Industrial Advisory Board

The Industrial Advisory Board Members are leading figures in the San Diego electronics and high-tech industry. The Industrial Advisory board provides critical strategic guidance to the ECE Department on its educational and research missions.

Current Members

Ryan Aguinaldo, Operating Unit Manager, Disruptive Mission Concepts, Northrop Grumman

Nick Colsey, VP of Sony Electronics, Sony

Mark Pierpoint, Vice President of Strategic Innovation and Partnerships, Keysight Technologies

Nevena Rakuljic, Head of SD Design Center, Analog Devices

Thomas Schuelke, President, Fraunhofer

John Smee, Senior VP Engineering, Global Head of Wireless Research, Qualcomm Inc.

Esin Terzioglu, Vice President of Hardware Tech, Apple

Jiang Zhu, Technical Director/Principal Scientist of Wireless Technology, Meta

 Emeritus Members

Rohit Gaikwad, Senior Director of Engineering at Broadcom

Susie Hartzog, Department Head for Communications and Networks, NAVWARSYSCOM

Ho-Cheol Kim, Program Director at IBM Research

Gary Lyons, Vice President, Software Engineering at Sony Electronics Inc.

Philippe Marchand, Sr. Vice President of Franchise Operations at Samumed, LLC

Anton Monk, Sr. Vice President Strategy, Cohere Technologies

Michael Perry, Vice President, Reconnaissance Systems Group, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Ake Persson

Rostislav Rokitski, Staff Systems Engineer, Cymer

Drew Senyei MD, Chairman, NeoSeq Ltd.

Donald Spencer, Visiting Scientist at Salk Institute, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory