Mahima Agumbe Suresh joined San José State University as an Assistant Professor in August 2018. She received her PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University in December 2015. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Xerox Research Center, India in 2016, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in the 2017-18 academic year. Her research interests include algorithms, protocol design and modeling, and system design for cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things. She has published in several peer reviewed conferences and journals and been a program committee member at several conferences.

Dr. Thalia Anagnos is a former San José State University engineering professor and administrator . She earned her PhD in civil engineering with an emphasis on earthquake engineering from Stanford University. She has focused her research on regional losses from future earthquakes and the risk due to the collapse of older concrete buildings in earthquakes. She has served as the President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the leading non-profit membership organization dedicated to understanding earthquake risk and increasing earthquake resilience in communities worldwide. At SJSU, she taught a range of courses in mechanics, statistics and probability, design, and technical writing.

Debra has over thirty years experience as a Career Coach, Workshop Facilitator/Presenter, Curriculum Designer, Program Developer, and faculty member at SJSU; she’s always looking to network and share her best practices with those seeking to advance their career.

Maria Chierichetti is an Associate Professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering. She received her MS and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and BS and MS from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Her research focuses on the development of data-driven models to analyze structural vibrations. She is also interested in investigating the policies related to safety of transportation systems, both on the ground and in the airspace. She is currently a research associate for the Mineta Transportation Institute. Since joining SJSU, Dr. Chierichetti has been involved in several activities that promote students’ success: she has implemented novel pedagogies in her classes, such as specification grading and mastery learning, she coaches students by implementing active learning strategies in her classes, she mentors engineering faculty to improve their teaching.

Prof. Winncy Du is a professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at San José State University.  She received her PhD and 2nd MS Degree from Georgia Tech and her 1st MS degree from West Virginia University. Her research and teaching interests are robotics, sensors, control, instrumentation and biomedical devices.

Dr. Sheryl Ehrman is the Don Beall Dean of the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San José State University. She previously served as Keystone professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Ehrman received a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from U.C. Santa Barbara and went on to complete a doctoral degree in chemical engineering in the major field of aerosol science and technology and the minor field of atmospheric science at UCLA. She is a fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research.

Dr. Ehrman served as a visiting scientist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Maryland and as a National Science Foundation-sponsored post­doctoral fellow at the Paul. Scherrer Institute, in Switzerland. In 2006, she was named a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She served as a Fulbright Alumni Ambassador from 2013-16.

Dr. Magdalini Eirinaki is a Professor at the Computer Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at SJSU, and the Program Director of the MS in Artificial Intelligence program. Her research interests cover the areas of recommender systems, machine learning, graph mining, generative AI, and personalization. She is the recipient of the 2019 Newnan Brothers Award for Faculty Excellence, the 2017 Applied Materials Award for Excellence in Teaching and received the SJSU distinguished faculty mentor award in 2015, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023.

Dr. Behin Elahi is an Associate Professor at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at SJSU. Her research interests include application of robotics and virtual reality in manufacturing systems, human-robot interaction and collaboration, data mining, optimization of healthcare systems, operations research, decision making algorithms, supply chain optimization, water quality assessments, modeling and simulation of complex systems such as healthcare systems and automated manufacturing systems. She is the recipient of the featured faculty award in research (2020) and honors faculty awards (2018-2020), IEEE Young Engineer of the Year award (2015), The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Award of Excellence (2013), and Dan Christian Memorial Scholarship (2013).

Dr. Erdogan is an Associate Professor at San José State University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She received her PhD in Operations Research from North Carolina State University. Previously, she worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University, and visiting assistant professor at University of California. She teaches analytics, operations research and design of experiments courses. Her research involves building data-driven models and methods to solve problems related to production and service systems, social good and public health.

Lili He is a professor at San José State University, Department of Electrical Engineering. Lili graduated from Nanjing University for BS in Semiconductor Physics. She received her Master and PhD in Electrical Engineering from State University of Buffalo. Her research area is mainly in semi-conductor device. Recent year, her research area is focused more in nano-electronics and solar cell and related systems.

