Instructors

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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Abizar A Lakdawalla

VP., Product Development, Apton Biosystems
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Aditi Sapre

Director of Biostatistics, Organon
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Ajay K Mittal

Senior Software Engineer, SCIF
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Ajay K Baranwal

Dtr, Ctr for Deep Learning in Electronics Manufacturing | Chair, AI Program
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Ajit A 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 S 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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Anita Balaraman

Founder & CEO, Epixego
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Arun Saha

Software Engineer & Computer Scientist, Cisco
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Arvind Vidyarthi

Sr. Dtr., Silicon Design Implementation/Methodology, Intel | Board Chair
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Ashkan Hashemi

Signal/Power Integrity Engineer, Amazon Lab126
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Audrey A Blumeneau

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

Design Assurance Manger, Apple
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Avnish Aggarwal

Independent Technology Consultant
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Becky Xu Hua Fu

Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF Medical Center
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Benjamin Ting

Principal Engineer, Microsoft
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Bharat (Bill) C 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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Briana K Ghan

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

Partner, Alliance Solutions LLC | Chair, Supply Chain Management Program
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Chad G Miller

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Cheryl M Palladino

Inclusion Training Specialist, Santa Clara County Office of Education
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Chinnu Pittapally

Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing Research Engineer, Raytheon
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Clarisa A Tate

Director of Regulatory Affairs, USA & Canada, Ypsomed USA
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Claudio A Sanchez

ESL Teacher
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Craig A Harrison

Professional Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, Coach, Expressions of Excellence
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Craig Coombs

President, Coombs Medical Device Consulting
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Danesh Forouhari

Senior Software Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, Khan Academy,
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Daniel Ayala

Course Developer/Instructor
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Darin L Matthews

Chief Procurement Officer, California Polytechnic State University
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Darryl A. León

Director, Software Portfolio Strategy, Agilent Technologies
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David A West

Senior Director of Medical Writing, Gilead Sciences
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David Bakhtnia

Certified Technical and Professional Consultant
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David G Kern

Principal and Founder, K2 Regulatory Consulting
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David Rines

SRE Architect, Duo
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David Wachenschwanz

Senior Associate, SmartOrg
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Deanna Mouser

Employment and Labor Lawyer/ Founder, Mouser Law Firm
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Diana Black Kennedy

Educational Therapist, Speaker, Author
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Dianne V 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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Edison Fong

RF Engineer and Analog Engineer, Consultant
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Edward James Rozhon

Program Chair | Retired Sr. Manager, Clinical Operations, Genentech
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Edward T 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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Eric C Heilmann

Senior Consultant, Technical Program Management, Dell Technologies
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Eric Dorf

Senior UX Designer, Google
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Erin Berg

Educational Specialist in Private Practice
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Farhan Shahab

Senior Director, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, Intuity Medical
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Frank M Mangini

Instructor | Program Advisor
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Gary Wallichs

Sr. Principal Eng/FPGA Product Architect, Intel
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Gerald P Shabe

President, Advance Research Associates
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Gilbert P Garcia

Independent Contractor
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Guido Bordignon

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

Principal Engineer, CDK Global
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Hien C Luu

Senior Engineering Manager, DoorDash
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Hinkmond Wong

Principal Software Engineer
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Holly C 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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Irv D Kalb

Technology Author | Instructor
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James Kempf

Senior Consultant, Kempf and Associates
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James S Dinwiddie

TESOL Instructor | Program Chair
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Janani Rangarajan

Statistical Data Analyst, Gilead Sciences | Program Chair
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Jasmina Topalovic

English Language Development Program Coordinator and Teacher
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Jay Vaishnav

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Jeaneen C Wallis

Consultant | Instructor
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Jeanette Smith

Creative Dtr., former owner, Wild Horse Design | Research Coord., Stanford
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Jennifer Bean

English Instructor
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Jesse Anne Gillispie

Teacher
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Jessica Roth

Teacher, Mentor, Curriculum Developer, Academic Coach
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Jignesh Shah

Senior Principal Physical Design Engineer, SIMA.ai
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Jill A Hosmer-Jolley

MBA Faculty: Human Capital, DEI, ESG, CSR, HR, OB, Service Learning; & more
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Joanna Mapel

FPGA Engineer
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John R Fleming

Founder / Director, Developmental Learning Solutions
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Joon Kim

Sr Director, Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, Keck Graduate Institute
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Joseph Meyer

Senior Natural Language Processing Researcher, Erudit AI
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Judy A Lacroix

Talent Management & Development | Leadership & Organization Development
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Juergen Kienhoefer

Managing Partner, AIRcable LLC
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Julius F Schillinger

Senior Advisor to CEO, Kyo
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Jumar T Balacy

User Experience Designer, Amazon Lab126
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Kalyan Rapolu

Principal Engineer, DuPont Silicon Valley Tech
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Karim N Sajwani

Executive Director Clinical Operations at Telios Pharma
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Kathleen M Atkinson

Human Factors Consultant
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Kavitha Velusamy

Senior VP of Engineering, Robust.AI
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Kiran Gulati

