Data Science and the High School Math Curriculum
Statement by academic staff at California 4-year colleges and universities
We write to emphasize that for students to be prepared for STEM and other quantitative majors in 4-year colleges, including data science, learning the Algebra II curriculum (see pp. 77-84 here) in high school is essential. This cannot be replaced with a high school statistics or data science course, due to the cumulative nature of mathematics.
In other words, students who take a data science course as an alternative to Algebra II in high school will be substantially underprepared for any STEM major in college, including data science, computer science, statistics, and engineering. Such students will need remedial math classes in college before they can even begin such majors, putting them at a considerable disadvantage (for summer opportunities and the ability to earn such a degree in 4 years) compared to peers who learn such material in high school. It is crucial that parents, teachers, and policy makers be aware of this fact.
Data literacy (e.g., spreadsheet skills and very basic statistical ideas) is a valuable life skill that should be acquired in high school. Elements of this can be naturally introduced in science labs and social studies courses, and it can be taken alongside a math class.
It is misleading, however, to promote data literacy and high-school level data science courses as a substitute for learning math content in preparation for college-level quantitative courses. Algebra, statistics, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus as topics in the high school math curriculum are not interchangeable.
The surge of interest in data science as a goal of college degrees and careers is reminiscent of the explosion of interest in computer science that began around 2010 and hasn’t let up since. In both cases, math is a foundational tool for such work in both academia and industry. The skills and knowledge acquired in high school math have a big impact on preparedness for these areas in college and beyond.
Topics in Algebra II such as logarithms, exponentials, and trigonometry are not relics of the Sputnik era or mere luxuries for future Math and engineering majors. They are foundational across work in quantitative fields including data science, neuroscience, machine learning, statistics, computational biology, and computer graphics.
Algebra II in high school is an essential prerequisite to later learn the further math, such as calculus, needed in much of the coursework for undergraduate data science and statistics majors at campuses of the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU) system, and private institutions such as Caltech and Stanford University. The devaluing of calculus in the promotion of data science (such as here and here) misrepresents its central role in machine learning and data science at large. It also goes against the American Statistical Association’s recommendation that all undergraduate statistics degrees require calculus and linear algebra.
Minimum general college admission requirements, which may not even include Algebra II (let alone more advanced topics), are generally not a reliable guide to the high school preparation needed for many quantitative college majors. The best sources on the preparation needed for these majors (including data science) are the college departments and college faculty in those fields. A summary of the core topics of high school math necessary for preparedness for 4-year college degrees in quantitative fields is given here; it is a synthesis of input from Stanford University faculty across all STEM fields, with an eye towards preparation at any college.
Claims that mathematical topics related to data science are inherently more engaging or more equitable than other areas of high school math (as is suggested on lines 1226-1239 of Chapter 5 of the California Math Framework) are incorrect. All areas of high school math are amenable to engagement, equitable practices, and good teaching methods, and can be motivated by modern real-life questions without sacrificing content. The most effective way to diversify the STEM pipeline and to prepare more students for a STEM career is for more students to learn the core math content in high school.
There is one final reason for the value of algebra and calculus in data science coursework: it provides broader preparation for a decades-long career. We are currently in the midst of a revolution in machine learning, and those who graduated 10 years ago didn’t need to know about deep neural networks (which rely on multivariable calculus and linear algebra). But with an education in that mathematics which has been taught to college students for generations, they can keep up with such innovations that are now changing all fields involving data.
No one knows what new ideas will be needed 10 years from now, but the data and AI revolutions of the life sciences and computer science in the past 15 years rest on the same solid foundation in algebra and calculus that has been the language for physical sciences for centuries. These fundamental tools will also remain the bedrock for future developments in data science. Students desiring to earn a 4-year college degree in data science, economics, or any STEM field must prioritize learning Algebra II in high school.
Signing the Statement:
Signatories are limited to academic staff at 4-year colleges and universities in California. To sign the statement, please click here (or alternatively, go to the "sign the statement" link at the top right corner of this page).
