This is a list of people associated with the University of Illinois Chicago in the United States. Note that for earlier alumni, validating attendance is difficult. Before the creation of the Circle Campus, UIC was a two-year institution at Navy Pier. After two years, students continued at the Urbana-Champaign campus. During this period, the Chicago campus was not seen as distinct; thus, records about the first two years of a student's attendance often said nothing about whether those years were completed at Navy Pier. Consequently, some of the below alumni are credited in official biographies as graduating from the "University of Illinois." The alumni listed below for the Navy Pier period are those confirmed to have attended the Navy Pier campus. Notable faculty Bill Ayers, retired Professor of Education; 1960s-era political activist; former member of the domestic terrorism organization Weather Underground; author of a number of books on the teaching profession; active in progressive campaigns for school reform Cynthia Barnes-Boyd, director of the Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships, executive director of the University of Illinois Mile Square Health Center. Clinical associate professor of community health at the UIC College of Nursing, and clinical associate professor of community health sciences at the UIC School of Public Health. Daniel J. Bernstein, professor, Department of Computer Science; author of qmail and djbdns; multiple NSF grant winner and Sloan Foundation fellow; distinguished for his work in the fields of cryptography and computer security Vikas Berry, Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering at UIC; Best known for his research in the area of bionanotechnology, graphene and 2D Materials. William T. Bielby, sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UIC, President of the American Sociological Association from 2002–2003 Jerry Bona, mathematician, professor at UIC math department Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history; specialist on the Chicago school of architecture; best known for his research on the architectural firm of Holabird & Root; commentator on urban sprawl Juan Carlos Campuzano, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Argonne Distinguished Fellow Ananda Chakrabarty, Distinguished professor of microbiology; created the oil-eating bacterium used during the Gulf War; special adviser to the US government and United Nations Marc Culler, mathematician working in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology; known for work on the cyclic surgery theorem, Culler–Vogtmann Outer space, and the A-polynomial of a knot John D'Emilio, professor, department of gender and women's studies, department of history; leading scholar of gay