Jorjeta Jetcheva is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at San José State University. Her current areas of research focus are Artificial Intelligence-based Personal Assistants, Natural Language Processing, and Knowledge Management.

Previously, she was the global R&D lead for the Virtual Assistant portfolio of Accenture Operations, where she was responsible for leading a global team conceptualizing, building and deploying Virtual Assistants, AI-Powered Knowledge Platforms, and Agent Assist solutions. Prior to Accenture, she was a Research Scientist and Manager at Fujitsu Laboratories of America (FLA), a Principal Engineer in Itron’s Smart Grid Architecture and Standards team, and the Systems Architect of Bay Area startup Firetide.

Professor Jetcheva received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.A. degree with a double major in Computer Science (summa cum laude) and Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College.

Lin Jiang is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at San José State University. Her research focuses on the biomechanics of human lactation with applications to medical devices that support maternal and child health. Lin’s areas of expertise include mechatronics, robotics, and control systems. She has published many papers in biomedical or robotics journals and international conference proceedings in the above areas. Lin earned a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), a M.S. in control engineering, and a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA).

Katy Kao is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at SJSU. Prior to joining SJSU, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Her work focuses on understanding microbial adaptation for strain development and stress tolerance in human fungal pathogens.  She was awarded the National Research Service Award by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the TEES Young Select Faculty, and several teaching awards, including the Fluor Distinguished Teaching Award and the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for teaching.

Hongrui Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at San José State University. Before joining SJSU in 2017, she accumulated 8 years of experience in the energy management industry. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Liu’s primary research interests encompass optimization modeling, computing algorithms, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on their applications in the supply chain and energy industry.

Dr. Bobbi Makani is the Executive Director of the Career Center at San Jose State University, where she and her team helps students and alumni achieve their professional goals. She also taught at the Lucas College of Business and the University of Silicon Valley, where she chaired the Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department. Bobbi has a rich experience as an entrepreneur, having founded and managed several ventures in food, retail, health, project management, and nonprofits across Asia and the US. She holds two Ph.D.s, one in Digital Online Learning and another in Management. Her research interests include career education and readiness, entrepreneurship, innovation, project-based learning, experiential learning, academic technology, and learning outcomes assessment.

Kelly Masegian is the career counselor liaison to the College of Engineering serving over 5000 undergraduate students. Previously, she worked with the Foothill/DeAnza Internship program at NASA Ames serving as an internship coordinator for 5 years providing career guidance and supervision to up to 125 interns each session. As the mother of four, she is used to a fast-paced environment, and deeply believes in helping students learn to navigate and be proactive in their career planning.

Nicole Okamoto is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Student Success in the College of Engineering at SJSU. She has a BS in Engineering from Calvin College and an MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She taught at Baylor University for several years before joining the ME Department at SJSU in 2001. She served as department chair from 2016-2021 before taking her current role in August 2021. Her research is in thermal systems modelling, HVAC component optimization, and thermal management of electronics, and she is passionate about developing academic programs that will lead to the success of students from a diversity of backgrounds..

Dr. Tina Panontin is a Professor of Practice in the College of Engineering at San José State University. She came to SJSU following a distinguished career at NASA Ames Research Center that included 17 years as Chief Engineer. With her extensive, practical experience in the engineering, development, and management of complex systems, Dr. Panontin supports the Dean and faculty by creating cross-discipline research concepts and strategic partnerships and integrating experiential work within standard curricula. She enjoys working with students, through instruction and advising, and provides them opportunities for internships and networking. Dr. Panontin earned her BSME from Santa Clara University, and her MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, both from Stanford University.