Contacts:
Moses Charikar moses@cs.stanford.edu
Brian Conrad bdconrad@stanford.edu
John Dabiri jodabiri@caltech.edu
Grace O'Connell g.oconnell@berkeley.edu
Signatories
Total: 442 as of February 3, 2023
Vibhanshu Abhishek, Associate Professor of Information System, University of California, Irvine
Nina Abramzon, Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Avidit Acharya, Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Political Economics in the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Ani Adhikari, Teaching Professor and Faculty Director of Pedagogy, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, University of California, Berkeley; Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University; Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley
John R Adler, Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Mina Aganagic, Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Adebisi Agboola, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Maneesh Agrawala, Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Mohammad Akbarpour, Associate professor, Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; Sloan research fellow
Anastassia N Alexandrova, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Jason Alicea, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Russ B Altman, Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science and (by courtesy) Computer Science, Stanford University; https://rbaltman.people.stanford.edu
Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Prabhanjan Ananth, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nima Anari, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Sarah F Anzia, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel P Arovas, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Salman Avestimehr, Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Southern California; Presidential PECASE Award from White House
Babak Ayazifar, Teaching Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; IEEE Education Society's Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, MIT Goodwin Medal for Outstanding Teaching.
Vineet Bafna, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego; Fellow, international Society of Computational Biology
Owen F Barrett, Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Itzhak Bars, Professor of Physics, University of Southern California; Fellow American Physical Society
Peter Bartlett, Professor, Computer Science and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Foundations of Data Science Institute, Fellow of ACM, IMS, AAS
Mohsen Bayati, Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Elizabeth Belding, Professor of Computer Science, Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara; ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Mikhail Belkin, Professor, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Tengiz Bibilashvili, Teaching Professor, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara; The U.S. Physics Team Academic Director (International Physics Olympiad)
Peter J Bickel, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley; Member, National Academy of Sciences
Breanna A Binder, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Simon Board, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Steve Boddeker, Adjunct Instructor, Physics Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Justin Bois, Teaching Professor, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Fellow of ACM and AMS, Member NAE, Gödel Prize, ACM Prize in Computing
Jorge Botana Alcalde, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Katherine L Bouman, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology; Co-Recipient if the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, IST Scientist of the Year Award, Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal
Renee Bowen, Professor, Department of Economics and School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego
Steven Boxer, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Timothy Bresnahan, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Loretta G Breuning, Professor Emerita, Dept of Management, California State University, East Bay
David E Broockman, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Frank Brown, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeremy I Bulow, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Aydin Buluc, Adjunct Assistant Professor, EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia J Cameron-Loyd, Lecturer, Economics, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University; PhD, Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Claudio Campagnari, Professor and Chair, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kerem Y Camsari, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara; Senior Member, IEEE
Emmanuel Candes, The Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University
Stefano Carpin, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Merced
Miguel Á Carreira-Perpiñán, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Merced
Santosh Chandrasekhar, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Merced
Moses Charikar, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Fellow of ACM, Simons Investigator, ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
Andrew E Charman, Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; former director, Research Science Institute
Sourav Chatterjee, Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Statistics, Stanford University; Line and Michel Loeve International Prize in Probability, Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Vaggos Chatziafratis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jennifer T Chayes, Associate Provost, Dean, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Information, Mathematics, and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley; John von Neumann Award of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Member, National Academy of Sciences, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gilyoung Cheong, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Christopher E. D. Chidsey, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
Marek Chrobak, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside
David Clague, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Judith G Cohen, Kate Van Nuys Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Sciences
Ronald C Cohen, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Cole, Associate Professor of Economics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Todd Coleman, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, Stanford University; IEEE Fellow; Chair of the National Academies Standing Committee on Biotechnology Capabilities and National Security Needs
Brian Conrad, Professor of Mathematics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Mathematics, Stanford University
Pamela C Cosman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Kevin P Costello, Associate Professor of Teaching, Mathematics, University of California, Riverside
John O Dabiri, Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology; MacArthur Fellow, NSF Alan T. Waterman Award, PECASE
Luca de Alfaro, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
John DeNero, Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, University of California, Berkeley
Amir Dembo, Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University
Yu Deng, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California; 2021 Sloan Fellow
Gerardo Dominguez, Professor of Physics, California State University San Marcos; Interdisciplinary scientist, NASA and NSF funded researcher
Xi Dong, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
