Gary Stephen May (born May 17, 1964) is an American academic and electrical engineer who is the seventh chancellor of the University of California, Davis.
[3] May joined the Georgia Tech ECE faculty in 1991 as a member of the School's microelectronics group.
In 2001, he was named Motorola Foundation Professor, and was appointed associate chair for Faculty Development.
The University of California Board of Regents confirmed Gary S. May as UC Davis chancellor on Feb. 23, 2017.
[5] He leads the most comprehensive campus in the University of California system, with four colleges and six professional schools.
[8][9] The effort launched in November 2020 and included free saliva-based testing for COVID-19 that was open to the UC Davis community and residents of Yolo County.
[10][11] An evaluation of the program by Mathematica found that COVID-19 case counts were reduced by 60 percent in the city of Davis.
He developed nationally recognized programs to attract, mentor and retain underrepresented groups in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
In 2023, May partnered with his mentor to establish the "Professor Emeritus Augustine O. Esogbue and Chancellor Gary May Endowed Award in Engineering Diversity" at UC Davis.
[14] Davis is ranked in the top 10 public universities in the nation according to U.S. News and World Report.
[1] His involvement with Leidos—which frequently works with government agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the National Security Agency, United States Border Patrol, Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and the United States Department of Homeland Security—has prompted criticism from media outlets and students in the Davis community.
Neural network modeling of reactive ion etching using optical emission spectroscopy data.