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Our instructors include pioneers in their fields, inventors, patent holders, internationally sought-after speakers, and authors. They are committed to helping you build your professional skills and carve out a great career.

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Abhay Singh

Silicon Operations and Partnerships, Google
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Abizar Lakdawalla

VP., Product Development, Apton Biosystems
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Aditi Sapre

Director of Biostatistics, Organon
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Ajay Baranwal

Dtr, Ctr for Deep Learning in Electronics Manufacturing | Program Advisor
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Ajit Natarajan

Sr. Software Engineer, Google
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Alan Tsuda

Founder & Global Team Consultant
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Alexander I Alten

Sr. Infrastructure Security Engineer, Zuora
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Alka Jarvis

SEQ Chair | Global SQ Process/Performance Excellence Officer
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Alp Tiritoglu

Principal, UILAB LLC
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Amanda Whalen

Senior Data Sciences Product Leader, Genentech
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Andres Mancera

Silicon Development Manager, Meta
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Anna Heredia

Teacher, Santa Clara County Office of Education
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Anna McDonald

Educational Therapist
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Anup Badhe

Director Digital AdTech, ServiceNow
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Arpana Tiwari

Director of SEO & Organic Search Growth, Eventbrite
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Arvind Vidyarthi

Chair | Sr. Dtr., Silicon Design Implementation & Methodology, Altera
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Audrey A Blumeneau

CVC-OEI Lead Reviewer |Web Design Tech Instructor
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Avinash Varma

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Avnish Aggarwal

Independent Technology Consultant
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Becky Fu

Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF Medical Center
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Benjamin Ting

Principal Engineer, Microsoft
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Bharat (Bill) Kurani

Associate Vice President/Head of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
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Bharat Patel

Director/Technologist in the Programmable Solutions Group, Intel
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Bhawna Dua

MBA, MSEE | Strategic Portfolio and Program Manager
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Bibinaz Pirayesh

Educational Therapist & Founder, www.OneOfOneKids.org
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Bineet Sharma

Director/Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Silicon Valley|Chair/Instructor UCSC SV
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Brian Gadus

Accessibility Specialist/Teacher, Palo Alto Unified School District
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Briana Ghan

Dtr. of Information and Educational Tech, Spreckels Union School District
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Caleb Zhang

Partner, Alliance Solutions LLC
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Cheryl M Palladino

Inclusion Training Specialist, Santa Clara County Office of Education
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Christin Jose

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon
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Clarisa Tate

Director of Regulatory Affairs, USA & Canada, Ypsomed USA
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Craig Coombs

President, Coombs Medical Device Consulting
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Craig Harrison

Professional Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, Coach, Expressions of Excellence
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Danesh Forouhari

Senior Software Engineering Manager
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Darin L Matthews

Chief Procurement Officer, California Polytechnic State University
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Darryl Leon

Director, Software Portfolio Strategy, Agilent Technologies
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David Bakhtnia

Certified Technical and Professional Consultant
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David West

Senior Director of Medical Writing, Gilead Sciences
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Deanna Mouser

Employment and Labor Lawyer/ Founder, Mouser Law Firm
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Deepthi Nair

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Diana Kennedy

Educational Therapist, Speaker, Author
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Dianne Conry

Consultant, Kranz & Associates | Program Chair
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Don Young

Consultant in Clinical Biostatistics
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Dr. Deepthi Nair

Senior Director UCSC Premed Postbaccalaureate Program
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Dr. Hamed Mouseghy

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Durgam Vahia

Product Management Leader, Google
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Edison Fong

RF Engineer and Analog Engineer, Consultant
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Edward Ong

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Power Integrations
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Edwin Mach

Director of Product Management and Head of Product Stream Processing Splunk
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Emiliano Morini

Principal Formal Verification Engineer, NVIDIA
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Eric Dorf

Senior UX Designer, Google
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Eric Heilmann

Senior Consultant, Technical Program Management, Dell Technologies
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Erin Berg

Educational Specialist in Private Practice
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Farhan Shahab

Vice President, Quality and Regulatory, Welldoc
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Gary Wallichs

Principal Engineer, Broadcom Corp
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Gerald P Shabe

President, Advance Research Associates
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Gilbert P Garcia

Independent Contractor
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Gohar Eslami

Molecular Tumor Board Management, Stanford School of Medicine
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Guido Bordignon

Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, UCSC
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Hemil Patel