David L Donoho, Anne T and Robert M Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Statistics, Stanford University; Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences; IEEE Kilby Medal in Signal Processing;
David Doty, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Songzi Du, Associate Professor, Economics, University of California, San Diego
John C Duchi, Associate Professor, Statistics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; Thomas and Polly Bredt Faculty Scholar
Sandrine Dudoit, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley; ASA and IMS Fellow
Shaddin Dughmi, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Paul Duguid, Adjunct Full Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Jozo Dujmovic, Professor, Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University; LSM IEEE
Zakir Durumeric, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
Alexei A Efros, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; ACM Prize in Computing, Guggenheim Fellow
Omer Egecioglu, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sheryl H Ehrman, Don Beall Dean, Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, San José State University; Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Association for Aerosol Research
Yakov Eliashberg, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University; Member of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
David Eppstein, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Steven N Evans, Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Mira Farka, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
Katalin Fejes Toth, Research Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Jerome A Feldman, Professor Emeritus, Electrical Enngineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Raisa E Feldman, Associate Professor of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter M Felker, Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Alexander Figotin, Professor, Mathematics Department, University of California, Irvine
Chelsea Finn, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Morris P Fiorina, Professor, Political Science, Stanford University
William S Fithian, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Matthias Flach, Professor of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Raphael Flauger, Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Alexandra Florea, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, University of California, Irvine
Carlos A Flores, Professor of Economics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Matthew Foreman, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Vasiliki Fouka, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Stanford University
Emily Fox, Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Jacob Fox, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University; Director of the Stanford Mathematics Research Center
Roger A Freedman, Teaching Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Roland W Freund, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Susan J Friedlander, Director, Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California; Fellow, AAAS, SIAM, AMS
Jason Gallicchio, Associate Professor of Physics, Harvey Mudd College
Wilfrid Gangbo, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Surya Ganguli, Associate Professor Applied Physics, Stanford University; Simons Investigator in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems
Bahman Gharesifard, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Frederic Gibou, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara; Sloan Fellow
John R Gilbert, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara; SIAM Fellow
Alexander Givental, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Founder of publishing house "Sumizdat" https://www.sumizdat.org/
Oleg Gleizer, Director of UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle (ORMC), Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; Author of math books for children, Math Adventures with ORMC, Level 1, from Optical Illusions to Fighting Dragons; Breaking Numbers into Parts.
Peter W Glynn, Thomas Ford Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University; National Academy of Engineering, John von Neumann Theory Prize
William A Goddard, Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Science
Ashish Goel, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Arek Goetz, Professor of Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Halina Goetz, Instructional Assistant Professor of Mathematics,, Chapman University; Director of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clinic Schmid College of Science and Technology
Leana Golubchik, Professor of Computer Science (and jointly Electrical & Computer Engineering), University of Southern California; Fellows of AAAS
Michael T Goodrich, DIstinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine; Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, and foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Anton Gorodetski, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Peter Graham, Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Chair of Physics for Undergraduate Education, Stanford University; Simons Investigator, New Horizons Prize from Breakthrough Foundation, DOE Early Career Award
Daniel Green, Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Jacob Greenstein, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside
Justin Grimmer, Professor, Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Benjamin Grinstein, Distinguished Professsor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Benedict H Gross, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, University of California, San Diego; Member National Academy of Sciences
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Professor, Political Science, Stanford University
Niels Grønbech-Jensen, Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis
Quanquan Gu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Carlos Guestrin, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Patrick Guidotti, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Rajesh K Gupta, Founding Director, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Rajiv Gupta, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, Riverside
Mark Haiman, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Hichem Hajaiej, Professor, Mathematics Department, California State University, Los Angeles
Bronwyn H Hall, Professor emerita of economics, University of California, Berkeley
Kambiz M Hamadani, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, San Marcos; California State University Faculty Innovation and Leadership Awardee
Kyle L Handley, Associate Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego
Brian Harvey, Teaching Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Hasenstaub, Associate Professor, Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
Joel Hass, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Babak Hassibi, Mose and Lilian Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Trevor J Hastie, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University; Member of the National Academy of Science
Burak Hatinoglu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Patrick Hayden, Professor, Department of Physics, Stanford University
Paul A Heidenreich, Professor and Vice Chair of Quality, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
Hamid Hezari, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Michael Hitrik, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
David A Hoffman, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; Professor Emeritus at U. Massachusetts, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Susan Holmes, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University; NSF VIGRE and RTG training grants in statistics. Fellow of the IMS.
