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 Physics and Astronomy Department at Vassar College from 2015 to 2016. She teaches Dynamic Systems Vibration and Control Course. 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.

Valerie Carr is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at SJSU. As a cognitive neuroscientist, Valerie conducts interdisciplinary research involving the application of computer programming to creating experiments and analyzing data. She collaborated with faculty across several departments to help develop SJSU's new minor in Applied Computing for Behavioral and Social Sciences (ACBSS). This minor is designed to develop the programming skills of students in fields such as psychology and economics, equipping them to solve real-world problems in their chosen domains. Valerie currently teaches the first course in the ACBSS minor series, which covers the application of Python to current social science topics, as well as the use of programming in careers such as data analysis, user experience, and econometrics.

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 Jose 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 licensed professional engineer in the state of Maryland.

Dr. Ehrman served as a visiting scientist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Maryland and as a National Science Foundation-sponsored post-doctoral fellow at the Paul. Scherrer Institute, in Switzerland. In 2006, she was named a Fulbright Scholar and visiting associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where she engaged with students and faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering. 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 has published several papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings in the above areas. Dr. Eirinaki received the SJSU distinguished faculty mentor award in 2015 and is the recipient of the 2017 Applied Materials Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Erdogan is an Assistant Professor at San José State University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She received her PhD in Operations Research form North Carolina State University. Previously, she was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University, and visiting assistant professor at University of California. Her research interests are applications of statistical and operations research methods. She builds data-driven models and methods to optimize operations in service and production systems. She also works on building stochastic simulation models for disease progression to find optimal treatment scenarios that would guide public health policy.

Dr. Favaro is an assistant professor in the Aviation Program at SJSU. Her research involves various aspects of risk and safety assessment for autonomous vehicles, such as Unmanned Aerial Systems and self-driving cars. She has authored several journal publications and conference proceedings, and currently serves as technical reviewer for Elsevier's Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Safety Science, and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Systems. She is an Amelia Earhart Fellow, and an awarded Research Professor for the College of Engineering at SJSU. Dr. Favaro serves on the Board of Directors of the Aero Club of Northern California. She is an FAA certified Advanced Ground Instructor, a certified Remote Pilot, and a solo-endorsed pilot. Prior to joining SJSU she earned a PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and MS and BS in Space Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

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.

Hongrui Liu is currently an assistant professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jose State University (SJSU). Her research interests include optimization and statistical modeling, algorithms, data analytics and their applications in supply chain and energy industry.

Dr. Melanie McNeil is a chemical engineering professor at San Jose State University. Her teaching and research span bioprocess engineering, environmental engineering, and materials processing engineering. During her career, she has been significantly involved with women and under-represented minority student development. She has been the faculty advisor for the student group of Society of Women Engineers for over 20 years. In addition, she has extensive curriculum development experience as team leader for the development of the Environmental Health and Safety concentration, and as one of the founding members of the task force that developed the BS and MS biomedical engineering programs at SJSU. She was one of three facilitators who brought the Braven career and leadership accelerator program to SJSU, and incorporated it into the SJSU curriculum.

Dahyun Oh is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Engineering Department at San Jose State University. Her research focuses on developing new materials for next-generation batteries. Her research group at SJSU is particularly interested in building the material design rule to make safe lithium-ion batteries for diverse applications such as electric vehicles, portable electronics, and IoT devices. She received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014.

Dr. Okamoto did her BS at Calvin College and MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She taught at Baylor University for several years before moving to SJSU in 2001. She teaches courses in the thermal sciences and does research in the cooling of electronics and modelling and experimental testing of thermal components. She is very interested in developing new methods to improve student success, and she currently serves as Chair of  the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Younghee Park is an assistant professor in Computer Engineering of San José State University. 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 and IoT security. She has two NSF grants related to Smart City and SDN/NFV. She has worked on four industry projects in SDN/NFV, supported by Arista Inc., Nexenta Inc., and VMware Inc. She is a coordinator for the Cybersecurity Certificates program supported by the NIETP. Since 2016, she has served as Center Executive at the Center for STCCS at SJSU, a multidisciplinary research center in the area of the Smart City. 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.

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.

Birsen Sirkeci is an associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at San José State University (SJSU). Prior to joining SJSU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, CA. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2006. Her research lies in the areas of wireless communications, sensor networks and statistical signal processing.

Mahima Agumbe Suresh joined San Jose 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. Miri VanHoven earned her PhD in Genetics from the University of California San Francisco in Dr. Cori Bargmann’s laboratory, and completed her postdoctoral research at Stanford University in Dr. Kang Shen’s laboratory studying neural circuit formation. She came to San José State University (SJSU) in 2008. Her teaching primarily focuses on genetics, neuroscience, and science communication. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie critical steps in formation of the nervous system and she has been awarded research grants from the NSF and NIH. Dr. VanHoven collaborated with Dr. Sami Khuri, chair of the SJSU Department of Computer Science, to develop a Minor in Bioinformatics and now serves as the program’s advisor. She also collaborated with Dr. Sami Khuri and a multidisciplinary group to develop an MS in Bioinformatics. Dr. VanHoven will serve as a graduate coordinator for the program, and the first student cohort will begin in spring 2019.

Catherine Voss Plaxton is the director of the SJSU Career Center that serves 35,000 students and 10,000 employers. She brings a multidisciplinary professional and academic background with strengths in strategic assessment and planning, human and organization development, and technology integration to scale interventions. In May, she expects to complete her doctorate in educational leadership with research focused on the effects of cognitive bias on student engagement.

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 Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at San Jose State University. Her research interests include robotics, machine learning, and systems and control as applied to cyber-physical systems and 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 Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013.

Juzi Zhao joined SJSU as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. from The George Washington University. Prior to joining SJSU, Juzi worked as a postdoc researcher at University of Massachusetts Lowell and Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). Her research area is networking.