Walter Campbell (he/him/his) joined the Fung Institute team in June 2019. He has over 10 years of administrative and managerial experience leading cohesive teams, prioritizing opportunities for success and emphasizing both collaboration and solution-oriented objectives. Walter is responsible for supporting the Fung Institute with operations including administration, finance/purchasing, hiring, and remote pedagogy, including videoconferencing and… Read More »
Archives: People
Anita Balaraman
Project Management and Teaming
Anita is a technology product leader with more than 10 years of experience in building technology products that delight the customer both in the B2B and B2C domain. She is also an adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley, teaching and coaching hi-tech product management. She is currently the founder of an early stage ed-tech startup. Most… Read More »
Nima Shomali
Coaching for High Performing Teams, Speaker Series
Nima Shomali is the Global Head of Learning and Development at Plug and Play Tech Center, the world’s most active corporate innovation and venture capital firm. At UC Berkeley, he holds a dual position as Lecturer and Leadership Coach at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering Fung Institute and Fellow at the UC Berkeley Haas… Read More »
Leah Edwards
Coaching for High Performing Teams; R&D Tech Management
Leah is a serial co-founder and advisor to startups and investors. Beginning with her first company being acquired for $380 million within two years, she went on to sell several companies to major companies. Leah then directed the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she oversaw the development and… Read More »
Margaret Kolb
Communications for Engineering Leaders
Margaret Kolb joins the Fung Institute with a PhD in English Literature from UC Berkeley and a BA in abstract mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis. Before completing her PhD, she worked as a quantitative analyst in economic research at Bank of America. Find her writing on literary history in Victorian Studies, Configurations, and… Read More »
Claire Trias
Student Affairs & Capstone Advisor
Claire advises and supports 660+ MEng students, as well as administers the capstone project program, student programming, and engineering leadership courses. Prior to joining the Fung Institute in 2018, she worked on campus as an Assistant Director for Student Engagement at the Berkeley Law School for the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) for… Read More »
Lee Fleming
Faculty Director
Professor Lee Fleming joined the IEOR Department at UC Berkeley in Fall 2011 and is the Faculty Director of the Coleman Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership. He teaches engineering leadership and a capstone lab within the Masters of Engineering curriculum. His research applies machine learning and NLP techniques on large datasets with causal inference models… Read More »
Warren Reed
Executive Director at JPMorgan
Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala
Group President & Chief Engineering Officer, Intel Corporation
Dr. Venkata (Murthy) M. Renduchintala is group president of the Technology, Systems Architecture & Client Group and chief engineering officer at Intel Corporation. The group is responsible for aligning technology, engineering, product design and business direction to extend Intel’s strategy and speed execution across the client device and IoT segments — all core to growth… Read More »
Dione Rivera
Assistant Director of Career Development
Dione works with students and individuals to find the purpose and meaning of their careers by helping them sort through opportunities, try new ideas, and empower them to live “as a force for good!” She also uses her 10+ years of international counseling and consulting experience to help organizations grow and think through talent and… Read More »