Pamela Miles Homer, Professor of Marketing, College of Business, California State University, Long Beach
Han Hong, Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Chris Hoofnagle, Professor of Practice, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Gary T Horowitz, Physics Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Aaron B Hoskins, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno
Haiyan Huang, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Hutchings, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Lisa Hwang, Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Sungjin Im, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Merced
Josie Innamorato, Lecturer, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Eleny Ionel, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Sandy Irani, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Paata Ivanisvili, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Bob Jacobsen, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Paul G Jasien, Professor of Chemistry, California State University, San Marcos
Tara Javidi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding Faculty of Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Sajith A Jayasdinghe, Professor and Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University San Marcos
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine; AMS Satter prize, APS &AIP Dannie Heineman prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Plenary speaker 2022 ICM.
Ramesh Johari, Professor, Management Science and Engineering, and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Felipe Jornada, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Daniel Kane, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Anton N Kapustin, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
Alan C Kay, Full Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles; BA in Pure Math (U of Colo), PhD CS (U of Utah), Turing Award, Draper Prize, Kyoto Prize
Todd Kemp, Professor of Mathematics; Founding Faculty of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego; NSF CAREER Award, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Vedika Khemani, Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Changho Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced
Gene B Kim, Lecturer, Mathematics, Stanford University
Gloria S Kim, Asst Professor, Dept of Medicine, Stanford University; BS, MD
Robion C Kirby, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics Department, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Kiskis, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, University of California, Davis
Abel Klein, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Donald E Knuth, Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming, Stanford University; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering
Patrice Koehl, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Georgios Koutroulakis, Asst. Teaching Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Christos Kozyrakis, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University; ACM and IEEE Fellow
Katya Krupchyk, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Anna Krylov, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of Southern California; Elected member, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and Academia Europaea (foreign member).
Shrinivas R Kulkarni, Professor of Astronomy & Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Sciences & Fellow of the Royal Society, London
Arun Kumar, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering and Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Anshul Kundaje, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Andre Kundgen, Professor of Mathematics, California State University, San Marcos
Greg Kuperberg, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of California, Davis; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Dennis A Labutin, Associate Professor, Department of Marhematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nora Laiken, Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
Michel L Lapidus, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside; American Mathematician Society (AMS) Inaugural Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
Jean-Claude Latombe, Kumagai Professor, Emeritus, Computer Science, Stanford University
Codi Lazar, Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, California State University San Bernardino
Nick Leeper, Professor and Chief of Vascular Medicine, Stanford University
Matthew S Leifer, Assistant Professor of Physics, Chapman University
Benjamin Lev, Associate Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Dong Li, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Merced
Lei Li, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ethan Ligon, Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Aaron Lindenberg, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Everett A Lipman, Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tsu-Jae K Liu, Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award
Daniel Lokshtanov, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stefano Lonardi, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Vice Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside; Fellow of IEEE; Fellow of AAAS
Darrell D. E. Long, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz; Fellow IEEE, Fellow AAAS
John Lott, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Shachar Lovett, Associate professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Luk, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Shelly Lundberg, Leonard Broom Professor of Demography and Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chi H Mak, Professor of Chemistry and Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California
Josh Makower, Professor of Medicine & Bioengineering, Stanford University; SB in Mechanical Engineering - MIT, MD - NYU, MBA - Columbia University
Jitendra Malik, Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley; Member, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Fyodor Malikov, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
Eugenia Malinnikova, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Matthew Malkan, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
Vladimir Mandelshtam, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Fedor Manin, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher D Manning, Thomas M Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Andrew J Mannix, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Aneesh Manohar, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Ciprian Manolescu, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Jean-Luc Margot, Professor, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences; Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
Ivan Marinovic, Professor of accounting, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Donald Marolf, Professor, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Norman Matloff, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Jane Mauldon, Jane Mauldon, Associate Teaching Professor Emerita, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Nelson L Max, Distinguished Professor emeritus, University of California, Davis; ACM Fellow
