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.

Franz Birkner, President & CEO at Rayspan Corporation

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

Mark Pierpoint, Sr. Vice President Keysight Technologies, President of Ixia Solutions Group

Anton Monk, CTO Space & Commercial Networks/VP Business Development & Strategy, Viasat Inc.

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.

John Smee, Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm Inc.

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