell and molecular biology from King’s College London. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 

Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Pramod Khargonekar has more than three decades of experience as a scholar, educator and leader in academic institutions and government organizations. He is an expert in control and systems theory, cyber-physical systems and applications to manufacturing, biomedical engineering and renewable energy and smart grids. Most recently, he has been working on the confluence of machine learning for control and estimation. Beyond these, he is deeply interested in understanding and improving processes that connect research to innovation. 

Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Medicine and Health Policy

As vice chancellor for Research, Harold Collard oversees and stewards UCSF's research mission. Collard previously served as Associate Vice Chancellor of Clinical Research and Director of UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. In this role, he helped to position UCSF as a leader in the NIH’s national consortium of clinical research institutions. Collard has written seminal articles on the epidemiology, natural history, and management of interstitial lung disease, and is an internationally recognized clinical researcher.

Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science and Susan & Bruce Worster Dean of Science

Pierre Wiltzius is the Susan and Bruce Worster Dean of Science and Professor of Physics. Prior to his arrival at UC Santa Barbara, he was the Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Professor of materials science and engineering, and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research is focused on developing new fabrication techniques for photonic crystals, including colloidal self-assembly and multi-beam interference lithography.