Executive Committee

SD Section Officers – 2024

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  (To Be Announced) 2023 Fred Raddatzfred.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 Upkar Dhaliwal upkar@ieee.org
Member-at-Large Gabe Alcala galcala@atecorp.com 
Member-at-Large William Torre wtorre@sbcglobal.net 

Committees

Committee Chair / Vice Chair Email
AES

Stephen Stubberud 

2023 Chair: Kathleen Kramer kramer@sandiego.edu 
AP/CAS/ED/MTT/SSC Jeff Shi  
Broadcast BTS Manuel Guzman  
Communications Upkar Dhaliwal upkar@ieee.org
Computer Upal Mahbub upalmahbub@yahoo.com
Co-Chair Charles Bird cbird998@yahoo.com
Computational Intelligence Doug Evans douglass.evans@sbcglobal.net
Consultants Network David Robie davidleerobie@gmail.com
Consumer Technology (To Be Announced)  
Control Systems Lai Xu xulai366@hotmail.com
EMC Gabriel Alcala galcala@atecorp.com 
Eng Medical Biology Dr. Alvarez  
Electronic Packaging Paragkumar Thadesar  
Industrial Applications Hassan Baklou  
Information Theory Michelle Thompson mountain.michelle@gmail.com
Magnetics Vitaliy Lomakin vlomakin@eng.ucsd.edu
Power Electronics Saeed Manshadi smanshadi@sdsu.edu
Power & Energy Hassan Ghoudjehbaklou

baklou@ieee.org

2023 Chair Fred Raddatz fred.raddatz@qcells.com

Product Safety Engineering Bansi Patel bansipatel50@gmail.com
Photonics Yossef Ehrlichman 2023 ChairDoug Evans douglass.evans@sbcglobal.net
Oceanic Engineering Gregory Laugle gregl@interoceansystems.com
Reliability (To Be Announced) 2023 Chair: Richard Doyle
Robotics & Automation

Chair Sudip Saha

Co-Chair Ananya Mukherjee

 
Signal Processing (To Be Announced) 2023Chair 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 Sadagopan                    kamala@ieee.org 
Women In Engineering (To Be Announced) 2023 ChairTheresa Burke tburke@ieee.org