Dina Mayzlin, Professor of Marketing, University of Southern California
Arya Mazumdar, Associate Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Rafe Mazzeo, Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University; Louise and Claude Rosenberg Jr. Fellow in Undergraduate Education; Faculty Director, Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies; Director, IAS/Park City Math Institute
Jon D McAuliffe, Professor (Adj.), Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley
John McGreevy, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Alison McQueen, Associate Professor, Political Science, Stanford University
Eckart Meiburg, Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara; Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Raghu Meka, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel F Melia, Professor emeritus, Rhetoric and Celtic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Assistant Dean, College of Letters and Science, UC Berkeley
David A Meyer, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Daniele Micciancio, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego; IACR Fellow, Sloan Fellow
Milena Mihail, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Diba Mirza, Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Parviz Moin, Professor of Mechanical Enngineering, Stanford University; Member, National Academy of Science and National Academy of Engineering
Andrea Montanari, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Statistics, Stanford University; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
James E Moore, Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Public Policy, Viterbi School of Engineering, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California; Director, Transportation Engineering Program
Dana B Mukamel, Professor, Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, University of California, Irvine; Health Economist
Rikky Muller, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Deirdre K Mulligan, Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Maxwell Murphey, Adjunct Faculty, Liberal Arts, Laguna College of Art & Design
Hans-Georg Müller, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
Walid Najjar, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside; IEEE and AAAS Fellow
Clayton Nall, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara; Affiliate, Department of Geography
Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Harry N Nelson, Professor, Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jelani Nelson, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; Founder of AddisCoder, Co-chair of JamCoders, CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award
Kaixuan Ni, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Grace O'Connell, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Sung-Jin Oh, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Lee E Ohanian, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economics Theory.
Bruno A Olshausen, Profesor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley
Martin Olsson, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Antonio Ortega, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
Rafail Ostrovsky, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, IACR
Winston Ou, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Scripps College
Art B Owen, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University
John D Owens, Child Family Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis
Daphna Oyserman, Dean's Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California
yusuf Ozturk, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean, College of Engineering, San Diego State University
Oliver M O’Reilly, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Former Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate
Jun Pan, Lecturer, Department of Physics & Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dana Paquin, Professor of Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University; Visiting Professor and Co-Director of SOAR, Stanford University; Former Director of the Stanford Math Circle
Beresford N Parlett, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; fellow of SIAM
David A Patterson, Professor, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley; ACM A.M. Turing Award, NAE Charles Draper Prize
Alexander Paulin, Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Distinguished Teaching Award UC Berkeley
Margaret E Peters, Chair, Global Studies and Associate Professor, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Linda R Petzold, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara; Member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
Sterl Phinney, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology
Niles A Pierce, Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology; Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Guggenheim Fellow
Samuel D Pimentel, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Kristofer Pister, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Alden F Pixley, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Harvey Mudd College
Jennifer Schwartz Poehlmann, Senior Lecturer of Chemistry and Introductory Course Coordinator, Stanford University
Mason A Porter, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Maxime G Pouokam, Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
Lauren Prather, Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego
Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Fritz B Prinz, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Charles C Pugh, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics Department, University of California, Berkeley
Amber Puha, Chair and Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University, San Marcos; 2009, Greater San Diego Area Mathematics Council Outstanding Post Secondary Mathematics Teacher
Elizabeth Purdom, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley; Member of the Center for Computational Biology and the Biostatistics Graduate Group
Fernando Pérez, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley; ACM Software System Award, FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Antonio Ragenl, Bing Professor of Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology & Economics, California Institute of Technology
Valerie A Ramey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Suraj Rampure, Lecturer, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Gireeja Ranade, Assistant Teaching Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Satish Rao, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; Fellow of ACM, Fulkerson Prize
Chinya V Ravishankar, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, Riverside
Benjamin Recht, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Emil Reisler, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Hanna Reisler, University Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Southern California; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
John A Rice, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Ben Richert, Professor and Chair, Mathematics Department, California State Polytechnic University, SLO
Marc A Rieffel, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Eric S Roberts, Professor of Computer Science, emeritus, Stanford University; ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Joseph P Romano, Professor of Statistics and Economics, Stanford University
Allyson C Rosen, Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Stanford University School of Medicine; Cognitive Neuroscientist
Grant M Rotskoff, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
Stuart J Russell, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; Fellow of AAAS, ACM, AAAI; author of the standard AI textbook
Florin Rusu, Associate professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, Merced
Qing Ryan, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Lenya Ryzhik, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Chris Ré, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
Donald Saari, Distinguished Research Professor, Mathematics and Economics, University of California, Irvine; Member, National Academy of Sciences, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign member Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Chiara Sabatti, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Statistics, Stanford University
Amir Safavi-Naeini, Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University
Barna Saha, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego; PECASE
Amit Sahai, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Fellow of the ACM and IACR; Simons Investigator, Held Prize
Anant Sahai, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Mehran Sahami, James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor of Engineering, Professor (Teaching) and Associate Chair for Education in Computer Science, Stanford University
Ertan Salik, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; ..
Alberto Salleo, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Richard Salmon, Professor Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Alberto L Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Chaired Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Juan G Santiago, Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering., Stanford University; Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, and Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Lawrence Saul, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Bohdan Schatschneider, Associate Professor of Chemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Stefano Schiavon, Associate Professor. Department of Architecture and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Marc E Schiler, Professor of Architecture, University of Southern California
Michael H Schmidt, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University San Marcos
Mark J Schnitzer, Professor, Departments of Applied Physics & Biology, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Craig Schroeder, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside
Ivan Schuller, Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Leonard J Schulman, Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology; Fellow, SIAM
Kenneth A Schultz, Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Albert Schwarz, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics (Emeritus), University of California, Davis; AMS Fellow
Charles T Sebens, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Carlo H Sequin, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; Fellow of the ACM; Fellow of IEEE
Allen W Shafter, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, San Diego State University
Nigam Shah, Professor of Medicine, and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University; Chief Data Scientist, Stanford Healthcare
Eric S Shaqfeh, Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University
Shahed Sharif, Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University, San Marcos
Romyar T Sharifi, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; Fellow of the AMS
Scott Shenker, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Shulman, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of San Diego
Tom Shutt, Professor of Particle and Particle Astrophysics, SLAC, Stanford University
Krishna Sigdel, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Barry Simon, IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology; AMS Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, APS/AIP Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathematical Physics, US National Academy of Sciences
Alistair J Sinclair, Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; Gödel Prize, Fulkerson Prize, ACM Fellow
Ambuj K Singh, Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jennifer L Skeem, Professor of Public Policy & Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
Michael B Sklar, Stein Fellow, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Kazumi Slott, Lecturer, Computer Science and Information Systems, California State University, San Marcos
Alex R Small, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Fellow, Optical Society of Southern California
Desmond J Smith, Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert M Solovay, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; Member National Academy of Science
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Associate Professor and Andrew & Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair, University of Southern California; Packard & Sloan Fellow
Fang Song, Computer Science, Portland State University
Alexander Soshnikov, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Kannan Soundararajan, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Manu Sridharan, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside
Nikhi Srivastava, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; SIAM Polya Prize, NAS Held Prize, AMS Foias Prize
Alex Stamos, Director, Stanford Internet Observatory and Lecturer in Computer Science, Stanford University
Mark Stamp, Professor, Computer Science, San Jose State University; PhD in math, author of a machine learning textbook
Zvezdelina E Stankova, Teaching Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Alice T Schafer Prize, Henry L Alder Award and Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching
Philip B Stark, Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Kimberly Stillmaker, Assistant Professor, Civil and Geomatics Engineering, California State University, Fresno; Professional Engineer
Ion Stoica, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Professor at UC Berkeley for over 20 years, ranked 20th in the list of "Top Computer Scientists" in the world (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science), co-founder of Databricks (private, $32B valuation), Anyscale (private, $1B valuation), and Conviva.
