University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Indira Saladi

Intellectual property attorney

Endowed UI scholarship

Lon Ballard

China-based CEO

Spira4u Co.

Jon Creyts

Managing director

Rocky Mountain Institute

Brian Bock

VP, sales/marketing

Dukane Precast Inc.

Laura Niklason

Yale professor

Alumni Achievement Award

Gennaro Marino

President

Marino Engineering

Bob Wilson

Data science director

Mammoth Media

Chris George

Chicago attorney

Intellectual property

Gary Brierley

President

Doctor Mole, Inc.

Kevin Wu

Director of dynamics

SpaceX

Terence Hung

Computational engineering

Rolls-Royce Singapore

Gala Wind

Research scientist

Joined NASA in 2002

Vinay Hiremath

Founder/head of engineering

Loom, San Francisco

Andy Lowery

CEO, RealWear

U.S. Navy veteran

Paul Koch

Chicago-based consultant

Distinguished Alumni Award

Jim Solari

Led G&W Electric Co.

Distinguished Alumni Award

Feniosky Peña-Mora

NYC commissioner

Design/Construction Dept.

Mohammad R. Haghighat

Intel Fellow

Intel Corp.

Vikram Jandhyala

VP, innovation strategy

University of Washington

Robert Gallo

Mechanical engineering prof.

George Mason University

Jerry Marcyk

Director/components research

Intel (retired)

Bruce Drolen

Senior technical fellow

37 years at Boeing

Rahul Panat

Engineering professor

Carnegie Mellon

Eysha Powers

Senior software engineer

IBM