Alumni Spotlights

Since its founding in 1962, over 35,000 students — and counting! — have graduated from the UC Davis College of Engineering. Our alumni have pursued careers in a wide variety of technical fields in industry, public service and academia, occupying positions of leadership and making a global difference.

Alumni Spotlights

Our alumni have become pioneers in their respective fields with achievements that have been far-reaching. Here are some outstanding examples of how our graduates are changing the world:

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Decoding Dementia

by Clémentine Sicard, UC Davis Development and Alumni Relations
June 09, 2026

Clinicians and engineers at the University of California, Davis, are collaborating on AI-driven tools to analyze vast digital archives of brain tissue scans — work that cannot be done at scale by humans alone — to better understand dementia and improve diagnosis and treatment.

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Renowned Alum Invests in Current and Future Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Success

by Jessica Heath
June 08, 2026

Chemical engineering graduate student success gains momentum with an investment by UC Davis alum Howard Stone and his wife, Valerie, to renovate graduate student office space and establish an endowment supporting collaboration and research.

Alum Recognized for Dissertation Solving Bottleneck in Ultrafast Communication Systems

by Matt Marcure
May 12, 2026

For innovative research on chips that can sustain high speeds without sacrificing power or signal amplification, a feat necessary for realizing the wireless networks of tomorrow, Phat Nguyen has received the Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Engineering at UC Davis.

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Alumni-Led Medtech Company Earns Startup of the Month from Comstock’s

by Russel Nichols, Comstock's Magazine
April 13, 2026

ImmobiCUFF, a medtech startup founded by five biomedical engineering alumni from the University of California, Davis, believes it has a solution designed to replace shoulder slings.

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Alum and Global Water Governance Leader Receives Stockholm Water Prize

by Alia Baidoun, Stockholm Water Foundation and College of Engineering Communications
March 19, 2026

Kaveh Madani, Ph.D. ’09 has been awarded the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, known as the “Nobel Prize of Water.” Madani is recognized for his global leadership in water security, climate adaptation and the water-energy-food nexus.