Launching moonshots is second nature to our faculty advisors.

Faculty Advisors

Key domain expertise

Who better equipped to help your startup succeed than the domain experts themselves? Our Faculty Advisors are all professors at UC Berkeley and masters in their respective fields, ready to offer guidance and domain expertise to best propel your startup towards its full potential.

Access to 30+ faculty members

SkyDeck makes warm introductions to Faculty Advisors on an individual basis, giving you access to your ever-expanding faculty network.

Continual lifelong partnerships

Some of our Faculty Advisors have gone on to establish an ongoing relationship with our graduated SkyTeams. At SkyDeck, we are always committed to providing you with the best network we can offer in order to help your startup thrive.

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. linkedin

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.

Chair, Faculty Advisor Group

EECS Professor. Co-founder, Cadence and Synopsys.

Pieter Abbeel linkedin

Pieter Abbeel

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Director, Berkeley Robot Learning Lab

Alice Agogino linkedin

Alice Agogino

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Co-founder, Squishy Robotics

Ana Arias linkedin

Ana Arias

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Krste Asanovic linkedin

Krste Asanovic

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Co-founder, SiFive

Trevor Darrell linkedin

Trevor Darrell

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Founding Co-Director, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), Berkeley Deep Drive (BDD)

Anca Dragan linkedin

Anca Dragan

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Director, Interact Lab

Jerome Engel linkedin

Jerome Engel

Professional Faculty, Haas School of Business 

Armando Fox linkedin

Armando Fox

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Ken Goldberg linkedin

Ken Goldberg

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Co-founder, Ambidextrous Labs

Amy E. Herr, Ph.D. linkedin

Amy E. Herr, Ph.D.

Professor of Bioengineering

Faculty Director, Bakar BioEngunity Hub

Regis Kelly linkedin

Regis Kelly

Professor, UCSF QB3 Quantitative Biosciences

Director, QB3 Institute

Kurt Keutzer linkedin

Kurt Keutzer

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Co-founder, DeepScale

Bob Knight linkedin

Bob Knight

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Co-founder, NeuroFocus, BrainGuard, and Stim Science.

Gregory La Blanc linkedin

Gregory La Blanc

Faculty Director,
Berkeley Fintech Institute

Michel Maharbiz linkedin

Michel Maharbiz

Professor of Bioengineering

Co-founder, Iota Biosciences

Rikky Muller linkedin

Rikky Muller

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Co-founder, Cortera Neurotechnologies

Dave Patterson linkedin

Dave Patterson

Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor

Turing Award Winner, 2017

Kris Pister linkedin

Kris Pister

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Michael Rape linkedin

Michael Rape

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

David Schaffer linkedin

David Schaffer

Professor of Bioengineering

Co-founder, 4D Molecular and Axent Biosciences

Raja Sengupta linkedin

Raja Sengupta

Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Co-founder, Responsible Robotics

Dawn Song linkedin

Dawn Song

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Co-founder, Oasis Labs

Costas Spanos linkedin

Costas Spanos

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Director, CITRIS

Vladimir Stojanovic linkedin

Vladimir Stojanovic

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Co-founder, Ayar Labs

Toby Stuart linkedin

Toby Stuart

Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Faculty Director, Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program.

Eli Yablonovitch linkedin

Eli Yablonovitch

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Director for Center of Energy Efficient Electronics Science

Allen Yang linkedin

Allen Yang

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Executive Director, FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality