Nominee Showcase

Ilkay Altintas
Chief Data Science Officer, Research Scientist & Faculty Fellow
UC San Diego — San Diego Supercomputer Center & Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

James Haddow Baird
Professor & Turfgrass Specialist in Cooperative Extension 
UC Riverside

Michael Beck
Director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience & AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience 
UC Santa Cruz

Sam King
Professor of Computer Science 
UC Davis

Michael Leon
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology & Behavior 
UC Irvine

Felice Lightstone
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Kevan Shokat
Professor of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology 
UC San Francisco

Tyler Susko
Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering 
UC Santa Barbara

Fyodor Urnov
Professor & Director for Therapeutic R&D 
UC Berkeley

Matthew Conley
Professor of Chemistry 
UC Riverside

Brett Helms
Senior Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Markita Landry
Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering 
UC Berkeley

Chang Liu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 
UC Irvine

Susan Lynch
Professor of Medicine 
UC San Francisco

Alysson Muotri
Professor of Pediatrics and of Cellular & Molecular Medicine 
UC San Diego

Aydogan Ozcan
Chancellor's Professor & The Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation 
UCLA 

David Palmer
Scientist 
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Shijia Pan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering 
UC Merced

Kevin Plaxco
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry 
UC Santa Barbara

Iman Soltani
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering 
UC Davis

Joseph DeRisi
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Gordon M. Tomkins Chair
UC San Francisco — Delve Bio

Elliot Hawkes & David Haggerty
Mechanical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara — Vine Medical

Theodore Holman
Professor of Chemistry & Biology
UC Santa Cruz — Loxagen

JP Hubschman
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
UCLA — Horizon Surgical Systems

Jay Keasling
Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
UC Berkeley — ResVita

Erika La Plante
Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
UC Davis — Equatic

Maurizio Pellecchia
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Daniel Hays Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
UC Riverside — Armida Labs

Joseph Rinehart
Vice Chair for Research, Anesthesiology
UC Irvine — Perceptive Medical

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Elizabeth Cleveland
Chief Strategist for Sustainable Growth for the City of Berkeley
UC Berkeley

Bud Colligan
Founder & CEO of South Swell Ventures
UC Santa Cruz

Patricia Lock Dawson
Mayor of the City of Riverside
UC Riverside

Joshua Green
Founder & Chairperson of UCLA Ventures; Professor, School of Law
UCLA

Gene Lay
Founder, President & CEO of BioLegend; President & CEO, Laygend Foundation
UC San Diego

Harold Schmitz
Senior Scholar at the Graduate School of Management
UC Davis

John Bowers
Fred Kavli Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

Jean-Claude Falmagne
Research Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences
UC Irvine

Richard Green
Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Stephen Hauser
Director of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences & Professor of Neurology
UC San Francisco

Michael Jung
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
UCLA

Jay Keasling
Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Joint BioEnergy Institute

Mikeal Roose
Professor Emeritus of Genetics
UC Riverside

Alberto Sangiovanni
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

Justin Siegel
Professor of Chemistry and Genome & Biomedical Sciences Facility
UC Davis

Jennifer Smith
Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Director of the Marine Biology Research Division
UC San Diego