Alumni

Francis Lee graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1974. In 1998, after two decades in industry, Lee became CEO of Synaptics, a position he held until 2009.

Babak Taheri is the CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Silvaco Group.

Dr. Xi Wang is Marvell’s Vice President of Product Marketing, Optical Connectivity.

Manish Mamidanna is currently an RF/Microwave/Millimeter Wave R&D Hardware engineer at Keysight Technologies, a U.S. technology company that specializes in electronic test and measurement solutions.

Mahnoosh Alizadeh obtained her Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2014.

Erkin Sidick obtained his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, with an emphasis on nonlinear optics in 1995 from UC Davis.

Giovonnae (Vonnie) Anderson is the first African-American woman with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at a major institution. She obtained her Ph.D. at UC Davis in 1979 for her dissertation on “The Effect of Non-Uniform Channel Doping on Microwave Logic Devices“.

Ying Y. Tai is a Senior Director in Non-Volatile Engineering at Micron Technology, where he is leading the innovation effort in latest hardware and software architectures for NVM-based memory and storage systems.

Currently, the research that I am most excited about is the ongoing development of 6G.

Carl received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis.