The Distinguished Professor title is a campus-level distinction and is reserved for Above Scale senate faculty who have achieved the highest levels of scholarship over the course of their careers. Distinguished Professors will typically have earned national and international level distinctions and honors of the highest level.
Senate faculty who hold a title of distinction can describe their affiliations and/or disciplines in a format such as: Distinguished Professor, Department of X. The list of Distinguished Professor, Emeritus/a, can be found here.
Hoda Anton-Culver
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Epidemiology
School of Medicine
Diran Apelian
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Kyriacos Athanasiou
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Pierre Baldi
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of ICS
Tallie Z. Baram
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
Alan Barbour
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Dept. of Medicine
School of Medicine
Christopher Barty
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences
Donald R. Blake
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
Andrew Borovik
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
Adriana D. Briscoe
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Philip Bromiley
Distinguished Professor
Paul Merage School of Business
Jan Brueckner
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Economics
School of Social Sciences
Kieron Burke
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
Michael D. Cahalan
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics
School of Medicine
Cameron Carter
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
School of Medicine
Chuansheng Chen
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Psychological Science
School of Social Ecology
Olivier Civelli
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Dan Cooper
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
Imran Currim
Distinguished Professor
Paul Merage School of Business
Eve Darian-Smith
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Global & International Studies
School of Social Sciences
Rina Dechter
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Sciences
Donald Bren School of ICS
Luis De La Maza
Distinguished Professor
Department of Pathology
School of Medicine
Barbara A. Dosher
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Ellen Druffel
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Earth System Science
School of Physical Sciences
Greg J. Duncan
Distinguished Professor
School of Education
Nikil Dutt
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of ICS
Jacquelynne Sue Eccles
Distinguished Professor
School of Education
David Eppstein
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of ICS
Gregory Evans
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Plastic Surgery
School of Medicine
Jonathan Lee Feng
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences
Matthew Foreman
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Mathematics
School of Physical Sciences
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Steven Frank
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Michael Franz
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of ICS
Christine Gall
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology
School of Medicine
Jean-Luc Gaudiot
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Brandon Gaut
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Tryphon Georgiou
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Margaret Gilbert
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Philosophy
School of Humanities
Charles Glabe
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
David Goldberg
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Comparative Literature
School of Humanities
Steven Goldstein
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics
School of Medicine
Michael Goodrich
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Sciences
Donald Bren School of ICS
Sergei Grando
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Dermatology
School of Medicine
Stephen Hanessian
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Health Sciences
Jutta Heckhausen
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Psychological Science
School of Social Ecology
William W. Heidbrink
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences
Carrie Hempel
Distinguished Professor of Teaching
School of Law
Gregory Hickok
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Language Science
Dept. of Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Wilson Ho
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences
Anthony James
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
School of Medicine
Dept. of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Valerie Jenness
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society
School of Social Ecology
James Jester
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Ophthalmology
School of Medicine
Zeev Kain
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Anesthesiology
School of Medicine
Pramod Khargonekar
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Judith Kroll
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Language Science
School of Social Science
Arthur Lander
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Developmental & Cell Biology
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Albert La Spada
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Pathology
School of Medicine
Guann-Pyng Li
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Simin Liu
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health
Elizabeth Loftus
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Psychological Science
Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society
School of Social Ecology
Guann-Pyng Li
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Lar Lubovitch
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Dance
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Julia Lupton
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of English
School of Humanities
Gary Lynch
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
School of Medicine
Catherine Malabou
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Comparative Literature
Dept. of European Languages & Studies
School of Humanities
George Marcus
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Anthropology
School of Social Sciences
John McCarthy
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Bruce McNaughton
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Sharad Mehrotra
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Donald Brend School of ICS
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Distinguished Professor
School of Law
Tyrus Miller
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Art History/Dept of English
School of Humanities
Kristen Monroe
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Political Science
School of Social Sciences
Dana Mukamel
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Medicine
School of Medicine
Shaul Mukamel
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
J. Stuart Nelson
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Surgery
School of Medicine
David Neumark
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Economics
School of Social Sciences
Alexandru Nicolau
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Sciences
Donald Bren School of ICS
Qing Nie
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Mathematics/Dept. of Developmental & Cell Biology
School of Physical Sciences
James Nowick
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
Adeline Nyamathi
Distinguished Professor
Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing
Oladele Ogunseitan
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Population, Health & Disease Prevention
Program in Public Health
Krzysztof Palczewski
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Ophthalmology
School of Medicine
Xiaoqing Pan
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences
Daniele Piomelli
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology
School of Medicine
Duncan Pritchard
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Philosophy
School of Humanities
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of English
School of Humanities
Bryan Reynolds
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Drama
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Eric Rignot
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Earth System Science
School of Physical Sciences
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Sociology
School of Social Sciences
Scott Rychnovsky
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
Hamid Said
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Medicine
Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics
School of Medicine
Eric Saltzman
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Earth System Science
School of Physical Sciences
Richard Schoen
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Mathematics
School of Physical Sciences
Gabriele Schwab
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Comparative Literature
School of Humanities
Bert L. Semler
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
School of Medicine
Roxane C. Silver
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Psychological Science
School of Social Ecology
William Sirignano
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Brian Skyrms
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Logic & Philosophy of Science
School of Social Sciences
Etel Solingen
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Political Science
School of Social Sciences
Soroosh Sorooshian
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Hal S. Stern
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Statistics
Donald Bren School of ICS
Oswald Steward
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Lee Swindlehurst
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Edward Telles
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Sociology
School of Social Sciences
Andrea Tenner
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Julian Thayer
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Psychological Science
School of Social Ecology
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Comparative Literature
Dept. of English
School of Humanities
Douglas Tobias
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
Grace Tonner
Distinguished Professor of Teaching
School of Law
Gene Tsudik
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of ICS
Vijay Vazirani
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of ICS
Mark Warschauer
Distinguished Professor
School of Education
Steven R. White
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences
Ruqian Wu
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences