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. 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. 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, and the Program Director of the MS in Artificial Intelligence program. 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, 2019, and 2020.

Heidi Livingston Eisips is an adjunct faculty member in both the Interdisciplinary Engineering and Marketing & Business Analytics departments at SJSU. Ms. Eisips teaches Engineering Communications, Data Analytics, Advanced Statistics, and Marketing. She has worked as a high tech marketing strategist with Fortune 100’s, start-ups, and mid-size companies, across a variety of industries, including enterprise software, mobile, biopharma, ed tech, telecommunications, and more. An experienced lecturer and facilitator, Ms. Eisips’ research focus is on data ethics, algorithmic bias, student success, and exploring the intersection between technology and student voice. Ms. Eisips is currently pursuing her doctorate in higher ed leadership at SJSU.

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.

Dr. Indumathi (Indu) Jeyachandran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at San Jose State University. Dr. Jeyachandran received her PhD in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Utah, preceded by her masters in Remote Sensing & GIS from Anna University, India. Dr. Jeyachandran is a LEED Accredited Professional with specialization in Building design and Construction. She was awarded the Green Talents award (in 2010) for outstanding scientists in the field of sustainable development by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Her past research has been focused on quantifying the impacts of various urban landscape development patterns on water cycle, sensible and latent heat fluxes, urban air temperature, and energy usage. Her research domain is sustainable urban infrastructure planning using remote sensing, GIS, modeling, and observation techniques.

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.

Dr. Fariah Mahzabeen is an Assistant Professor at the Aviation and Technology Department. Her focus will be teaching courses in the Computer Network System Management specialization, and developing research in the areas of Sensors, Wireless and Networks for digital health applications. Her research interests are building interdisciplinary technologies and fostering a collaborative research environment. Before this, Dr. Mahzabeen was working at Google and Verily Life Science, after completing her Ph.D. and postdoc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Her teaching philosophy is: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” – W.B. Yeats. Fariah enjoys learning about arts and culture and loves painting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Laura Sullivan-Green is a Professor and Department Chair in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at San José State University. She teaches in the areas of Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, and Forensic Engineering. Her research interests include forensic engineering education, STEM education pedagogy, and incorporating general education themes into engineering education. Laura serves on the SJSU Academic Senate as the chair of the Instruction and Student Affairs committee and a member of the Executive Committee. She is also a long-time participant in the Forensic Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, where she is a member of the Executive Committee and the Education Committee.

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. 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.