{"id":1070,"date":"2026-02-18T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/?page_id=1070"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:47:09","slug":"election-results-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/2026\/02\/18\/election-results-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Results 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SD Section Officers – 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Position<\/strong><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nEmail<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chair<\/td>\nUpal Mahbub<\/td>\nupalmahbub@ieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Junior Past Chair<\/td>\nMichelle Thompson<\/td>\nmountain.michelle@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Senior Past Chair<\/td>\nZhensheng Zhang<\/td>\nzhenshengz@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vice Chair of Publicity<\/td>\nMd Nafee Al Islam<\/td>\nmislam@sandiego.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vice Chair of Programs<\/td>\nParagkumar Thadesar<\/td>\npthadesar3@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secretary<\/td>\nLai Xu<\/td>\nxulai366@hotmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Treasurer<\/td>\nHua Zhu<\/td>\nhuazhu@ieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Members at Large
<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Position<\/strong><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nEmail<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nLarry Hamerman<\/td>\nl.hamerman@ieee.org\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nKathleen Kramer<\/td>\nkramer@sandiego.edu\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nLiangping Ma<\/td>\nma<\/span>liangp@yahoo.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nTerry Hache<\/td>\nhache@ieee.org\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nUpkar Dhaliwal<\/td>\nupkar@ieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nGabe Alcala<\/td>\ngalcala@atecorp.com\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nWilliam Torre<\/td>\nwtorre@sbcglobal.net\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Member-at-Large<\/td>\nZhensheng Zhang<\/td>\nzhenshengz@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Chapter Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Chapter<\/strong><\/td>\nChair \/ Vice Chair<\/strong><\/td>\nEmail<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AES<\/td>\nStephen Stubberud\u00a0<\/td>\nscstubberud@ieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AP\/CAS\/ED\/MTT\/SSC<\/td>\nMichelle Thompson \/ Jeff Shi<\/td>\nmountain.michelle@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Broadcast BTS<\/td>\nPaul De La Houssaye<\/td>\nhoussaye@alumni.caltech.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Communications<\/td>\nZhensheng Zhang \/ Dell Kronewitter<\/td>\nzhenshengz@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Computer<\/td>\nPirazh Khorramshahi<\/td>\npirazhkhorramshahi@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Computational Intelligence<\/td>\nMd Nafee Al Islam<\/td>\nmislam@sandiego.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consultants Network<\/td>\n\n

Enrique Monteagudo \/ Michael Bryant<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

enriquem03@yahoo.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consumer Technology<\/td>\nMichelle Thompson<\/td>\nmountain.michelle@gmail.com<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Control Systems<\/td>\nLai Xu<\/td>\nxulai366@hotmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EMC<\/td>\nGabriel Alcala<\/td>\ngalcala@atecorp.com\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eng Medical Biology<\/td>\nSudip Saha<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Electronic Packaging<\/td>\nVaishnav Srinivas<\/td>\nvaishnav.srinivas@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Industrial Applications<\/td>\nVahid Mehr<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Information Theory<\/td>\nPaul Williamson<\/td>\npaul_williamson@sdieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Magnetics<\/td>\nVitaliy Lomakin<\/td>\nvlomakin@eng.ucsd.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Electronics<\/td>\nSaeed Manshadi \/Hassan Ghoudjehbaklou<\/td>\nsmanshadi@sdsu.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power & Energy<\/td>\nHassan Ghoudjehbaklou \/ Saeed Manshadi<\/td>\nbaklou@ieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Product Safety Engineering<\/td>\nBansi Patel<\/td>\nbansipatel50@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Photonics<\/td>\nPaul De La Houssaye<\/td>\nhoussaye@alumni.caltech.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oceanic Engineering<\/td>\n\n

Gregory Laugle \/ Graeme Rae<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

greg_laugle@yahoo.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reliability<\/td>\nCharles Bird<\/td>\ncbird998@yahoo.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robotics & Automation<\/td>\n\n

Upkar Dhaliwal<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

upkar@ieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Signal Processing<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vehicular Technology\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\nLei Sun<\/td>\nleighsun01@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Affinity Group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Group<\/strong><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nEmail<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Life Members<\/td>\nBill Torre \/ John Barnick<\/td>\nwtorre@sbcglobal.net<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women In Engineering<\/td>\nValeri Paul<\/td>\ndrafrisbie@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Young Professionals<\/td>\nAlex Rivera \/ Pablo Olivares<\/td>\nalexriveralara@ieee.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SD Section Officers – 2026 Position Name Email Chair Upal Mahbub upalmahbub@ieee.org Junior Past Chair Michelle Thompson mountain.michelle@gmail.com Senior Past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdieee.org\/sdieee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}