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Members of the National Academies


National Academy of Engineering

	Lewis Branscomb Professor Emeritus School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD Elected in 1974 for leadership in advancing national and international science and technology. *also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.	Stanford Penner Professor Emeritus Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 1977 for contributions to aerothermochemistry and its application to combustion theory, radiative heat transfer, and reentry phenomena.

	Andrew Viterbi Co-founder of Linkabit and Qualcomm. Dr. Viterbi taught electrical engineering at UCSD. Elected in 1978 for contributions to communication and coding.	Y.C. Fung Professor Emeritus Bioengineering Elected in 1979 for contributions to the theory of elasticity and aeroelasticity, and applications to bioengineering. Elected to Institute of Medicine, 1991 Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 1992

	Victor Rumsey Professor Emeritus Electrical & Computer Engineering Elected in 1980 for research in practical applications of electromagnetic theory, especially in design of radio antennas insensitive to frequency and polarization.	Irwin Jacobs Co-founder of Linkabit and Qualcomm. Dr. Jacobs served as a founding UCSD faculty member where he helped build programs in electrical and computer engineering. Elected in 1982 for contributions to communication theory and practice, and leadership in high-technology product development.

	Robert Conn Professor Emeritus Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 1987 for major pioneering contributions in the fields of fusion engineering, fusion plasma analysis, and fusion reactor design.	James Lemke Adjunct Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering Elected in 1988 for lifelong leadership in magnetic recording theory and practice, including both engineering design and materials science.

	Forman Williams Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 1988 for contributions to the advancement of combustion and flame theory.	Larry Smarr Professor Computer Science & Engineering Elected in 1995 for leadership in high-performance computing and communications.

	Shu Chien Professor Bioengineering* Elected in 1997 for research in blood rheology, microcirculation, cell mechanics, atherogenesis, and tissue engineering. Elected to Institute of Medicine, 1994 Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 2005	John Watson Professor Bioengineering Elected in 1998 for enabling human mechanical artificial heart research and developing the related NIH program, including industrial implementation.

	Sungho Jin Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 1999 for research on new magnetic materials and high-temperature superconductors.	Paul Libby Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 1999 for contributions as a researcher, author, and educator who advanced knowledge of fluid dynamics, turbulence, and combustion through theoretical analyses.

	Frieder Seible Professor Structural Engineering Elected in 1999 for contributions to research, development, and applications in seismic analysis, and the design, construction, and retrofitting of bridges.	Frank Talke Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 1999 for work in tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage systems, ink jet technology, and interferometric instrumentation, and for bridging industrial and academic research.

	Sia Nemat Nasser Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 2001 for for pioneering micromechanical modeling and novel experimental evaluations of the responses and failure modes of heterogenous solids and structures.	William Kuperman Adjunct Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Elected in 2004 for international leadership in the development and application of computational methods for ocean acoustics.

	Geert Schmid-Schönbein Professor Bioengineering Elected in 2005 for improvements to our understanding of how white blood cells are activated and the effects on medicine and pharmacology.	Roberto Padovani Adjunct Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering Elected in 2006 for innovations in wireless communication, particularly the evolution of CDMA for wireless broadband data.

	Bernhard O. Palsson Professor Bioengineering Elected in 2006 for scholarship, technological advances, and entrepreneurial activities in metabolic engineering.	Peter M. Asbeck Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Elected in 2007 for contributions to heterojunction bipolar transistor and integrated circuit technology.

	Paul Siegel Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research Elected in 2008 for the invention and development of advanced coding techniques for digital recording systems.	Terrence Sejnowski Professor of Neurobiology, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD; Salk Institute for Biological Studies Elected in 2011 for contributions to artificial and real neural network algorithms and applying signal processing models to neuroscience. *also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine

	John Arthur Orcutt Professor of Geophysics and Distinguished Researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Elected in 2011 for international leadership in development of new ocean-observing infrastructure and environmental and geophysics research.	Michael Baskes Adjunct Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Elected in 2012 for contributions to the embedded atom method for predicting the structure and properties of metals and alloys.

	Peter C. Farrell Member of the Council of Advisors of the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering Elected in 2012 for research and development of devices for treatment of sleep-disordered breathing.	Juan C. Lasheras Distinguished Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering Elected in 2012 for studies of atomization, turbulent mixing, and heat transfer and for the development of medical devices.

	Robert Skelton Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Elected in 2012 for contributions to robust control, system identification, and methodology for control-structure interaction.


National Academy of Sciences

	Ronald Graham Professor Computer Science & Engineering Elected in 1985 for contributions to discrete mathematics and its applications through fundamental results in graph theory, combinatorial number theory, scheduling theory, Ramsey theory, and approximation algorithms. Through his papers and many professional activities, he plays a key role in the fruitful exchange of ideas between mathematicians and computer scientists.