Chairs, Professorships, and Faculty Scholars

Chairs

Faculty	Named Chairs
Basar, M. Tamer	Swanlund Endowed Chair
Coleman, James J.	Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Feng, Milton	Nick Holonyak, Jr. Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hajek, Bruce	Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Endowed Chair in Engineering
Holonyak, Nick Jr.	John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics (funded by the Sony Corporation)
Hwu, Wen-Mei	AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jin, Jianming	Y. T. Lo Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krein, Philip T.	Grainger Endowed Director's Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics (funded by The Grainger Foundation)
Sauer, Peter W.	W. W. Grainger Chair in Electrical Engineering (funded by The Grainger Foundation)

Professorships

Faculty	Professorship
Adesida, Ilesanmi	Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering
Ahuja, Narendra	Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering
Bashir, Rashid	Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
Blahut, Richard E.	Henry Magnuski Endowed Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boppart, Stephen A.	Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
Cangellaris, Andreas C.	M. E. Van Valkenburg Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Choquette, Kent D.	Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
Chuang, S. L.	Robert P. MacClinchie Distinguished Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Eden, Gary	Gilmore Family Endowed Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Huang, Thomas S.	William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Iyer, Ravi	George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Leburton, Jean-Pierre	Gregory Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
O'Brien, William D.	Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering
Overbye, Thomas J.	Fox Family Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rao, N. Narayana	Edward C. Jordan Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sanders, William H.	Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering
Wah, Benjamin	Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Srikant, Rayadurgam	Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Faculty Scholars

The University Scholars program was designed to attract and keep outstanding faculty members at the University of Illinois. Faculty Scholars are awarded to senior assistant professors, associate professors, and junior full professors who are exhibiting exceptional achievement and who are the highest priority for support and retention.

Faculty	Named Faculty Scholars
Patel, Sanjay	Sony Faculty Scholar

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