Dean's Leadership Society
Members of the Dean’s Leadership Society are visionaries and change-makers. They support Columbia Engineering in transformative ways, enabling current and future students—some of the brightest minds in engineering—to go forth and change the world.
Alumni, parents, and friends of Columbia Engineering become annual members of the Dean's Leadership Society by supporting the School and its priorities with cumulative giving of $1,000 or more in the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
Members of the Classes of 2015 to 2025 may join the Dean’s Leadership Society at the Pioneer level by supporting, cumulatively, at least $100 per year upon graduating.
Donor Recognition
Columbia Engineering is pleased to recognize the alumni and donors who have supported the School in 2022-2023 at a leadership level.
Dean’s Circle: $25,000 or more
| William Ackman Deedra Bakish P: ’22SEAS Robert Bakish ’85SEAS, ’89BUS, P: ’22SEAS Alexandre Behring Leonard Blavatnik ’81SEAS Carlo Bonomi P: ’21SEAS Thomas Caulfield ’82SEAS, ’84SEAS, ’86SEAS Adrian Cheng Jie Chen ’95SEAS Kathy Chong P: ’26CC Thomas Chong ’92SEAS, P: ’26CC Steven Chu ’94SEAS, ’03BUS, P: ’25SEAS Susan Clare ’72BC, ’75BUS, ’76PH Catherine Commisso P: ’06SEAS Rocco Commisso ’71SEAS, ’75BUS, P: ’06SEAS Monique Cusson P: ’23CC Allan Cytryn ’72SEAS, ’75GSAPP, ’79SEAS, P: ’06CC Constantine Dakolias ’89SEAS, P: ’23CC Ziad Dalloul ’88SEAS, P: ’22SEAS Jieyu Ding P: ’25SEAS Donna Down P: ’05CC James Down ’73SEAS, P: ’05CC Shawn Edwards ’90SEAS, ’95SEAS, P: ’17SEAS Gary Elzweig ’77SEAS, P: ’25CC Sandra Eng-Caulfield ’84SEAS, ’86SEAS, ’87SEAS Fenny Francisca P: ’25SEAS Angeliki Frangou ’88SEAS Jeffrey Franklin ’68SEAS Linda Franklin Andrew Gilbert ’91SEAS Bruce Goldsmith P: ’20SEAS Xiang-Dong Edward Guo P: ’19SEAS, ’19CC, ’23SEAS Rishi Gupta ’95SEAS, ’03NI Deborah Haight ’00SEAS Anne Hall P: ’18SEAS Michael Hall ’84CC, ’85SEAS, P: ’18SEAS Helen He Kristina Holst ’04SEAS Gerald Horkan ’87SEAS Keiko Horkan H. Hsia ’73SEAS, ’74SEAS, ’76GSAS, P: ’02CC, ’10BUS Shirley Hsia P: ’02CC, ’10BUS Ling Huang P: ’21SEAS Tao Huang ’97SEAS, ’98SEAS, ’99SEAS Karen Izzo Ralph Izzo ’78SEAS, ’79SEAS, ’81SEAS |
Bahram Jalali ’86SEAS, ’87SEAS, ’89SEAS Mojgan Jalali George Jiang P: ’19CC, ’23SEAS Tianyi Jiang ’04SEAS Jianhua Ji P: ’20SEAS Carol Kaganov Efrem Kamen ’01CC Mabel Kao Atul Khanna ’83SEAS Harvey Kibel ’59SEAS Isabel Kibel Min Kim ’82SEAS, ’86BUS Sooyeon Kim P: ’19SEAS, ’25SEAS Jean Kung P: ’23SEAS Peter Kuo Oliver Kwan Katharynn Lee '08SEAS Woohyun Lee P: ’19SEAS, ’25SEAS Lei Liang P: ’19SEAS, ’19CC, ’23SEAS James Liao P: ’24CC Kaitlyn Liao Raymond Liao ’01SEAS, ’03SEAS Shen Li ’02SEAS Lei Liu ’00SEAS Yang Liu ’02SEAS Ming Maa Dennis Mahoney ’88SEAS, P: ’19CC Karen Mahoney ’88CC, P: ’19CC Darren Manelski ’89SEAS Dirk Manelski ’96SEAS, P: ’22SEAS, ’25SEAS Suzanne Manelski P: ’22SEAS, ’25SEAS Sai Mao ’14SEAS Zhenhua Mao P: ’14SEAS, ’22CC Mahendra Mehta P: ’83SEAS Horace Meng ’95SEAS, P: ’20SEAS Jamie Monovoukas P: ’22CC, ’26CC Yiannis Monovoukas ’84SEAS, P: ’22CC, ’26CC Nathalia Napitupulu Thiery ’02SEAS and Gregory Aymeric Thiery Edmond Ng ’96SEAS, P: ’23CC, ’26CC Bill Nie Jonathan Oringer ’99SEAS Edward Paik ’91SEAS, ’96BUS, P: ’22SEAS, ’24CC Naxin Paik ’91SEAS, ’96SEAS, P: ’22SEAS, ’24CC Peter Parker ’72SEAS, ’74SEAS Daniele Pelessone P: ’16SEAS, ’17SEAS, ’18SEAS, ’21SEAS, ’24SEAS Chatchai Piyasombatkul ’82SEAS, P: ’11SEAS, ’12SEAS, ’13SEAS, ’14SEAS, ’25SEAS Kanatuch Piyasombatkul ’13SEAS, ’14SEAS |
Vipas Oak Piyasombatkul ’11SEAS, ’12SEAS Janet Post Richard Post ’73GSAS Mark Rabkin Paulina Ribadeneyra P: ’17SEAS James Scapa ’78SEAS Sally Scapa Ana Sentmenat P: ’21SEAS Patcharin Sethbhakdi P: ’22SEAS, ’22CC, ’24SEAS Pirapol Sethbhakdi P: ’22SEAS, ’22CC, ’24SEAS Theresa Sgammato ’84SEAS, P: ’16SEAS, ’17SEAS, ’18SEAS, ’21SEAS, ’24SEAS Dineshchandra Shah ’65GSAS Salina Shah Joanne Sha Alex Shender ’98SEAS, ’00SEAS Pauline Shender ’99BC Devendra Shrotri ’06BUS Sudhir Shrotri ’94SEAS, ’98SEAS, ’04BUS, P: ’25SEAS Cathy Shu P: ’23CC, ’26CC Petcharat Siriratusdorn P: ’24SEAS Ronny Soemitro ’93SEAS, ’95SIPA, P: ’25SEAS Richard Song ’92SEAS Janut Suchato P: ’24SEAS Wenbin Sun P: ’15SEAS William Sun ’15SEAS Hao Tang P: ’24SEAS Hua Tang P: ’19CC, ’23SEAS James Tasi ’61SEAS Bing Wang Feng-Ming Wang ’89SEAS, ’91SEAS, P: ’23SEAS Hua Wang ’00SEAS, ’06SEAS Lauren Wong ’76SEAS, P: ’15CC Weiming Wu ’02SEAS Du Xingmei Jennifer Yu ’03SEAS Mingdong Zhang P: ’21SEAS Wenyuan Zhang ’00SEAS Yonghong Zhang Bing Zhao ’92SEAS, ’94SEAS Donglei Zhou ’00SEAS |
Visionary: $10,000 to $24,999
| Dimitris Anastassiou P: ’18CC, ’25SEAS Hyun Bae ’90SEAS Da-Hsien Bao P: ’03SEAS Liung Chu Bao ’86SEAS, P: ’03SEAS Loubna Berrada Allam P: ’22SEAS Seamus Carroll ’82SEAS Bert Chan ’94SEAS Millard Chan ’99BUS Stanley Chao ’87SEAS Alek Chen ’76SEAS Fusui Cheng P: ’22SEAS Steve Cheng ’89SEAS, ’95BUS Timothy Chen ’96SEAS Shivrat Chhabra ’14SEAS Kin Chung ’79SEAS, P: ’99SEAS, ’00SEAS Wen Chung ’68SEAS, P: ’88SEAS, ’89SEAS Yiwei Chu P: ’23SEAS Yan Dai ’99CC Jean Francois Ducrest P: ’22SEAS Nathalie Ducrest P: ’22SEAS Trinh Du P: ’25SEAS Mounir El Majidi P: ’22SEAS Kylie Ellison Annie Fang P: ’24SEAS Susan Flanagan ’84SEAS George Geh P: ’24SEAS Ethelyn Geschwind ’84SEAS Nicholas Gianakouros ’91CC, ’92GSAS Patricia Green ’62BC, ’63TC, P: ’93LAW Gang Gu ’86SEAS, P: ’18CC, ’21GS Janice Gu P: ’18CC, ’21GS Ali Gulcelik P: ’23SEAS, ’25CC Selin Gülçelik P: ’23SEAS, ’25CC Howard Hahn P: ’24SEAS Patricia Haines Jun Hou ’00SEAS, ’06BUS Ami Jain |
Amit Jain ’90SEAS |
Farvah Shah P: ’14SEAS Imran Shah ’84SEAS, ’86SEAS, P: ’14SEAS Yiting Shen ’01SEAS, ’02SEAS Alissa Shipper ’96SEAS George So ’73SEAS, ’78BUS, P: ’20BUS Florian Solzbacher George Stern ’58CC, ’59SEAS Margaret Sung P: ’22SEAS, ’24CC Hitoshi Tanaka ’63SEAS, ’65SEAS, ’76SEAS Rumi Tanaka David Torres ’00SEAS Jessica Tsoong ’08SEAS Alireza Vaseghi ’03SEAS Cheng Wang ’02SEAS Frank Wang ’96SEAS, P: ’24CC Jian Wang P: ’20BUS, ’22SEAS Stephen Wang ’06SEAS David Weinreich ’93SEAS John White ’68SEAS, ’71GSAS, P: ’04CC Marie Wieck ’83SEAS Elaine Wong P: ’25SEAS Marilyn Wright P: ’23SEAS Stephen Wright ’88SEAS, P: ’23SEAS Grace Wu ’00SEAS Iris Yao P: ’24SEAS Jung Hyun Yoo P: ’24SEAS Xiaoqian Zhang ’00CC Ya-Qin Zhang P: ’20BUS, ’22SEAS Qiang Zhao P: ’23SEAS Jun-Fei Zheng P: ’24SEAS Xiaowei Zheng ’97SIPA, P: ’23SEAS, ’25SEAS |
Innovator: $5,000 to $9,999
| Anthony Anderson ’97SEAS Paul Antonios ’13SEAS Wajdi Atallah ’87SEAS, ’88SEAS Andrew Au ’70SEAS, ’73BUS Jamey Barbas ’83SEAS Gina Bocra William Bocra ’99SEAS, ’00CC, ’03LAW Gregory Bondick P: ’24SEAS Ann Borowiec P: ’12CC, ’23BUS Stanley Borowiec ’76SEAS, ’77SEAS, P: ’12CC, ’23BUS Anita Bose ’90CC, ’95PH, ’95BUS Marjorie Brennan P: ’21SEAS Michael Brennan P: ’21SEAS Fang-Ru Chang P: ’16CC, ’19CC Owen Chang ’82SEAS Shih-Fu Chang P: ’16CC, ’19CC Augie Cheh ’89SEAS, ’91BUS Cary Chen ’02BUS Jing Chen ’96SEAS Joshua Chern ’95SEAS, P: ’26SEAS Joseph Chin ’89SEAS Paul Chiu ’85SEAS, ’94BUS, P: ’20CC, ’21SEAS David Cho ’20CC, ’22SEAS Rachel Chou Young ’90SEAS Sabina Choudhry P: ’22SEAS, ’23SEAS, ’27SEAS Vikrant Choudhry P: ’22SEAS, ’23SEAS, ’27SEAS Soojin Chung P: ’23SEAS Tae Chung ’97SEAS Jin Chun ’99SEAS Gisela Cowan-Bondick P: ’24SEAS Roland DaCosta P: ’23SEAS, ’25SEAS Jeffrey Davidson ’70SEAS Peter del Valle ’54CC, ’55SEAS, ’56SEAS Ying Deng P: ’22SEAS Mynoon Doro ’73SEAS Adnan Durrani ’81SEAS, P: ’15SEAS, ’17SIPA, ’21LAW Nada Elreedy P: ’23SEAS, ’25SEAS William Engelbrecht ’97SEAS, ’97CC Darrell Farlough ’89SEAS Milton Feng ’73SEAS Elizabeth Foley Paula Fontenla-Chapman ’86SEAS, P: ’23CC Benjamin Fried ’88CC, P: ’24CC, ’26CC Maya Furumoto Mario Gabelli ’67BUS, P: ’97TC, ’09BUS, ’15GS, ’16BUS, ’20PS Ilya Gaysinskiy ’99SEAS Benjamin Geschwind David Gifford ’64SEAS Leonard Goodman ’85SEAS Michael Green ’64SEAS Cheng-en Guo P: ’24SEAS |
Sandra Gurijala ’01SEAS Ralph Haines ’69SEAS Melanie Haroun P: ’26SEAS Raymond Haroun ’89SEAS, ’94PS, P: ’26SEAS Thinh Ha ’92SEAS Joshua Hauser ’66SEAS, ’68SEAS, P: ’96SOA Judith Hauser P: ’96SOA H. Hee ’02SEAS Edward Heffner ’68SEAS, P: ’02BC, ’04SW, ’06CC, ’09BUS, ’12BUS Sanford Heffner ’09BUS Hongguo He James Hong Julia Hong ’00SEAS, ’06BUS Winston Hsu ’06SEAS, ’07SEAS Jing Huang ’02SEAS Shu-Chen Huang P: ’23CC, ’25CC Yale Huang ’05SEAS Bruce Jacobs ’72CC, ’73SEAS Jonathan Kan ’10SEAS, ’13SEAS Keren Kazis-Phillips P: ’23SEAS Linda Keck David Kim ’90SEAS, ’17BUS Eugenia Kin ’73SEAS, P: ’06PS Liza Ko Stanley Ko ’99BUS, P: ’23CC, ’25CC Jay Krishnamurthy P: ’20SEAS, ’23SEAS Renu Krishnamurthy P: ’20SEAS, ’23SEAS Kai Kuo ’96SEAS James Lai ’07SEAS Wanyi Lai Chester Lee ’70SEAS, ’74BUS, P: ’06SEAS David Lee ’74SEAS Diana Lee P: ’06SEAS Wenke Lee ’97SEAS, ’99SEAS William Lee ’74SEAS, ’75GSAS, ’79GSAS, ’81GSAS Micah Lemonik ’03SEAS Chun Lin ’75SEAS, ’76SEAS Chunjie Lin P: ’20SEAS Kuo-Win Liu ’69SEAS Xuan Li P: ’22SEAS Heather Lockhart ’08SEAS Anna Loukissa ’88BC, P: ’21SEAS Gaurav Makhija ’96SEAS Mike Ma ’03GSAS Joy Metalios ’90SEAS, P: ’23CC Steve Metalios ’89CC, P: ’23CC Geoffroy Moreau ’07SEAS Unni Narayanan ’92SEAS, P: ’20CC Usha Narayanan P: ’20CC Sangik Oh ’91SEAS, P: ’23SEAS Giovanni Ortuno P: ’14SEAS, ’16SEAS, ’24SEAS Maria Paoli ’88GSAPP, P: ’15SEAS, ’17SIPA, ’21LAW |
Brad Phillips P: ’23SEAS Vincent Piau ’03SEAS Joe-Yau Pong ’00SEAS Peter Puleo ’78PS, P: ’11SEAS, ’16PS Robin Puleo P: ’11SEAS, ’16PS Mallory Ratajewski ’09SEAS Barbara Reef P: ’12CC Rodman Reef ’69SEAS, ’78SEAS, P: ’12CC Brandon Schoettler ’07SEAS Mohan Seshadri Ramaswamy ’04SEAS Tanvi Shah ’02SEAS Kay Sheth P: ’20SEAS Samir Sheth P: ’20SEAS James Smith ’90SEAS, ’93SEAS Daniel Snyder ’92SEAS Melvin Soh ’02SEAS Barry Strongin P: ’23SEAS Weijia Sun ’02CC Robert Tarazi ’75SEAS, P: ’14SEAS Andrew Zhiren Tay '09SEAS Nikos Theodosopoulos ’84SEAS, P: ’21SEAS Clement Tong ’01SEAS, ’02SEAS Jessica Tong Stephen Tsang ’98CC, ’05SEAS Jimena Urquidi P: ’14SEAS, ’16SEAS, ’24SEAS Sanjay Verma ’90SEAS John Waldes ’68SEAS, ’71GSAS Teresa Waldes ChunYai Wang ’09SEAS Simin Wang ’02SEAS Yanli Wang P: ’24SEAS Earl Watkins P: ’25SEAS Gretchen Watkins P: ’25SEAS Linda Weissman P: ’17SEAS Steven Weissman P: ’17SEAS Laura Whitman P: ’23SEAS Laiyan Wong ’85SEAS, P: ’20CC, ’21SEAS Eric Wu ’98SEAS Noreen Wu ’93SEAS, P: ’24CC, ’26CC Jy Kei Yip ’11SEAS, ’19GSAPP John Young Xin Zhai P: ’25SEAS Lijuan Zhou P: ’20SEAS Meng Zhou ’06SEAS, ’07SEAS |
Vanguard: $2,500 to $4,999
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Michael Abramowitz ’71SEAS |
