Keynote Speakers

Michael Miller
Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education, College of Letters and Science

Jessica Mora '22, B.A. Sociology, 2022 Commencement Speaker, UCSB Transfer Admissions Counselor

Leila J. Rupp, Interim Anne and Michael Towbes Dean of the Graduate Division, Professor, Feminist Studies

Chandra J. Krintz, Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the UCSB, Graduate Council

Ricardo Delgado Solis, PhD student, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Racial Justice Fellow

Lesley Figueroa, PhD student, Bren School of Environmental

Samantha Fiallo, Ph.D., Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
"Searching the Globe for the Best Mitochondria"

Annette Hilton
"Turning on the Tap"

Jeff Milem, Jules Zimmer Dean and Professor, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Dr. Joe Incandela, Vice Chancellor for Research

Carla D’Antonio, Schuyler Professor of Environmental Studies

David Pellow, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies and Chair, Environmental Studies Program

Steve Gaines, Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Kelly Caylor, Professor and Director, Earth Research Institute and Geography

Brad Anderson, student, Masters of Environmental Science & Management, 2019

A makerspace for conservation science, and the perfect trifecta of academic, non-profit and private business partnership to revolutionize environmental problem solving.

View A Living Laboratory: The Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve

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Garry Mac Pherson, Vice Chancellor, Administrative Services

Renée Bahl, Associate Vice Chancellor, Design, Facilities & Safety Services

Dean Charles R. Hale, SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences

Ralph Archuleta, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Science

Ed Keller, Professor of Surface Processes, Environmental Geology, Dept. of Earth Science and the Environmental Studies Program

David Valentine, Professor of Earth Science and Biology, Dept. of Earth Science and Marine Science Institute, University Trustee, UC Santa Barbara Foundation, Academic Senate

“The College of Engineering at 50: Revisiting five decades of collaboration, innovation, and impact — and the people who have made it possible”

Dr. Rod C. Alferness, Dean and Richard A. Auhll Professor, College of Engineering

Dean Rod Alferness leads a photographic journey through five decades of UCSB engineering, from the beginnings of the School of Engineering to the world-class College of Engineering it has become. See the UCSB campus as it has evolved over the years, and meet the innovative faculty members whose research has improved the world and whose dedication to teaching has prepared generations of successful engineers.

View the interactive timeline and other 50th Anniversary details

“UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency; the West-Coast Headquarters for the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics)"

Rod C. Alferness, Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering

John Bowers, Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency; Deputy Director, American Institute for Manufacturing (AIM) Integrated Photonics; Kavli Professor of Nanotechnology, UC Santa Barbara

Industry and UCSB Panel Q&A

• Jeff Henley ’66, Vice Chairman of Oracle Corporation
• John Bowers, Director, IEE; Deputy Director, AIM Photonics
• Greg Fish ’05, CTO, Aurrion
• Near Margalit ’95 MS /’98 PhD, CTO/Head of Product Development, Silicon Photonics Group, Intel

Visit West Coast Headquarters of AIM Photonics website.

Jeff Henley, ’66 is vice chairman of Oracle Corporation. He served as Oracle’s chief financial officer and an executive vice president from 1991 to 2004, and has been a member of Oracle’s board of directors since 1995. Henley was chairman of Oracle from 2004 until 2014. He also serves on Oracle’s Executive Management Committee. Prior to joining Oracle in 1991, Henley served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Pacific Holding Company, a privately held company with diversified interests in manufacturing and real estate, and as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Saga Corporation, a multibillion-dollar food service company.

Henley is the Co-Chair of the Campaign for UC Santa Barbara and is Chair of the Director's Council and the Global Advisory Board for the Institute for Energy Efficiency. He also serves on the Dean’s Cabinet for the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Henley has a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA in finance from UCLA. Jeff and his wife, Judy, have made numerous celebrated philanthropic commitments to UCSB including the Henley Gate, and a transformative leadership investment--the largest gift to the university at the time—toward building Henley Hall, what will be the new home for the Institute for Energy Efficiency and the West Coast hub of AIM Photonics.

Greg Fish, ’05 is the Chief Technology Officer at Aurrion. Dr. Fish is considered a leading expert in the field of photonic integration with over 15 years of experience in the field of InP based Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). He began his work in this area while obtaining a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1994 and later a MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the UC Santa Barbara in 1999. He is an author/coauthor on over 40 papers in the field and has 10 patents. Dr. Fish was a cofounder and key leader at Agility Communications from 1999-2005, which was formed to commercialize tunable lasers based on PICs for telecommunications applications using technology pioneered at UCSB. This business was acquired by JDSU in late 2005 where it has grown to nearly $100M in revenue per year.

Near Margalit, ’95 MS, ’98 PhD ,is the head of product development and CTO for Intel’s Silicon Photonics Solution Group. Previous to Intel he was the CEO of Source Photonics where he grew the business from $30M annual revenues to over $200M, developing key industry enabling technologies in optical components. He has 20 years’ experience in optical systems and components. He was the founder and CTO for Zaffire Inc., a Kleiner Perkins funded optical networking startup. He has a PhD. from UC Santa Barbara in Opto-electronics, and a BS in Applied Physics from Caltech.