Dr. Feruza Amirkulova joined SJSU as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Fall 2018. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics, and Ph.D. in Techniques (Civil Engineering) from Samarkand State University in 1995 and 2000 correspondingly, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Rutgers University in 2010 and 2014 respectively. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Vassar College from 2015 to 2016. She teaches courses on Dynamic Systems Vibration and Control, Machine Learning and Optimization in Engineering, Deep Learning in Engineering, Rigid Dynamics, Mechanical Vibrations, Stress Analysis, and Advanced Engineering Analysis. Her area of research includes wave propagation and vibrations, multiple scattering, invisibility cloak, super-lenses, metamaterials, Willis materials, sound diffusers, high performance computing, fast recursive and iterative techniques, inverse design, non-convex optimization, and deep learning.

Dr. Thalia Anagnos is the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at San José State University. She is a civil engineer with a focus on earthquake engineering and has focused her research on regional losses from future earthquakes and the risk due to the collapse of older concrete buildings. At SJSU she has taught a range of courses in mechanics, statistics and probability, design, and technical writing. She recently co-authored a sophomore-level engineering textbook that is completely online and incorporates interactive technologies for presenting concepts and assessing student work.

Dr. Patricia Backer has been a faculty member at SJSU since 1990 and held positions as an assistant professor, associate professor, professor, department chair, and director. Before coming to SJSU, she worked as a high school science and mathematics instructor. Her research interests are in STEM education and on factors that influence success in college.

Dr. Maria Chierichetti is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at SJSU. Her research interests involve various aspects of aerospace structural design and vibrations, with particular emphasis on integrating machine learning techniques to the analysis of vibrations. She has published several papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings in the above areas. She is an Amelia Earhart Fellow from Zonta International. Prior to joining SJSU, Maria worked as a Faculty at the University of Cincinnati and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She earned a PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and MS and BS in Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Dr. Fatemeh Davoudi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology at San Jose State University. She teaches research methods in engineering and technology, design of experiment, quality control and continuous improvement through lean six sigma, and coordinates graduate academic advising for the department. Her research interests lie in applied machine learning and predictive modeling of industrial systems, quality management and lean manufacturing, and statistical modeling of industrial occupational incidents for improving safety outcomes and informed decision-making in industrial environments. She leads the Machine Learning & Safety Analytics Lab at the Department of Technology, and supervises graduate students in various projects on machine learning in autonomous systems, artificial intelligence in quality improvement of industrial processes, and applied machine learning in improving transportation safety.

Dr. Winncy Du is the director of Robotics Lab at SJSU. She received her PhD, two MS, and BS degrees from Georgia Tech, West Virginia University, and Jilin University, respectively. She is the sole author of one sensor textbook and co-author of two sensor books. She has received many research grants and has published many journals and peer-reviewed conference papers.

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 and Associate Chair at the Computer Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at SJSU. Her research interests cover the areas of recommender systems and machine learning and, in particular, on social recommender systems, aspect-based recommendations, social network mining, deep learning applications, 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 and 2019.

Stacy Gleixner is the 2020 Women in Engineering conference chair and a Professor in Materials Engineering. She is the former Associate Vice President for Student and Faculty Success at San José State University. She managed support services for faculty and students in Academic Affairs and co-led SJSU’s student success and graduation initiatives. Prior to that, she was the Chief of Staff to SJSU’s President from 2014-2016. Stacy joined SJSU as a professor in Materials Engineering in 1999. She has served as the Associate Chair of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department and Director of San José State’s Microscale Process Engineering Lab. Throughout her career, Stacy has worked on student success issues and supporting women and underrepresented students in STEM. A first generation college student herself, she is passionate about using data and innovative strategies to ensure all students succeed.

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.

Hyeran Jeon is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Engineering Department. Her research interests include reliable and energy efficient through-put processor design, software and hardware interaction, and emerging memory and storage systems design. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 2015. She spent her summer at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and the fall at AMD Research as a research intern in 2012. Before pursuing her Ph.D., she worked as a systems software engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea from 2002 to 2009.

Katy Kao joined the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at SJSU in Fall 2019. 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 microbial adaptation for biotechnology and biomedicine. 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 received her Ph.D. degree from Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington, USA in 2010. She is an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San José State University. Her primary research interests are optimization modeling, computing algorithms, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence and their application in different industry problems.

Dahyun Oh is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Engineering Department at San José State University. Her research focuses on developing new materials for next-generation batteries. Her research group at SJSU is particularly interested in developing material design rules to make safer lithium-ion batteries for diverse applications such as electric vehicles or portable electronics. She received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014 after completing her B.S. in Seoul National University from the same discipline in 2008.

Younghee Park is an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at San José State University and a visiting professor at IBM Research. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2010. She has conducted a broad range of research in security areas, including SDN/NFV security Blockchain, and IoT security. She has worked on several projects supported by NSF and industry including Arista Inc., Nexenta Inc., and VMware Inc. She is a coordinator for the Cybersecurity Certificates program supported by the NIETP. She obtained an award of excellence as a distinguished faculty mentor for the SJSU Student Research Competition in 2017. She received the College of Engineering Research Professor Award, as the Kordestani Endowed Chair from 2016 to 2017.

Dr. Jinny Rhee is currently the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at SJSU. Her research interests include thermal management of electronics and renewable energy technologies, as well as engineering education and student success. She joined SJSU in 2002 as a professor of mechanical engineering. She received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1995.

Liat Rosenfeld is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department at SJSU. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Then she did a post-doctoral fellowship in the Chemical Engineering Department at Stanford University. Professor Rosenfeld’s research activities involve complex fluids and complex fluids interfaces; Interfacial dynamics and rheology, and Microfluidics for next-generation medical, electromechanical and energy applications. Professor Rosenfeld is teaching Transport Phenomena, Unit Operations and Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering.

After working in TRiO pre-college programs, providing support services to first-generation/low-income high school students in the San José community, for over 8 years, Ms. Sanchez-Cruz joined the College of Engineering at San José State University as the Assistant Director for Student Support Programs to support college efforts in areas of retention, graduation and inclusion, especially among underrepresented student populations. In this position, her many roles include: MESA Engineering Program Director, Silicon Valley WiE Conference Manager, college representative to campus-wide Chicanx/Latinx and African American Student Success Task Forces, Administrator of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Scholarship (block) Grant, and Liaison to Engineering affiliated student organizations.

Ms. Sanchez-Cruz received a Masters of Arts Degree in International Service and Leadership (2008) from Roehampton (UK), BA in Global Studies (2005) and BS in Hospitality Management (2003) from San José State University.

Melinda Simon is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at SJSU. She completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine, and subsequently completed post-doctoral work at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Simon’s lab uses microfluidics to produce models of tumors to improve the accuracy of in vitro drug testing and is working to develop vascularized engineered tissue.

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.

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. 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. 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.