Advisory Board Members
Dado Banatao
Advisory Board Chair
Simon J. Atkinson
Vice Chancellor for Research
UC Davis
Liana Bailey-Crimmins
State Chief Information Officer and Director
California Department of Technology
Jennifer Chayes
Dean of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
UC Berkeley
William Dean Donovan
Managing Director and Co-founder
DiamondStream Partners
Stuart Feldman
Chief Scientist
Schmidt Futures
Nickhil Jakatdar
CEO
GenePath Diagnostics
Tsu-Jae King Liu
Dean of the College of Engineering
UC Berkeley
John MacMillan
Vice Chancellor for Research
UC Santa Cruz
Theresa A. Maldonado
Vice President for Research and Innovation
UC Office of the President
George Pavlov
CEO
Bayshore Global Management
David Rapaport
Head of Research and Collaboration Management U.S.
Siemens Corporate Technology
George Rehm
Director
iSono Health
S. Shankar Sastry
CITRIS Director Emeritus (2005–07)
Matt Sonsini
Principal and Co-founder
Academic Innovation Catalyst
Gillian Wilson
Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development
UC Merced
Katherine Yelick
Vice Chancellor for Research
UC Berkeley
Weijie Yun
Founder and Managing Partner
Tyche Partners
Advisors to the Director
Darek DeFreece
Special Advisor to the Director
Victoria Coleman
Former Senior Advisor to the Director (2021–23)
Past Board Members
Steven Beckwith
Professor of Astronomy
UC Berkeley
Kurt D. Bettenhausen
CTO and CDO
SCHUNK
John Gage
Co-founder
NetDay
Jeffery C. Gibeling
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
University of California, Davis
Andrea Goldsmith
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science
Princeton University
Paul R. Gray
Professor Emeritus
UC Berkeley
Christine Gulbranson
CEO and Founder
Christalis
Russell Hirsch
Managing Director
Prospect Venture Partners
Randy Katz
CITRIS Interim Director Emeritus
(before 2001 launch)
Prasant Mohapatra
Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs
University of South Florida
Gavin Newsom
40th Governor of California
Patrick Scaglia
Chairman
Y Combinator HARC
James Spohrer
Director
Cognitive OpenTech at IBM
Amy Tong
Secretary
California Government Operations Agency
Marjorie S. Zatz
Special Assistant to the Chancellor
UC Merced