Principal Engineer, CDK Global
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Hien Luu

Program Chair | Head of Machine Learning Infrastructure, Zoox
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Hinkmond Wong

Principal Software Engineer
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Holly Cornelison Hopla

Learning Designer
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Hong Nguyen-Phuong

Independent Consultant
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Ibrahim Delibalta

Sr. Director of SoC Design at Intel Corp.
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Ioana Dayagi

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Irene Vargas

Head Start Preschool Teacher, Santa Clara County Office of Education
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Irv Kalb

Technology Author | Instructor
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Janani Rangarajan

Statistical Data Analyst, Gilead Sciences
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Jay Vaishnav

Jay Vaishnav, Industry Regulatory Affairs Professional
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Jeaneen Wallis

Consultant | Instructor
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Jeanette Smith

Creative Dtr., former owner, Wild Horse Design | Research Coord., Stanford
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Jeffrey Miller

Technical Lead | Full Stack Developer, Insight Global
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Jesse Anne Gillispie

7th Grade Head Teacher, Peninsula School
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Jessica Roth

Teacher, Mentor, Curriculum Developer, Academic Coach
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Jignesh Shah

Principal STA & CAD Engineer, d-Matrix
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Joanna Mapel

Field Application Engineer, Xilinx/AMD at Avnet
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John Bailey

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John Fleming

Founder / Director, Developmental Learning Solutions
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John Tat

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John Watson

PCB Designer/Engineer | Instructor | Author
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Jon Innes

Principal/Founder, UX Innovation
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Judy Lacroix

Talent Management & Development | Leadership & Organization Development
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Juergen Kienhoefer

Managing Partner, AIRcable LLC
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Jumar T Balacy

Program Advisor | User Experience Designer, Amazon Lab126
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Kalyan Rapolu

Principal Engineer, DuPont Silicon Valley Tech
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Kara Scanlon

Educational Therapist, Disability Specialist, Life Coach
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Karim Sajwani

Program Chair & Executive Director Clinical Operations at Telios Pharma
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Katherine Stephenson

Founder | Principal, Dyad Engineering | Grant Reviewer
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Kathleen Atkinson

Human Factors Consultant
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Kavitha Velusamy

Senior VP of Engineering, Robust.AI
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Keshav Kannan

Verification Lead, Intel Corporation
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Kiran Gulati

Principal Medical Device Consultant / Program Chair
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Kris Hamner

Chief People Officer | CHRO | Consultant
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Kristie Lambert

TESOL Instructor
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Lavanya Aryasomayajula

Principal Engineer, onsemi
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Leena Kadakia

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, RefleXion Medical
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Leon Bezdikian

Vice President / Consultant - Human Resources
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Linda Gunther

HR Consultant/ Author/ Instructor
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Lisa Yen

Director of Regulatory and Quality, Alembic LLC
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Lu Perez

Teacher
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Ly-Huong Pham

Educator, Business, and Technology Executive
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Lynne Goldfarb

Chief Executive Educator, Doctors of Education | Consultant
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Malkiat Sandhu

College Instructor
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Mandar Munishwar

Formal Verification Architect, Intel Data Center and AI Division
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Marc Friedman

Senior Consultant/Partner Affiliate McMillanDoolittle
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Marco Rosa

HR Exec Consultant & Coach | Search Consultant
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Marilson B Campos

Senior Staff Engineer - ML Platform, Apixio
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Maryam Moarefian

Postdoc Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
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Mehrdad Peyvan

Senior Application Manager, Analog Devices
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Melissa C. Campbell

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Melissa Hall

Founder and Principal Consultant, Statera Regulatory Consulting, LLC
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Melissa Le

Teacher
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Michael Savod

Adjunct Professor
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Michael Wang

Director of Business Development, ISSI Integrated Silicon Solution Inc.
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Michelle Carpenter

Executive Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Star Therapeutics
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Michelle Deneau

Senior Director of People Experience and Analytics, Cloudflare
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Michelle Rosenaur

Technology Trainer
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Mike Tzamaloukas

General Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Automotive
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Min Wu

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ServiceNow
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Moshe Gotesman

Principal, Mosgot Consulting
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Narinder Singh

Pharmacy Director, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
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Nicole Sharratt

Chair | Vice President of Product Design, Jumio Corp.
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Niharika Kamat

Head of Clinical Operations
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Ninet Moradi

Instructor | Program Chair | ECE Professional Advisor
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Paddu Melanahalli

Sr. Director-Engineering, Enterprise Networking & Cloud, Cisco Systems
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Parag Bhatt

VP of Engineering, Signature IP Corporation
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Parthasarathy Padmanabhan

Principal Software Engineer, New Relic | Program Chair
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Patrick Lee

Director of Regulatory Affairs, BioCardia, Inc.
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Patrick Reardon

Technical Learning Architect, NetApp | Instructor
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Paul Saunders

Biotechnology Consultant
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Philip Ziman

Program Chair & Instructor | President, Zi-Tech Professional Services
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Phu Pham

Business Lawyer | Instructor
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Pooja Kartik

AAMI Faulty | VP, Quality & Regulatory, Triple Ring Technologies
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Poonam Narula

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Prabhu Raghavan

Consulting VP of Regulatory and Quality for Medical Devices
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Prajakta Badhe

Manager, Product Security at Origami Risk
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Praveen Krishna

Cofounder of an AI Startup | AI Program Chair
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Praveen Kumar

Screening Lead, Atomic AI
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Preetpal Kang

Vice President of Firmware, Sibros
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Purnima J Krishnamurthy

Director, Learning Experience Design, Workday
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Raghav Vinjamuri

Independent Computer Software Professional
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Rajani Shailender

Vice President, Business Unit Head, Tech Mahindra
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Rajesh Pendurkar

Director of Engineering, Capgemini
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Ramin Elahi

Partner Sales Enablement manager, Keysight Technologies
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Ravikumar Nandagopalan

Enterprise Data Architect/Senior Consultant, Cisco
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Reynold H Lewke

Startup CEO Coach and Recruiter | Career and Ironman Coach
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Richard Rondeau

Agile Coach/Program Manager Safeway
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Robert Durstenfeld

Digital Marketing Director, MisssionNEXT
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Robyn F Stone

Leader in STEM Education
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Romi Behbehanian

Sr. Director | Global Scientific Program Director. | BPharm tech
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Ruhina Najem

Professor, Biology
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Ruth Arthur-Asmah

Director of Analytics and Data Services, American University
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Samit Mehrotra

Microarchitect, Intel Corp.
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Samuel Ting

Visual Design Lead, IBM Data & AI
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Sanjay Bhatia

Director of Program Management
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Sara Saatchi

Professor
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Sarah Eminhizer

Dtr, Programs & Workforce Devlpmt, UCSC Coastal Science & Policy Program
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Satyen Kansara

Head of Data and Visualization, Illumio
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Semere Bairu

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Shakila Pothini

Vice President of Engineering, Software, Bio-Rad Laboratories
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Shane Brubaker

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Sharmila Roy

Educational Therapist | Program Chair
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Shashidhar Sathyanarayana

Founder and CEO, Numeric Insight | Machine Learning Specialist
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Shree Laguduva

ASIC Physical Design Engineer, Apple
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Siddartha Punj

Healthcare Data Analysis Consultant
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Sivakumar Mallari

Principle Data Architect, Infoblox
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Soma Bhakta

UX Consultant, Adviser, Mentor
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Sreenivasan Paruthiyil

Research Scientist, UCSF Medical Center
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Sri Srinivasa

Program Management Leader, Tesla
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Stephen Hyatt

Engineering Staff, Mattson Technology
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Sue Coakley

Consulting Marketing Leader
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Sumeet Syal

Sumeet Syal, BS, MBA, Entrepreneur and Tech Executive
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Sutanu Ghosh

Staff II Program Manager at VMware
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Teresa Chapman

Chief People Officer, Santa Clara Family Health Plan
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Theresa Wolf

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Thomas R Pamukcu

CEO, Health Wallet
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Thomas P Moyer

Group Media Director, H&L Partners
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Thomas Poliquin

President, Soft Computing Technology,
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Tiffany Knight

Marketing Communication Consultant, TiffanyMarComm
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Timothy Bombosch

Chair | Project Manager, Technical University of Munich North America
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Tram Nguyen

Organizational Learning & Leadership Development Consultant
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Venkat Mavram

Director of Engineering
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Venkata Duvvuri

Principal Cloud AI Architect, IBM Corp.
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Wayne Fenton

Backend Platform Architect, Upwork
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Xi "Bill" Chen

Senior Software Engineer, Meta
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Yvette Durazo

Principal Consultant, Unitive Consulting
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Zara Hajihashemi

Founder and CEO, Cybele Health