I am an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. Before joining this department in August 2013, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and at Columbia University in New York City in 2011. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2010. I worked at the National Security Research Institute at ETRI in Korea in 2003. I obtained an award of excellence as a distinguished faculty mentor for the SJSU Student Research Competition in 2017. I was selected for the Kordestani Endowed Chair in the College of Engineering in 2016 and 2017 as a distinguished research professor. I also received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the College of Engineering at SJSU in 2018. I am the President and Founder of SVCSI (Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Institute), a non-profit organization in Silicon Valley. I was a visiting professor at IBM Almaden Research starting from July 2019 to August 2020 and I was Vice-chair of IEEE Computer Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter for one year in 2021. My primary research interests are in network and system security. My research has been funded by many local industries and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Birsen Sirkeci is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at San José State University. She received her PhD degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, in 2006. Prior to joining SJSU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. Her main research lies in the areas of wireless communications, sensor networks, statistical signal processing, and machine learning.

Nanci serves on SJSU’s Computer Engineering advisory board. She co-taught a Master’s AR/VR class (CMPE 297), helped launch the AR/VR Club at SJSU, and helps with various related activities on campus.  She also co-founded Xulu Entertainment (a physics-based virtual world and technology company), Smart Machines (a robotics company acquired by Brooks Automation), and ASIC Technology & News (a media company for the custom chip and EDA industry).

Dr. Xiao Su is the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research of the College of Engineering at San José State University. She joined SJSU in Fall 2002 and has served as the Chair of the Computer Engineering Department from 2014 to 2020. Leading the largest department in the college, she has embraced the challenge of explosive surge in student enrollment to grow her faculty team, develop new curricular areas, and enrich the department offerings to teach the state-of-the-art in the fast evolving disciplines.

Dr. Su conducts research in broad areas of distributed systems, multimedia communications, network security, and machine learning. Dr. Su has been a principle or co-principle investigator in numerous grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and IT industry. She was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award.

Dr. Sravani Vadlamani is an Assistant Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at SJSU and teaches courses in transportation engineering. She earned her PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering with an emphasis on transportation engineering from Arizona State University. Her research interests include application of data mining and machine learning to transportation, travel behavior, transportation safety and GIS. She previously worked as an Assistant Professor at Florida Polytechnic University in Data Science & Business Analytics and taught courses in Intelligent Mobility, Smart Cities, Statistics, Data Mining and Capstone. 

Dr. Yun Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at San José State University. Her research interests include biosensors, disease diagnosis, food/water safety, nanotechnology, and genetic study of pathogens and diseases. She received her PhD in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University and MS in Biological Engineering from the University of Arkansas. She worked as a research biochemist at U. S. Food and Drug Administration before joining SJSU.

Dr. Belle Wei served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at California State University, Chico, and as the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering’s Don Beall Dean of Engineering at San José State University (SJSU) for ten years. She is currently SJSUâ’s Carolyn Guidry Chair in Engineering Education and Innovative Learning.

Dr. Wei has been a champion for fostering inclusive excellence, bolstering STEM education, and broadening participation in computing by creating new interdisciplinary computing degree programs. She led the expansion of educational access for historically underrepresented groups, and the development of the Engineering Pathways to Success initiative that brings Project Lead the Way curricula to middle and high schools in the SF/Silicon Valley region.

Dr. Wei chaired the Engineering Deans Council’s Diversity Committee in 2009-2012, and spoke before U.S. Congress in 2006 on innovation, contributing to the 2007 America COMPETES Act.

Wencen Wu is an Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at San José State University. Her research interests include systems and control theory, robotics, and artificial intelligence as applied to intelligent autonomous multi-robot systems. Prior to joining SJSU in Fall 2018, she was an Assistant Professor in the ECSE Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2013–2018. She received her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Olivia Yip is an assistant professor at SJSU in the Civil & Engineering department. She has recently completed her doctorate at UC Berkeley where she used big data analysis tools to describe tidal and seasonal stratification in Lower South San Francisco Bay. In her final year of graduate school, she was an intern for a small, women-owned, San Francisco environmental consulting firm where she worked with city engineers to look into solutions for infrastructure design for a changing climate.