Jianwen Su, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael W Suman, Senior Continuing Lecturer in Communication, University of California, Los Angeles
Fengzhu Sun, Professor, Quantitative and Computational Biology Department, University of Southern California
Song Sun, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Yizhou Sun, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel M Tartakovsky, Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Richard Taylor, Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in Humanities & Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University; Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Constantin Teleman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
John Terning, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis
Abigail Thompson, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Robert Tibshirani, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Claire Tomlin, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; Member, National Academy of Engineering; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Behrouz Touri, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego
Stephen Tsui, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, California State University San Marcos
Aaron D Tward, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
Johan Ugander, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Jeffrey D Ullman, S. W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (emeritus), Stanford University; ACM Turing Award, IEEE von Neumann Medal, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
David A Van Valen, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology; MD, PhD, Moore Inventor Fellow
Michael H Vartanian, Lecturer, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, San Jose State University; PhD
Katya N Vasilaky, Assistant Professor of Economics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Andras Vasy, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bocher Prize of the American Mathematical Society
Vijay V Vazirani, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Irvine; Guggenheim Fellow
Ross Venook, Senior Lecturer, Bioengineering, Stanford University
Jeff Viaclovsky, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine; Fellow of the AMS
Victor Vianu, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego; ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Eric Vigoda, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara; Fellow of AMS, Fulkerson Prize
Michael Visser, Professor of Economics, Sonoma State University
Andrew J Viterbi, Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego; Member, National Academies of Science and Engineering. National Medal of Science Award
Jan Vondrak, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Elisabeth A Wade, Dean, School of Science and Technology, Sonoma State University
Laura Waller, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth M Walsh, Professor, Criminal Justice Studies, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, San Francisco State University; Distinguished faculty awards for teaching
Jane-Ling Wang, Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
William Wang, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yu-Xiang Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yusu Wang, Professor, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Michael Waterman, Professor, Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California; Member NAS and NAE
Nicholas C Weaver, Lecturer, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Rachel Webb, NSF Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Mark I Weinstein, Associate Professor Emeritus, Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Steven R White, Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine; Member, National Academy of Sciences
Wojciech Wieczorek, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Curt F Wittig, Paul A.Miller Professor of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California
Jesse Wolfson, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Chongqi Wu, Professor and coordinator, MS in Business Analytics, California State University East Bay
Hung-Hsi Wu, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Yiqing Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Eli Yablonovitch, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley; Isaac Newton Medal of the UK Institute of Physics
Lisa Yan, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Xifeng Yan, Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Phillip C Yang, Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Cardiothoracic MRI Program and Cardiovascular Stem Cell Laboratory
Tao Yang, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Deborah Yelon, Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego
Soojin Yi, Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara; AAAS Fellow
Lexing Ying, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Rika Yoshi, Professor of Information and Computer Science, California State University, San Marcos
Bin Yu, Professor in Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; Member of National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Former President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Clare C Yu, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Physical Society
Jin Yu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine
Yisong Yue, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Michael Zaletel, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; 2022 Sloan Fellow
Zhenghe Zhang, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Riverside
Rena Zieve, Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis; past member, UC Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools
Andrej Zlatos, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego; Sloan Fellow, Simons Fellow
Ben Zuckerman, Professor of Physics & Astronomy Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles
Konstantin Zuev, Teaching Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology; Information and Data Science Option Representative, Northrop Grumman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, ASCIT Teaching Award
Maciej Zworski, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley