Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and is affiliated faculty at in the Energy Resources Group and Women & Gender Studies. She served Founding Chair of the Graduate Group in Development Engineering, Education Director at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, Chair of the UC Berkeley Academic Senate and Associate Dean of Engineering. She has supervised 197 MS projects/theses, 66 doctoral dissertations and numerous undergraduate researchers. Agogino has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and has won numerous teaching, mentoring, best paper and research awards. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and has served on a number of committees of the National Academies. She received a Ph.D. from Stanford University, M.S. from UC Berkeley and B.S. from University of New Mexico. Agogino is also CEO of Squishy Robotics Inc., a spin-off of her work on space exploration robots with NASA.