Executive Committee

SD Section Officers – 2023

Position Name Email
Chair Michelle Thompson mountain.michelle@gmail.com
Past Chair Zhensheng Zhang zhenshengz@gmail.com
Past Chair Kathy Hayashi  kathyh@qualcomm.com
Vice Chair of Publicity Fred Raddatz fred.raddatz@qcells.com
Vice Chair of Programs Vaishnav Srinivas  vaishnav.srinivas@gmail.com
Secretary Lai Xu xulai366@hotmail.com
Treasurer Hua Zhu huazhu@ieee.org

Members at Large

  Name Email
Member-at-Large Larry Hamerman l.hamerman@ieee.org 
Member-at-Large Kathleen Kramer kramer@sandiego.edu 
Member-at-Large Liangping Ma maliangp@yahoo.com
Member-at-Large Terry Hache hache@ieee.org 
Member-at-Large Dick Doyle ddoyle@ddoyle.cts.com 
Member-at-Large Gabe Alcala galcala@atecorp.com 
Member-at-Large William Torre wtorre@sbcglobal.net 
Member-at-Large Theresa Burke tburke@ieee.org

Committees

Committee Chair / Vice Chair Email
AES Kathleen Kramer kramer@sandiego.edu 
AP/CAS/ED/MTT/SSC Jeff Shi  
Broadcast BTS    
Communications Upkar Dhaliwal upkar@ieee.org
Computer Upal Mahbub upalmahbub@yahoo.com
Computer Charles Bird cbird998@yahoo.com
Computational Intelligence Doug Evans douglass.evans@sbcglobal.net
Consultants Network David Robie davidleerobie@gmail.com
Consumer Technology    
Control Systems Lai Xu xulai366@hotmail.com
EMC Gabriel Alcala galcala@atecorp.com 
Eng Medical Biology    
Electronic Packaging Paragkumar Thadesar  
Industrial Applications    
Information Theory Michelle Thompson mountain.michelle@gmail.com
Magnetics Vitaliy Lomakin vlomakin@eng.ucsd.edu
Power Electronics Saeed Manshadi smanshadi@sdsu.edu
Power Electronics Hassan Ghoudjehbaklou baklou@ieee.org
Power & Energy Fred Raddatz fred.raddatz@qcells.com
Power & Energy Hassan Ghoudjehbaklou baklou@ieee.org
Product Safety Engineering Bansi Patel bansipatel50@gmail.com
Photonics Doug Evans douglass.evans@sbcglobal.net
Oceanic Engineering    
Reliability Richard Doyle  
Robotics & Automation    
Signal Processing Gerald Gerace GERALD.C.GERACE@leidos.com
Vehicular Technology                        Lei Sun leighsun01@gmail.com

Affinity Group

Group Name Email
Life Member John Kroon johnkroon@earthlink.net
Young Professional Kamala Raghavan Sadagopan
Women In Engineering Theresa Burke tburke@ieee.org