Principal Medical Device Consultant / Exemplar Medical Device Lead Auditor
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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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Leon J Bezdikian

Vice President / Consultant - Human Resources
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Linda S Gunther

HR Consultant/ Author/ Instructor
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Lisa Yen

Director of Regulatory and Quality, Alembic LLC
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Luis Calero

Chair | Conversational UX Designer, Centene Corp.
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Ly-Huong T Pham

Educator, Business, and Technology Executive
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Lynne Mariam Goldfarb

Chief Executive Educator, Doctors of Education | Consultant
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Maitjian L Welke

Co-Founder and Co-Owner, CMIT Solutions
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Malkiat Singh Sandhu

College Instructor
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Mandar M Munishwar

Formal Verification Engineer, Google
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Marc J. Friedman

Senior Consultant/Partner Affiliate McMillanDoolittle
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Marco F Rosa

HR Exec Consultant & Coach | Search Consultant
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Marilson B Campos

Senior Staff Engineer - ML Platform, Apixio
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Mark Mastandrea

Operations / Fulfillment leader
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Mehrdad Peyvan

Senior Application Manager, Analog Devices
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Melissa Chi Le

Teacher | Program Chair
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Michael A. Wang

Director of Business Development, ISSI Integrated Silicon Solution Inc.
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Michael H Savod

Adjunct Professor
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Michelle C Rosenaur

Technology Trainer
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Michelle Deneau

Head of Employee Insights and Technology, Adobe
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Mike E Tzamaloukas

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

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ServiceNow
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Mohammad Naveed

Senior Director of Engineering, Reltio
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Mohammed Fennich

Business Technology Management, SalesForce.com
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Moshe Gotesman

Agile Senior Program Manager | Agile Coach | Consultant
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Narinder Singh

Pharmacy Director, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
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Nicole L. Sharratt

Vice President of Product Design, Jumio Corp.
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Ninet Moradi

Instructor | Program Chair
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Niranjan Maharajh

Director of Engineering, J&J MedTech
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Oswald A Campesato

Founder, iQuarkt and AI Adjunct Professor
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Paddu N Melanahalli

Sr. Director-Engineering, Enterprise Networking & Cloud, Cisco Systems
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Parthasarathy M Padmanabhan

Data Engineering Lead, 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 A Saunders

Biotechnology Consultant
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Philip H Ziman

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

Business Lawyer | Instructor
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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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Prasanna Vasudevan

Senior Release Engineer, Apple Inc.
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Praveen Krishna

Platform Architect for Audio AI/ML Solutions, Performance & Power, Intel
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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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Rachael M Haven

Assistive Technology Consultant, TechPotential
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Radhika S Grover

Founder, Trainer & Consultant, SPEL Technologies
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Raghav Vinjamuri

Independent Computer Software Professional | Linux Program Chair
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Rajani R Shailender

Vice President, Business Unit Head, Tech Mahindra
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Rajesh Y Pendurkar

Director of Engineering, Capgemini
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Ramin Elahi

Partner Sales Enablement manager, Keysight Technologies
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Ravikumar Nandagopalan

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Rebecca Lee Lovin

Teacher
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Reynold H Lewke

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

Agile Coach/Program Manager Safeway
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Robert Knight

Mathematics and Statistics Professor
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Robert M 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 A Arthur-Asmah

Sr. Manager, Digital Health, Nordic Global
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Sam D Huynh

Principal Member of Technical Staff, AMD
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Samit Mehrotra

Microarchitect, Intel Corp.
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Samuel S 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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Satyen Kansara

Head of Data and Visualization, Illumio
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Shalini Ananda

Machine Learning Specialist | Product Developer | Asst. AI Program Chair
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Sharmila Roy

Special Consultant, Schwab Learning Center | Program Chair
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Shashidhar Sathyanarayana

Founder and CEO, Numeric Insight | Machine Learning Specialist
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Siddartha Punj

Healthcare Data Analysis Consultant
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Sivakumar Mallari

Principle Data Architect, Infoblox
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Sreenivasan Paruthiyil

Research Scientist, UCSF Medical Center
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Stephanie Evans-Wemusa

Director, DEI & Belonging, Mindbody | Advisor, UCSC Ext. HR Management
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Stephen O Hyatt

Engineering Staff, Mattson Technology
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Steve Arnold

Company Owner | Travel Consultant
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Sudhakar Alla

Machine Learning Engineer, ICURO
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Sue Coakley

Consulting Marketing Leader
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Sutanu Ghosh

Staff II Program Manager at VMware
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Teresa M Hardy

Digital Marketer|Web Developer, New Media-Designs
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Teresa R. Chapman

Chief People Officer, Santa Clara Family Health Plan
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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 P Poliquin

President, Soft Computing Technology,
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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 R Mavram

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Vicki L Winters

Owner, V-Link Studio
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Wayne L Fenton

Backend Platform Architect, Upwork
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Xi "Bill" Chen

Senior Software Engineer, Meta
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Yuchung M Wang

Director, Global Academic Program at Digi-Key Electronics
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Yvette Durazo

Principal Consultant, Unitive Consulting