Rich Lyons began his term as the 12th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, on July 1, 2024, as the first undergraduate alum to serve as chancellor, receiving his B.S. degree from Berkeley in 1982. He returned to Berkeley in 1993, joining the faculty after earning his Ph.D. in economics from MIT and following six years on the faculty at Columbia University. Prior to serving as chancellor, Rich served as both the dean of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and, as chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer, led the development and expansion of innovation and entrepreneurship campuswide.

Professor Arias received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2001. Prior to that, she received her master and bachelor degrees in Physics from the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil in 1997 and 1995 respectively. She joined the University of California, Berkeley in January of 2011. Prof. Arias was the manager of the Printed Electronic Devices Area and a member of research staff at PARC, a Xerox Company. She went to PARC, in 2003, from Plastic Logic in Cambridge, UK where she led the semiconductor group. Her research focuses on the use of electronic materials processed from solution in flexible electronic systems. She uses printing techniques to fabricate flexible large area electronic devices and sensors.

Ken Goldberg teaches and supervises research in Robotics, Automation, and New Media. He is professor of industrial engineering and operations research, with secondary appointments in EECS, the School of Information, art practice, and the UCSF department of radiation oncology. Goldberg and his co-authors have published over 200 peer-reviewed technical papers on algorithms for robotics, automation, and social information filtering. He holds eight U.S. patents and was awarded the Presidential Faculty Fellowship by President Clinton in 1995, the National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1994, the Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award in 2000, and was elected IEEE Fellow in 2005.

Marco Lobba obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and was a student in the labs of Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna and Matthew Francis, Emeritus Chair of the Berkeley Department of Chemistry. With his educational foundation rooted at the intersection of chemistry and molecular biology, Dr. Lobba co-founded CatenaBio to address the pressing challenge of delivering targeted therapeutics. He has leveraged many of the resources available in the UC Berkeley startup ecosystem to aid in building Catena, including Bakar Labs, the Skydeck HotDesk program, and the amazing campus resources and facilities. Dr. Lobba's expertise in protein conjugation has helped advance innovative treatments, such as multi-payload conjugates (MPCs), CRISPR-based editors, and cell-based therapies. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Pomona College.