Henry Samueli ’75, M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’80

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Henry Samueli is co-founder, chairman of the board and chief technical officer of Broadcom Corporation. Broadcom was founded in 1991 and is a global leader in providing semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of high-speed data, high-definition video, voice and audio, at home, in the office and on the go. Samueli is responsible for driving the vision of Broadcom's research and development activities as well as helping coordinate corporate-wide engineering development strategies. Broadcom had revenues of $2.4 billion in 2004 and employed 3,400 people worldwide at year-end.

“Dr. Samueli is an extraordinarily gifted individual,” says Nicolaus Alexopoulos, dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine. “He has proven to be an outstanding academic in teaching, research and service, an outstanding engineer and an outstanding high tech industrialist.”

Since 1985 Samueli has also been a professor in the electrical engineering department at the UCLA, where he has supervised research programs in broadband communications circuits and digital signal processing. He has published more than 100 technical papers in these areas, and he is a named inventor in 28 U.S. patents. He has been on a leave of absence from UCLA since 1995. Samueli has also been a distinguished adjunct professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at UC Irvine since 2003. He was the chief scientist and one of the founders of PairGain Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the digital subscriber line (DSL) industry, and he consulted for PairGain from 1988 to 1994. From 1980 until 1985 he was employed in various engineering management positions in the Electronics and Technology Division of TRW, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of military broadband communications systems.

Samueli serves on the UC President's Board on Science and Innovation and he is co-chair of the UCLA Chancellor's Competitiveness Council. He is on the board of trustees of the UC Irvine Foundation and he is a member of the UC Irvine Chief Executive Roundtable. He is on the industrial advisory boards of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine. In 2000 he was awarded the University of California Presidential Medal, the UC Irvine Medal, and the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science Alumnus of the Year. Samueli was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Samueli, his wife Susan, and their three daughters live in Corona del Mar, Calif. Ms. Samueli is also a UC graduate, with a bachelor of arts in mathematics from UC Berkeley. She is active at UC Irvine, having created the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at UC Irvine's College of Medicine. As a result of Broadcom's success, Susan and Henry Samueli have been active in the philanthropic community and in 2003 and 2004 they were listed among Business Week's 50 Most Generous Philanthropists in the nation.