Monica Karo P: ’18SEAS Richard Karo P: ’18SEAS Jason Kim ’98SEAS Samuel Kim ’98SEAS Frederick Korz ’93SEAS, ’94SEAS Eric Kreutzer ’79SEAS Laura Kung ’99CC, ’06BUS Peter Kung ’99SEAS Winny Kuo Michael Kurinets ’93SEAS James Lam ’07SEAS Costantino Lanza ’76SEAS, ’77SEAS Ida Lanza ’78GSAS Demetrios Lappas ’68SEAS, ’70SEAS, ’75SEAS Alyssa Lee ’18CC Kai Lee ’92SEAS Alexander Leuca Daniel Li ’91SEAS Huei-Hsu Li ’00SEAS Kai-Min Lin '98SEAS Sarah Lin P: ’98SEAS, ’01SEAS, ’05SEAS Tau Lin P: ’98SEAS, ’01SEAS, ’05SEAS Annabel Liu ’96SEAS Hongyi Liu ’17SEAS Jialiang Liu ’10SEAS Lanford Liu ’86SEAS, P: ’20CC Louis Liu ’95SEAS, ’98SEAS Xin Liu ’96GSAS, ’98GSAS Rumaasha Maasha ’94SEAS Bea Maidana Mi Mao P: ’22SEAS Anton Marchuk ’00SEAS Joe Mathai ’00SEAS Ankur Mathur ’89SEAS, ’91SEAS Melissa McInerney ’02SEAS, ’05SEAS Amar Mehta ’99SEAS Xiaochun Mei ’94SEAS, P: ’24CC Raymond Messer ’70SEAS, ’75SEAS Richard Miller ’78SEAS Barbara Mladinov Linda Najim ’87SEAS Juwa Nguy ’95CC Michael O'Brien P: ’19SEAS, ’23SEAS Michelle O'Brien P: ’19SEAS, ’23SEAS Elaine Park P: ’18CC, ’20SEAS, ’23CC Samuel Park ’83SEAS, P: ’18CC, ’20SEAS, ’23CC Chuen-Foon Parsont Henry Parsont ’52CC, ’53SEAS Luke Pelessone ’18SEAS, ’21SEAS |
Marc Pelessone ’16SEAS, ’17SEAS Jih-Ping Peng P: ’20SEAS Rafat Pirzada ’85SEAS Shirley Qiu ’94SEAS, P: ’26CC Harvey Rubin ’65SEAS, ’66SEAS, ’70SEAS Roland Saam ’68SEAS Alfred Seymour-Jones ’53SEAS, ’58SEAS Carol Seymour-Jones George Sgouros ’84SEAS Nirav Shah ’03SEAS Brendan Shanahan ’06SEAS Yang Shao ’93GS, P: ’26CC Shinye Shiu Anthony Sifonios ’01SEAS Joshua Simons ’06BUS Pamela Simons ’04SEAS Steven Skalak ’80BUS Daniel Solender ’87CC Tony Strauss ’02SEAS Kaiwei Sun ’08SEAS Tin Yeung Sze ’06SEAS Mikila Thompson ’98BC Wayne Thompson ’97SEAS Melissa Tian ’93BUS, P: ’18CC Zhong Tian P: ’18CC Edward Tom ’95SEAS, ’01BUS Andreas Typaldos ’69SEAS Carolyn Wan P: ’20SEAS Fong Wan ’84SEAS, P: ’20SEAS Fred Wang ’95SEAS Jie Wang P: ’22SEAS Kelly Wang ’95BC Elizabeth Wedemeyer P: ’12SEAS Pamela Weisberg P: ’22SEAS Lynne Whitman ’87SEAS Alan Willner ’84SEAS, ’88SEAS, P: ’20SEAS, ’21SEAS, ’22SEAS, ’25PS, ’25SEAS Michelle Willner ’91GSAS, ’94SOA, P: ’20SEAS, ’21SEAS, ’22SEAS, ’25PS, ’25SEAS Aaron Wininger ’94SEAS Meiliang Wu ’05SEAS, ’06SEAS Qingjun Xiao ’95SEAS, ’98SEAS Yu Xiao ’13SEAS Steven Xi Matthew Yang ’89SEAS Xiangdong Yu ’94SEAS, ’96SEAS Michael Zetlin ’82SEAS Liqin Zhou ’08SEAS |
Pioneer: $1,000 to $2,499
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Azrul Abdulhalim ’97SEAS |
Stephanie Ho P: ’16SEAS, ’18SEAS |
Kevin Roach ’77SEAS, ’78BUS, ’81SEAS |
If you have any inquiries, or if you believe an error was made, please email engineeringfund@columbia.edu.
Benefits
Dean’s Leadership Society members receive access to quarterly society communications, exclusive event invitations, and more opportunities throughout the year to recognize their generosity and the direct impact it has on students, faculty, and innovation at Columbia Engineering.